How to upgrade your iCloud account to iCloud+

Erik Eckel

Unveiled with iOS/iPadOS 15, iCloud+ is an enhanced upgrade to iCloud that adds privateness and information options specified arsenic iCloud Private Relay and Hide My Email. But to get iCloud+ connected your iPhone oregon iPad, you request to beryllium connected a paid iCloud program oregon an Apple One subscription. Here's however to upgrade your relationship to person the benefits of iCloud+.

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iCloud+ offers respective options worthy considering. iCloud Private Relay replaces your regular IP code with an anonymous 1 based connected your portion to forestall companies from monitoring your online activities. Hide My Email lets you usage a random and anonymous Apple ID to registry with apps and websites arsenic a mode to spare your regular code from much spam. And Custom Email Domain allows you to nonstop and person iCloud Mail utilizing your ain domain sanction alternatively of an icloud.com address.

To upgrade you to iCloud+, Apple offers a fewer antithetic tiers for a paid iCloud subscription. Choose among 50GB of information for 99 cents a month, 200GB for $2.99 a period and 2TB for $9.99 a month.

An Apple One subscription besides includes iCloud+. For $14.95 a month, an idiosyncratic Apple One program provides Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and iCloud+ with 50GB of storage. For $19.95 a month, a household program kicks successful the aforesaid 4 services but ups the iCloud+ retention to 200GB. And for $29.95 per month, a Premier program adds News+ and Fitness+ and increases the iCloud+ retention to 2TB.

Individual retention connected iCloud+

You tin leap to iCloud+ either earlier oregon aft you upgrade to iOS/iPadOS 15 oregon higher. To power from your existent escaped iCloud program via your iPhone oregon iPad, spell to Settings and pat your sanction astatine the apical of the screen. Select iCloud and past pat the enactment for Manage Storage. If you're inactive connected the escaped plan, your existent retention volition amusement 5GB arsenic the magnitude of data. Tap the enactment for Change Storage Plan (Figure A).

Figure A

At the adjacent screen, take your preferred plan—50GB, 200GB, oregon 2TB—and past pat Buy. Tap the Subscribe fastener and authenticate your acquisition with Touch ID, Face ID, oregon your password. The acquisition goes done and a connection tells you that your retention has been upgraded (Figure B).

Figure B

Family Storage connected iCloud+

If you're portion of an Apple Family sharing account, you tin stock an iCloud+ subscription with up to 5 different household members. To usage iCloud+ arsenic portion of an existing household account, spell to the iCloud surface nether Settings connected your iPhone oregon iPad. Tap the introduction for Manage Storage and past prime the enactment for Use Family Storage. You're instantly added to the iCloud+ program nether your household retention (Figure C).

Figure C

Apple One

If you privation to usage different Apple services specified arsenic Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple News+, past an Apple One subscription is different option. To effort this retired via your device, spell to Settings and pat your name. At the adjacent screen, prime Subscriptions. Tap the enactment for Get Apple One. Choose Individual, Family oregon Premier. The second 2 connection the archetypal period free. Then pat the Subscribe oregon Start Free Trial fastener (Figure D).

Figure D

After you've upgraded to a paid iCloud program either straight oregon done Apple One, you'll spot the options for Private Relay (Beta) and Hide My Email successful the iCloud Settings screen. Tap each enactment and travel the steps to activate it (Figure E).

Figure E

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