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iCloud Storage Full Yet Again? Here's a Fast Fix

CNET · Jul 3, 2026, 12:01 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

Key takeaways

  • I don't know when I became this way, but I took 196 photos and videos of a fireworks show this week.
  • The easiest way out of this digital hoarder conundrum is to pay Apple for more i Cloud storage -- because moving and deleting large swaths of media can be quite a hassle on the i Phone.
  • So this week I hope you'll join me in celebrating freedom from those annoying "iCloud Storage Full" alerts.

I don't know when I became this way, but I took 196 photos and videos of a fireworks show this week. I don't know why I take so many pics. I also never take time to delete any of them. So of course my i Cloud storage is always full.

The easiest way out of this digital hoarder conundrum is to pay Apple for more i Cloud storage -- because moving and deleting large swaths of media can be quite a hassle on the i Phone. But I can't just keep adding more storage forever!

So this week I hope you'll join me in celebrating freedom from those annoying "iCloud Storage Full" alerts. In today's episode of One More Thing, which you can watch embedded below, I walk through how to clear out your biggest video files first, along with other junk files that are easy to delete:

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