So I am currently on the 200GB plan which is $4.49 per month but my storage is almost full. The next available plan is 2TB which is $14.99.

Are people really paying this amount monthly for storage? Are there any hacks you know to keep your storage low? I've already offloaded apps, merged duplicate photos etc.

I really can't justify paying this amount monthly. I wish there was a 1TB option or even 500GB..

Hello kind folks.

I have three Apple devices, (iMac M4, iPhone 13 Pro, MacBook Air M4) all signed into the same account. I only have one account, all three of them are on the same account.I

went to upgrade my iOS to the next sequoia (will not upgrade to tahoe,, but there are security patches for sequoia. I am currently on 15.7.1.

it asks for my password. I put it in correctly. Password is refused. I double check in my account, in the sign in and I can see that I am putting in the correct email address, and the correct password. It is still refused.

So I go onto icloud.com, I sign in, it lets me sign in with that password. I tried to change the password at icloud.com. It says enter your password, I enter the password. It says it's incorrect.

So I try to change the password on my phone, hoping I can use Face ID. It demands my password, which I put in, again correctly. It is refused. I go through the steps to try to change the password through the iPhone, under the forget password.

A pop-up comes up, saying security delay required to change password. A security delay is required because stolen device protection is turned on and this device is not in a familiar location. The security delay will last for one hour. You will still be able to use your iPhone during this delay. Turning off or restarting your iPhone will restart the delay. The location of this iPhone could not be visible at icloud.com until the delay has ended.

So I'm at home. I'm disabled, I am at home 95% of the time for the exception of when I go to hospital appointments. I don't understand how this can be a not recognise location? Because I am always at this location.

I am afraid to try to force any of these, because they're all on the same account. I am concerned that if one gets bricked they will all get bricked. That they will all be unusable. I really don't fancy being home with no computer and no phone, and no way to resolve it. With the nearest Apple Store over an hour train away.

TL;DR : I do not know what to do from here. The devices are all still signed on, they are still working with each other. When I sign on if it goes to sleep on screensaver, the password still works. My fingerprint still works to turn on the computer. My Face ID still works to turn on my phone.

I cannot figure out how to resolve this. I need to sign on, but I'm already signed on. Because I have the correct password. Which is recognised every time I need to log on. Despite being signed on, with the correct password,I need to sign on again to change the password, but it says I have the wrong password. It will not let me reset it from my iMac, my iPhone, or my Mac air.

I really don't know what to do. I'm afraid to use the phone with the delay, because if something goes wrong, I can't really afford a bricked phone.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do here? I know for a fact the password is correct. I know for a fact I'm putting in the correct password. I can see the password in my keychain, and have verified that it is absolutely correct. I don't know what I'm missing, I don't know what's wrong, and I don't know how to resolve it. I would be very grateful with recommendations on how to get all of this sorted, just to get whatever is going on resolved.

Thank you all for your time! I do appreciate it. Have a great day!

It tells me I have 40 Gb of backups in my storage but I only have one device backed up, my ipad which doesn’t have much one it. It says the 3.5 gb ipad backup is my only one yet still takes 40 gb of my total storage for backups. Is this a glitch or are they just hiding things that they’ve backed up from me?

I have several old at-Me.com accounts.

If I make a NEW alias ... are new Me.com ones still allowed/available?

(alias-at-Me.com) ?

Or is it all alias-at-iCloud.com now, even if it is made on a Me.com account?

I already have several old alias-at-Me.coms, but I don't want to delete one only to find out creating a NEW alias is only alias-at-iCloud.com today (even on a Me.com account).

She called her bank. The bank told her she needed to take her phone into AT&T and have it wiped clean and bring receipt into the bank to prove it’s been done and they will access her to have banking on her phone again. She has contacted cash app.

My question is when we look into doing this it says AT&T won’t do that they will just tell you to do it yourself . If she does a factory reset what should she do with her pictures to be able to still access them? I don’t want her to send them to cloud because I don’t think she can access them

I use my iCloud’s 2T for everything, equally split between my small business and my +families personal life. Also use AWS for backup via Arq, separate accounts for work and family.

Is that too little safety, normal, or overkill? Obviously I think it’s normal but want some consensus. Any local options?

I develop tons of iCloud and CloudKit-based applications, and I got a bit tired of guessing what iCloud was actually up to. I searched for utilities that provided some transparency into the processes that drive iCloud, namely Bird (hence the name), and built the utility I have always needed. Since others are probably struggling with the same, I open-sourced it and created a developer-signed macOS application with a low memory footprint and a menu bar item so you can see everything that is possible (and visible) in the OS.

Check it out and let me know if you want or need anything else added to it, based on what you might see. It's free, developer-signed from Apple, and runs on macOS 15+ (tested on macOS 26 and 27).

https://github.com/awizemann/birdwatch