According to this Apple iCloud Support page:
Answer from bsf on Stack ExchangeIf you downgrade your storage plan and your content exceeds the storage you have available, new photos and videos won't upload to iCloud Photo Library and your devices will stop backing up to iCloud.
iCloud Drive and iCloud-enabled apps won’t update across your devices, and you won't be able to send or receive messages with your iCloud email address.
To use iCloud after exceeding your available storage, remove backups, photos, documents, or email messages you don’t need. You can access photos, videos, and documents for 30 days after you delete or disable iCloud Photo Library and iCloud Drive.
According to this Apple iCloud Support page:
If you downgrade your storage plan and your content exceeds the storage you have available, new photos and videos won't upload to iCloud Photo Library and your devices will stop backing up to iCloud.
iCloud Drive and iCloud-enabled apps won’t update across your devices, and you won't be able to send or receive messages with your iCloud email address.
To use iCloud after exceeding your available storage, remove backups, photos, documents, or email messages you don’t need. You can access photos, videos, and documents for 30 days after you delete or disable iCloud Photo Library and iCloud Drive.
This is the message Apple emailed when my 50 GB storage was cancelled.
You have used up all of your 5 GB of free iCloud storage.
All the photos, videos and documents that are currently in iCloud will still be stored safely, but any new ones will not be saved to there. Soon, you will not be able to send or receive emails with your iCloud email address….
I’m going to upgrade my free plan soon, but I was wondering what would happen to my photos if I stopped paying. Storing photos on the cloud is the main reason I’m upgrading, so it’s important for me to know beforehand.
I searched on Google and I’ve found two main consequences if I stopped paying:
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You have 30 days to renew your plan or download your information/photos. After 30 days, if you haven’t paid, everything will be deleted.
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Nothing will be deleted. Everything will be safely stored on the cloud, but new content will remain on your device without the option to sync it.
Which if these is correct? Or maybe there’s a third alternative I haven’t found?
Thank you in advance ☺️
Can you cancel iCloud storage at any time?
Do I have to pay for iCloud storage every month?
Does canceling iCloud storage delete photos?
No. Your data won't be deleted automatically when you downgrade your plan. You'd be given a grace period to download your data. Also, the storage decrease takes effect after your current monthly or annual subscription ends.
If you have more data than the space available in your iCloud storage, the excess data won't sync to the iCloud servers and you'd be alerted that you are out of space.
There is a grace period for you to move the data off iCloud! The change goes into effect at the end of the current payment penalty. But if you don't remove it by then it will be lost at some point.
first of all, here are some key points of information that you'll have to remember in my case
i'm currently using the 200gb icloud storage plan, but i plan to downgrade soon (within around a week) in order to not have it required to be paid monthly (due to financial reasons)
my iphone only has 64 gigabytes of storage; it is a pre-paid phone (which cannot be returned) and i do not have any other devices that are able to fully download all of my icloud storage
if i were to downgrade my icloud storage from 200gb back to the default 5gb, what will happen to the rest of the data that exceeds it? (keep in mind that my iphone only has 64 gigabytes, and none of my devices have enough storage to download all of my icloud storage) if my photos won't sync to my icloud storage (uploading), will it still load the full-resolution images (downloading) when i view an image on my iphone that has been shrunken down to the optimized size?
i read an article that said:
"if you stop paying for your icloud storage, you will receive a pop-up on your phone telling you to pay. if you refuse, you will have 30 days to get your data from the cloud before it's erased permanently. if in those 30 days you decide to keep paying, all your stuff will remain there."
i have questions about this:
there are 2 routes that are in question:the route where you simply do not pay for icloud storage and do not downgrade (which has already been specified that one will have 30 days to download all of the data before it gets wiped)
the route where you downgrade your icloud storage to the default 5gb (which it is unknown to me what will happen to the data that exceeds 5gb) to not have to pay monthly anymore
for the second route, i wish to know what will happen to the data that exceeds 5gb once i downgrade my icloud storage; what will happen to my backups? will my photos still be read from icloud storage (for full resolution)?
tl;dr: i have very valuable data on my icloud storage that, due to financial reasons, cannot be kept paid monthly, so i plan to downgrade my icloud storage, and i can't download all of my icloud storage to any of my devices because they don't have enough storage either, so i ask 3 questions:what will happen to the data that exceeds the default 5gb?
what will happen to my data backups?
will my photos still be read from icloud storage (meaning that will the optimized saved photos on my iphone still read the full resolution videos and images placed on icloud)?
Hello, everybody,
I'm currently currently over a 5 GB limit on the 200 GB plan, but I want to cancel my subscription. However, I want to keep all the photos that are backed up in my camera roll like they were before I upgraded (when I was over the 5gb limit and they were NOT being backed up and I was being notified about it.)
Will they stay in my camera roll when I cancel my subscription, or will they be gone locally too?
Just for clarification: all the photos that I care about have been uploaded from my iPhone. If all the photos stay in my camera roll then that's all I care about. They don't need to be backed up to iCloud.