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Free up storage space on your Mac

Save space by storing your content in iCloud or using built-in tools to find and remove large or unneeded files.

The Optimized Storage features of your Mac help you save storage space by storing your content in iCloud and making it available on demand:

• When storage space is needed, files, photos, movies, email attachments, and other files that you seldom use are stored in iCloud automatically.
• Each file stays right where you last saved it, and downloads when you open it.
• Files that you’ve used recently remain on your Mac, along with optimized versions of your photos.

If you haven’t yet upgraded to macOS Sierra or later, learn about other ways to free up storage space.

Find out how much storage is available on your Mac

Choose Apple menu  > About This Mac, then click Storage. Each segment of the bar is an estimate of the storage space used by a category of files. Move your pointer over each segment for more detail.

Click the Manage button to open the Storage Management window, pictured below.

Manage storage on your Mac

The Storage Management window offers recommendations for optimizing your storage. If some recommendations are already turned on, you will see fewer recommendations.

Store in iCloud

Click the Store in iCloud button, then choose from these options:

• Desktop and Documents. Store all files from these two locations in iCloud Drive. When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac, so that you can easily work offline. Files stored only in iCloud show a download icon , which you can double-click to download the original file. Learn more about this feature.
• Photos. Store all original, full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud Photos. When storage space is needed, only space-saving (optimized) versions of photos are kept on your Mac. To download the original photo or video, just open it.
• Messages. Store all messages and attachments in iCloud. When storage space is needed, only the messages and attachments you recently opened are kept on your Mac. Learn more about Messages in iCloud.

Storing files in iCloud uses the storage space in your iCloud storage plan. If you reach or exceed your iCloud storage limit, you can either buy more iCloud storage or make more iCloud storage available. iCloud storage starts at 50GB for $0.99 (USD) a month, and you can purchase additional storage directly from your Apple device. Learn more about prices in your region.

Optimize Storage

Click the Optimize button to save space by automatically removing watched movies and TV shows. When storage space is needed, movies or TV shows that you purchased from Apple and already watched are removed from your Mac. Click the download icon next to a movie or TV show to download it again.

Your Mac will also save space by keeping only recent email attachments on this Mac when storage space is needed. You can manually download any attachments at any time by opening the email or attachment, or saving the attachment to your Mac.

Optimizing storage for movies, TV shows, and email attachments doesn’t require iCloud storage space.

Empty Trash Automatically

Empty Trash Automatically permanently deletes files that have been in the Trash for more than 30 days.

Reduce Clutter

Reduce Clutter helps you identify large files and files you might no longer need. Click the Review Files button, then choose any of the file categories in the sidebar, such as Applications, Documents, Music Creation, or Trash.

You can delete the files in some categories directly from this window. Other categories show the total storage space used by the files in each app. You can then open the app and decide whether to delete files from within it.

Where to find the settings for each feature

The button for each recommendation in the Storage Management window affects one or more settings in other apps. You can also control those settings directly within each app.

• If you’re using macOS Catalina or later, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, click Apple ID, then select iCloud in the sidebar: Store in iCloud turns on the Optimize Mac Storage setting on the right. To turn off iCloud Drive entirely, deselect iCloud Drive.
• If you’re using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Options next to iCloud Drive. Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders and Optimize Mac Storage settings.
• In Photos, choose Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud. Store in iCloud selects iCloud Photos and Optimize Mac Storage.
• In Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, then click iMessage. Store in iCloud selects Enable Messages in iCloud.

• If you’re using macOS Catalina or later, open the Apple TV app, choose TV > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Files. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
• In you’re using macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Advanced. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
• In Mail, choose Mail > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Accounts. In the Account Information section on the right, Optimize Storage sets the Download Attachments menu to either Recent or None.

Empty Trash Automatically: From the Finder, choose Finder > Preferences, then click Advanced. Empty Trash Automatically selects “Remove items from the Trash after 30 days.”

Other ways that macOS helps automatically save space

With macOS Sierra or later, your Mac automatically takes these additional steps to save storage space:

• Detects duplicate downloads in Safari, keeping only the most recent version of the download
• Reminds you to delete used app installers
• Removes old fonts, languages, and dictionaries that aren’t being used
• Clears caches, logs, and other unnecessary data when storage space is needed

How to free up storage space manually

Even without using the Optimized Storage features described in this article, you can take other steps to make more storage space available:

• Music, movies, and other media can use a lot of storage space. Learn how to delete music, movies, and TV shows from your device.
• Delete other files that you no longer need by moving them to the Trash, then emptying the Trash. The Downloads folder is good place to look for files that you might no longer need.
• Move files to an external storage device.
• Compress files.
• Delete unneeded email: In the Mail app, choose Mailbox > Erase Junk Mail. If you no longer need the email in your Trash mailbox, choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items.

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Cloud Battery 4+

All Batteries. On All Devices‪.‬

Alan Yan

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Description

Cloud Battery is the solution to a better battery management system.

Cloud Battery keeps all of your Apple device battery levels in one place, available to be seen from any device that shares the same iCloud account.

It’s as simple as downloading Cloud Battery on all your Apple Devices, and it just works.

Cloud Battery provides you with many ways to keep up with the battery levels of your devices. These include Notifications, a Today Widget, the iOS, macOS, and watchOS standalone applications, as well as Watch Complications.

Cloud Battery seamlessly integrates into iCloud for minimal setup and ease of use.

— Convenient Extensions such as a Today Widget, Watch Complications and iOS 14 Widget

— Real-Time Battery Monitoring

— iOS Device Battery Tracking

— iPadOS Device Battery Tracking

— macOS Device Battery Tracking

— watchOS Device Battery Tracking

— Apple Pencil and BLE Battery Tracking

— Magic Mouse/Trackpad/Keyboard Support on macOS

— Siri Shortcuts Integration

— Frequent Refreshing Keeps Batteries Up To Date

— Low battery notifications and unplug notifications

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Ratings and Reviews

Great App Great Potential

This is what I’ve been looking for. It works really well. Really great job! I would like to see a few more options.
1) Ability to adjust the threshold of when a notification is sent for each device. For instance, I should be able to set a notification for my iPhone when it reaches a certain battery level both high and low, ie, I get a notification when my iPhone drains below 40% (user defined) and when it is charged to 80% (user defined)
2) Not sure it’s possible, but track the battery levels of bluetooth connected devices on the Mac, so if I have a wireless keyboard and the battery level is shown in the bluetooth settings, can this app track that device? The battery info is available via bluetooth preferences.
3) Create a Mac Widget so I can remove the icon in the task bar.

Developer Response ,

These are all terrific suggestions and I have thought of them before! For 1, you can do that with the iOS application, so just click into the Mac and there you will see notification sliders for exactly what you described, and this will notify all you devices when these thresholds are crossed. For your second suggestion, I think that’s a great idea and as a keyboard owner myself it is something I will definitely be adding in the future so keep posted 🙂 as for the third suggestion, I just added a big sur widget (same as the iOS 14 one) so u can now use cloud battery without having it open! Thanks so much for the review!

Great App, Love the design, Update issues

Thank you so much for this app, it really does work great in notifying me to charge my laptop.
However, since the last update the BigSur widget has been glitching a lot. It stays stuck to a certain percentage and does not change no matter what I do. I tried:
— Opening the app through the menu bar, resetting the «tracking». Through the menu bar icon I can see the correct percentge, however the widget is still stuck.
— Reinstalling the app (the precentage updated once but then stayed stuck right there).
— I tried restarting my mac multiple times, but that did not change the widget at all.

iOS is working great, no problems with that at all. Hopefully you can find a solution to this issue, it is messing up the notifications.

Otherwise great app, thanks once again for this!

Great concept, poorly executed!

This is a much needed utility, designed around a great concept!

Unfortunately, it actually works so poorly, it provides a false sence of security and if you rely on it’s notifications to prevent you from over-charging your batteries, you will overcharge your batteries for hours, not minutes.

I’ve randomly checked my batteries and found my watch at 100% when I got my initial notification that my watch was at 61%. Upon taking my watch off its charger, I then got another notification that I had exceeded 61%. Some time later, it finally tells me I am at 100%.

From my experience, without this app, I never would have allowed it to charge as long as it would charge while I depended on this app. I suspect, sitting in the background, it doesn’t get updated enough to be of value, but even in the foreground, it lags far behind the actual battery state for any device other than the device the app you are looking at exists on.

I sincerely hope they fix it, or even better, Apple will see the concept and include all airpods and Apple Pencil in the mix with accurate information and LOUD notifcations that don’t depend on currently set volume or DND settings.

But, again, an excellent and much needed concept.

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Mac OS

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Mac OS, operating system (OS) developed by the American computer company Apple Inc. The OS was introduced in 1984 to run the company’s Macintosh line of personal computers (PCs). The Macintosh heralded the era of graphical user interface (GUI) systems, and it inspired Microsoft Corporation to develop its own GUI, the Windows OS.

Apple’s marketing for the introduction of the Macintosh focused heavily on its operating system’s intuitive ease of use. Unlike virtually all other contemporary PCs, the Mac OS (initially designated simply System Software, with a version number appended) was graphically based. Rather than typing commands and directory paths at text prompts, users moved a mouse pointer to visually navigate the Finder—a series of virtual folders and files, represented by icons. Most computer operating systems eventually adopted the GUI model. In the 1980s Apple made an agreement allowing Microsoft to use certain aspects of the Mac interface in early versions of Windows. However, except for a brief period in the 1990s, Mac OS has never been licensed for use with computers made by manufacturers other than Apple.

Later Mac OS releases introduced features such as Internet file sharing, network browsing, and multiple user accounts. In 1996 Apple acquired rival NeXT Computers, which was founded by Steven Jobs after his departure from Apple, and in 2001 the company rolled out Mac OS X, a major redesign based on both the NextStep system and Apple’s most recent OS release. OS X ran on a UNIX kernel (core software code) and offered technical advances such as memory protection and preemptive multitasking, along with a more versatile Finder, an elegant-looking interface called Aqua, and a convenient graphical “Dock” bar for launching frequently used applications. Updates to OS X added features such as automated backups and a “Dashboard” manager for small, handy applications called widgets.

From 2007 Apple unveiled a number of mobile devices that could access the Internet, including the iPhone smartphone and the iPad tablet computer. Apple soon emphasized the ability of OS X to connect with these devices. In 2011 Apple introduced iCloud, a cloud computing service that allowed users to share data among all of their Apple devices, for both OS X and the mobile operating system iOS. Apple added more features allowing connectivity between devices to successive updates of OS X, iOS, and later watchOS (the operating system for the Apple Watch smartwatch). These features included the ability to receive phone calls (made to the iPhone) and the means of quickly sharing data (such as photos and text) among devices.

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