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northcrane Author

Level 1

18 points

How do you pause iCloud Drive from syncing? It is using all of my mobile data!

I want to simply "pause" my iCloud Drive from syncing when I am working on my mobile internet. I am editing PSD files that are about 250 MB each. I'd really rather not sync from my iPhone's mobile broadband. Google Drive and every other cloud storage company offers this. Why is such an innovative company like Apple letting their customers get ripped off by the cell companies... oh wait...

But seriously, thanks in advance to anyone who can tell me how to pause iCloud Drive on my MBP.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Apr 8, 2015 10:49 AM

18 replies

Oct 10, 2016 12:19 AM in response to majd88

Sorry, no, that didn't work for me. Quite urgent as I cannot have any useful Skype/Conference calls with screen sharing and the sync is eating all the outgoing bandwidth of my ADSL connection. Really an oversight on Apple's side.

Feb 16, 2017 5:16 AM in response to newMacbook12'

That's not the point.The question is how topauseandreturntheiCloudsyncingnowand not expectApplewithsolutions forsomethingthatwe don't knowif it will...

bwehman

Level 1

4 points

Mar 18, 2017 8:04 AM in response to majd88

MMMM, this didn't work for me. It's continuing to sync after going through this process.

How do you pause iCloud Drive from syncing? It is using all of my mobile data!