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Q: ICloud keeps telling me "not enough storage", I have turned off everything except contacts, notes and find my phone and it still says it is full.  Anyone else have this problem?

ICloud keeps telling me "not enough storage", I have turned off everything except contacts, notes and find my phone and it still says it is full.  Anyone else have this problem, anyone know how to fix this?

iPhone 5c, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Jan 28, 2014 7:29 AM

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  • by randers4,

    randers4 randers4 Jan 28, 2014 7:34 AM in response to mychelle66
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    Jan 28, 2014 7:34 AM in response to mychelle66

    Turning off synced data doesn't remove the data from iCloud.  You would still have to delete the data from iCloud and in order to free up space in your account.  This article provides suggestions for reducing your iCloud storage: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847.

  • by naghiro,

    naghiro naghiro Jan 28, 2014 8:29 AM in response to mychelle66
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    Jan 28, 2014 8:29 AM in response to mychelle66

    Confirm that you have no big icloud backups from your iOS devices

     

    @icloud.com email is a big scorer too.

     

    if you have many, many emails on icloud.com.

    you probably should delete some of them or forward to a different email address you have. and afterwards delete those mails to have storage released

     

    iCloud Storage depends mainly from iCloud Backup of iOS Backups, Mail Storage, Documents in the iCloud

     

    contacts, calendars and notes are mostly not that big for storage as you might think.

     

    music, apps and purchased items from itunes / appstore are not involved for calculation of icloud storage and they are not included in iCloud Backups of your iOS Devices.