iCloud Drive taking up lots of phone storage

Hi all,


I have an iPhone 11, 128gbs of phone storage and I’m running out.


Most of the storage is used by apps - and iCloud Drive is top of the list with 74GBs. I only have a 50gb iCloud account.


In the storage settings it doesn’t give me any options to reduce the iCloud Drive volume, and in the iCloud Drive app itself I think I’ve only got a few 100MBs of files.


many ideas how to clear this?

Posted on Jun 8, 2023 3:47 AM

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Posted on Jan 25, 2024 3:25 AM

Another tried and tested method:


Go to - Settings- (right on top where your name is there) - click- then iCloud

then you'll see iCloud drive - turn it OFF

  • it will tell you it will delete all items from phone. Its ok. As it will sll be on iCloud


do that and see the difference


later you can switch iCloud Drive ON again

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