How does iCloud work on the iPhone?

I saved up data on my iCloud and it took up all the space on my iPhone. It's not even letting me take pictures anymore. What's up with that?

On iPhone 4S.

When you activate iCloud on your iphone it stores your content such as pictures, apps, notes, etc remotely, but the disadvantage is when you use up all the space.

I would suggest that you buy more space or control some of your apps from storing everything in the iCloud platform. Keep in mind that if you have your iPad, more than one iPhone, or other apple product sync to the iCloud platform it will eat up all of your space.

Go into your settings and deactivate some of your apps that you hardly ever use from storing content.

Every time that you charge your phone just remember that the iCloud communicate with other apps on your phone which add to the space that as been allotted to you. I would encourage you to do the old fashion method which is to connect to your iTunes account to back up what you already have which will free up space from your iCloud account.

Once you backup your content in iTunes just go into settings and disable some of your apps from automatically storing data in your icloud account.

Following this step.

Step 1: go to setting>iCloud
Step 2: every app that is on turn it "off" that you don't feel a need for it to be stored.

Step 3: I suggest backing up your content on your iTunes account before proceeding with step 1 & 2.

Once you free up some of your apps your iCloud should free up and you should be able to store content again without it freezing up.

Usually apple will send out a notice telling you that your space has reached it's maximum.

Depending on what package you have, apple allot 5GB of storage in the iCloud. What this does is it allows you to connect all your devices to one spot to retrieve or sync data to all your apple products, you may want to disable some devices if you have reach your limit as suggested in your question. Hope my answer gave you a good starting point.

What does the term "cloud" mean?

There has been a lot of buzz in the tech world recently over cloud computing. With Apple announcing its newest initiative iCloud the buzz is growing louder. The ironic part of the recent buzz is that "The Cloud" is a term that most of us have heard, or maybe even used, without fully understanding. Most of us even use Cloud Computing on a daily basis, without ever knowing it.

There are several flavors of cloud computing readily available now. Microsoft has its own cloud (Azure). Amazon has introduced us to its ec2 cloud. Google runs its entire business in a cloud. And Apple is joining the fun with a new way to access media, in the cloud!

If you truly wish to understand cloud computing one way might be to deepen your understanding of network theory, server virtualization, software as a service, and other technical sounding buzzwords. Let's skip that for now, though, and concentrate on a laymen understanding for this post. At its essence, the term "cloud" simply refers to a collection of computers that are networked together, or the Internet, as we like to call it. Cloud computing is merely an evolution of the mid-90's world wide web vision that most people are taught about in school.

Why did the term cloud get applied here? For many network engineers who diagrammed how their company's computers connected to outside networks in the late 90's, the cloud became the illustration of the unknown path data took when it traversed the web to other external computers. The cloud came to represent everything outside a known domain in a network diagram.

Now, think about it in terms of your home computer. It is available for you to use when you need it; however, most of the day it sits idle waiting for you to get home from work, or back from the store, or wake up in the middle of the night with a Facebook craving. What if you could anonymously "rent" your computer to others who didn't have one, but only during these times when you are not using it? Guess what, you can. That is the fundamental concept of cloud computing. Rather than purchase an entire computer for their networking needs; companies now have the ability to "rent" the use of community computers based on their needs. And the concept birthed the term "cloud computing."

Of course there's much more to the actual workings of cloud computing, but no need to bore everybody with technical details. For now, enjoy the 10, 000 feet view, from the clouds.

Reference link for the term "cloud"
www.r2integrated.com/… /cloud-computi