![]() ![]() ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]() You can also follow me on: Twitter and Linkedin For the last ten years I have worked as an Affiliate and Consultant to many different business and start ups, my key skill set being online marketing, on page monetisation, landing page optimisation and traffic generation, if you would like to hire me or discuss your current project please reach out to me here. As the publishing and printing sector wained I moved into Internet Marketing and in 2006 co-founded which grew to become one the top 200 visited sites in the US (according to Quantcast), at its peak receiving over 15 million visits per month. I've been a passionate evangelist for Apple and the Macintosh throughout my working life, my first love was a Quadra 605 working with a small creative agency in the south of Norfolk UK in the mid 1990's, I later progressed to other roles in other Macintosh dominated industries, first as a Senior graphic designer at a small printing company and then a production manager at Guardian Media Group. ![]() So, don’t despair next time you’re informed that your iPhone was unable to backup due to lack of space on your iCloud account! Try these tips, and you’ll find yourself with space and to spare. The easiest way to deal with this is simply to delete an article once you’ve read it – that way, you’ll keep the amount of storage used for Safari manageable. iCloud keeps a backup of these, however, and depending on how many articles you have saved, size can quickly add up. One last thing: a feature introduced in iOS 6 was the offline Reading List, enabling users to save web pages in easy-to-read text form for later perusal, even when they might not have a wifi or cellular signal. In fact, deleting backup on this app won’t even mean we lose this information: it’ll stay on the iPhone, but simply be unavailable, should I wish to restore from this backup on a new device. By turning off backup for these individual apps, you’ll find yourself saving a hefty chunk of space in total: Shazam alone takes up a whole 5.9mb, although it’s saved nothing but songs we’ve identified through the app in the past. There may be some in there that don’t contain any information important enough to save: Shazam, for instance, or iPlayer. Within your backup, you’ll find the list of apps whose contents is being saved to iCloud. If you’re worried about losing your photos, you can either enable Photo Stream, Apple’s excellent picture sharing network which will store your 1,000 most recent photos in the cloud separate to your iCloud account while downloading them on any iDevice or Mac you’ve linked up, or go the old-fashioned route: connect your iDevice to your Mac via a cable every so often to copy the pictures across this way. To stop this storage hog, simply move the slider for pictures from ‘on’ to ‘off’ under the backup options. If you’re anything like us, this will mean that Camera Roll is taking up a lot of your 5gb allowance. By default, a backup will save each and every one of the pictures and videos on your iDevice to the cloud, ready to re-download, should your device get wiped, or should you decide to copy your backup over to a new device. When it comes to hogging virtual space, pictures are the main culprit. While accessing documents in this way won’t be as slick as opening them straight from the Pages app, it may be a sacrifice you’re willing to make to stay under the 5gb level in iCloud. This app, when downloaded to a Mac, allows the user to save documents to a folder which uploads its contents to the cloud, ready to be accessed via the Dropbox app for iPhone or iPad. However, there are many cloud-based alternatives which can solve your problem while leaving your iCloud storage unaffected, the best of which is probably Dropbox. If you don’t back up, or if it’s a priority to be able to access all documents at all times from any iDevice, saving to the cloud may be a matter of necessity. However, if you back up your computer regularly using Time Machine or a non-Apple solution, you shouldn’t need to worry about documents being lost, and so could consider local saves. If you’re running OS X 10.7 or higher (Lion or Mountain Lion), iWork will allow you to store your documents in the cloud. To check whether you need all of the documents you’re currently saving online, it’s best to head to your Mac. This page of the settings menu also informs the user of how much content is being saved to iCloud from Pages, Numbers and Keynote. ![]()
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