What files do users typically store using icloud?
To solve this problem, you must first know what is in the icloud. In general, users in the 5GB icloud storage space, the stored files can be roughly divided into four categories, including: photos, backups, documents and data, mail.
1. Photo
After iOS8.1, Apple provides the "icloud Photo Gallery" feature, This feature uploads the entire image library in the system to icloud. and provides two storage modes, one for both local and icloud, and one for icloud storage originals, while the iphone stores optimized low-resolution preview photos. The latter can greatly reduce the space occupied by the photo, while the user will be back to download the original file from the icloud, while the lower right corner of the photo will also have a circular download progress prompts.
2, Backup
This is one of the most important features of using icloud, because it gets rid of cable sync that had to be connected to itunes before, but in a real-time way to keep the data from being lost.
All personal information in the iOS device that uses the same account is stored in the backup. In layman's terms, it means that no matter what generation of iphone or ipad you open icloud and log into this account, all the information in that device will be backed up.
The setup information for icloud backup is very comprehensive, including which wallpaper is, which application is forbidden, and even the brightness of the screen you are adjusting will be recorded. So that when you recover from icloud, the phone is the same as the device that provided the backup.
Second, the photo gallery is backed up in icloud. Photo Gallery After iOS8.1 is the aforementioned "icloud Photo Gallery", because in the previous version because there is no perfect photo backup scheme, so the backup will have the "Camera film" option, and now the two have become one.
The last is the application of the data, this part of the data include your microblog, micro-letter landing information, chat record, set options and so on. That is, all the personal data you use in your download application will be included.
This is mainly the document data stored by software such as pages, Numbers and imovie. After having the icloud drive, this kind of manuscript data is no longer only serves as the data backup in the application, but the independent file facilitates the editing and the use. Of course, this use can be implemented across the platform real-time editing, real-time synchronization.
4, Mail
This is not much to say, including all the mailbox information you have set up, as well as drafts, classifications or flag information.
Well, after you know these, we can achieve targeted savings icloud space. Then you can then open the second page and learn how to make the most of the 5GB free space that Apple offers!
1. Replace "icloud Photo Gallery" with third party cloud storage software
This is the most space to occupy the content, for a little more like to take a picture of the user, save a 4-5GB photos as usual, let alone have children's parents, which are full of children grow up every moment, then I am afraid that 128GB capacity of the iphone 6 is not rich.
Therefore, the first step must be to close the icloud photo gallery. So after this feature is closed, once the device is stolen, isn't all the photos gone?
Of course not, there are too many Third-party cloud storage solutions, can provide free space for easy backup, and the default is in the WiFi environment automatically backup, you do not feel it exists, but the photos have been successfully uploaded. More importantly, such spaces can be raised free of charge in various forms, and it is not difficult to get a few terabytes of free space.
So solve the problem of photo synchronization, also save the photos occupy icloud space trouble.
2. Close partial Application Data backup
Enter set-icloud-storage space-manage storage space, where you can see the detailed catalog ICloud occupies. Among them, the backup will have each of the iOS device names that have been backed up, and click in to see the various applications that have been backed up to occupy space details.
Of course, there is a need to close some of the content, which is exactly back to the icloud redundant parts. For example, the map file of the navigation of the gold, the system will take offline map as the application data for backup, you know this is a 1-2GB file. Such files can be downloaded at any time and will not be permanently lost, and there is absolutely no need to back up.
Or a video project file edited by imovie, or a part of the player imported video files, also occupy the space of the "large". and whether these need to back up on their own needs, of course, I think for micro-letter data, these are insignificant, so all closed.
Through these two ways, should be able to effectively help your icloud thin body, of course, if still not enough, can only wayward one, spend money to upgrade storage space, the current 6 yuan per month to rise to 20gb,25 yuan monthly rise to 200gb,68 yuan per month up to 500GB, 138 Dollar tyrants can be used in 1TB space.