

If you don’t want to delete quite as many emails, choose a specific cutoff like 15 MB and remove all emails with attachments greater than that size. Now, you can either delete all of the emails that have attachments in just a few clicks. Open up iCloud Mail and select View, then Sort by Attachments. iCloud Mail includes a simple way to view emails with attachments sorted by size. Thankfully, you don’t need to indiscriminately erase all of your emails from storage. Just as for messages, attachments in emails can take up a huge amount of space-especially if your iCloud account is storing several years’ worth of emails. Select See All Photos, and then select all the photos you’d like to delete. From a conversation, tap the contact’s name and then the info button. Then expand them when you need to use them again.ĭid you empty the Trash? When you move a file to the Trash, its storage space doesn't become available until you empty the Trash.Deleting conversations can eliminate messages from your iCloud account (Image credit: Future)Īlternatively, you can choose to only remove attachments, which tend to take up a disproportionate amount of storage space. If you don't want to delete certain files, you might be able to save space by compressing them.

Delete files in your Downloads folder. Open this folder from the Dock, or by choosing Go > Downloads from the menu bar in the Finder.Delete music, movies, podcasts, or other media, especially if it's media that you can stream or download again as needed.

You can also delete files that you no longer need.

If you have another storage device, such as an external drive connected to your Mac, you can move files to that device. Media files such as photos and videos can use a lot of storage space, so you can take steps such as these:
