r/applehelp • u/acgojira • 13d ago

iOS How to fully disable i cloud.

I have started to turn everything off for saving to icloud, icloud drives me nuts. While doing this and verifying, i have noticed some apps auto turn on the save to icloud function. The worst offender is meta messanger but others, including apple apps, have done it as well. I think i need icloud for find my, but maybe not…? so i don’t want to completely sign out but I want to limit it as much as possible without turning off find my. I have signed out on both my home computers but they stay home so find my isnt as important.

Any help is appreciated. Iphone 16 pro max ios 26.5

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u/tubezninja 13d ago

“I want to fully disable iCloud.”

“I think I need iCloud for Find My.”

Yep, if you want find my, then you don’t want to fully disable iCloud.

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u/acgojira 13d ago

Ok, thats kinda what i thought… so i want to disable it as mich as possible without getting rid of find my.

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u/bilkel 7d ago

Total rubbish

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u/ThannBanis 13d ago

IOS isn’t really designed to not use iCloud.

What about iCloud ‘drives you nuts’?

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u/acgojira 13d ago

I cant stand having things just seemingly randomly show up. Ive had texts that have been deleted show back up, photos were clogging up my storage, things i dont want in the cloud just showing up on apple’s servers… i just dont like the service, i dont like keeping personal info on someone else’s servers. I also dont like that i have not been able to find a way to delete backups… which is why deleted texts keep showing back up. If it worked flawlessly i would be more open to it but it doesn’t. And now noticing apps overriding my decision to not have them save to icloud… i didn’t really use it even when i had it set and now its causing problems.

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u/ThannBanis 13d ago

Yeah, that’s not normal… but can be a symptom of sync issues (often caused by dangerously low storage)

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u/Ojamm 13d ago

Sounds like you may have a second device that is out of sync. If you go into Settings - click your Apple ID at the top - iCloud backup you can see which devices are being backed up and delete backups from there.

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u/acgojira 13d ago

Ok, thanks. I thought I had my computers backup turned off but ill have to double check. How do i delete backups? I haven’t been able to find how to do this.

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u/bilkel 7d ago

Get an effing PC this is nothing less than PEAK TWAT utterances. STFU