Open your web browser on your computer. Go to the Apple Sign-In and Security settings page and sign in. Select App-Specific Passwords. If this is your first time creating one, click Generate an ...

Once you start uploading files and folders, that free storage fills up fast. Before you go ahead and pay for extra room, try clearing out some of the junk in your cloud account.

To use iCloud+ as part of an existing family account, go to the iCloud screen under Settings on your iPhone or iPad. Tap the entry for Manage Storage and then select the option for Use Family Storage.

The idea is that you use up much less space on your machine, and you can still get your files whenever you need them—they just take a couple of seconds to open as they're downloaded from the cloud.

The iCloud storage that comes with your Apple account can be useful for offloading large files on your iPhone, but even the cloud can get full. Here are some techniques to ease the cloud pressure.