Experts Say This Is The One Common iCloud Mistake That Always Zaps Up Your Storage
March 6, 2025 by Lisa Cupido
iCloud offers iPhone users a number of benefits. For starters, you can use the cloud storage system to backup data on your device so that it has a safe place to be stored. From there, you can then delete this data from your phone so that you free up storage space on your device — and how many of us can say we don’t need extra storage? iCloud can store pretty much any file — from documents and spreadsheets to videos and photos. You can then use it to collaborate with others on the same file, such as a presentation.
Most importantly, perhaps, Apple uses end-to-end encryption to ensure that iCloud is private and safe, so you can feel good about where you are storing your files.
However, if you are continuing to make one very common mistake, using iCloud could be costing you storage space, and not saving it for you. Because so many iPhone users look for cloud storage to unload their media files, which often take up the most storage space, this mistake could be one you are making, too.