Is this for real?

[tikay]

I had an e-mail purporting to be from iCloud today. It looks genuine, & the sender addy was "noreply@insidecloud.com"

The e-Mail footer contains the expected corporate sig & splurge.....

iCloud is a service provided by Apple. My Apple ID | Support | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2014 iTunes S.à r.l. 31-33, rue Sainte Zithe, L-2763 Luxembourg. All rights reser

The content was as follows.....

Dear Tony Kendall,

Your iCloud storage is almost full. You are currently using 4.9 GB of 5 GB total storage.

Your iCloud storage is used for iCloud Mail and to automatically back up the most important data on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch — the photos and videos in your Camera Roll, device settings, app data, messages, and more. Learn more about iCloud Backup >

iCloud-enabled apps, like Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, use iCloud storage to automatically keep your documents — and other important data used by your apps — up to date across your devices. Learn more about Documents in the Cloud >

To continue using these iCloud features without interruption, you can purchase additional storage on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:
1    Go to Settings and tap iCloud.
2    Tap Storage & Backup.
3    Tap Buy More Storage and choose an upgrade.

Or you can reduce the amount of iCloud storage you’re using. Learn how to manage your iCloud storage >

Note: If you exceed your storage plan, your devices will no longer back up to iCloud, iCloud-enabled apps will no longer update documents and data between your devices, and you will no longer be able to send or receive messages with your iCloud email address, (xxxxxxx)@icloud.com.

The iCloud Team

More follows.....

[kinboshi]

That's a fair bit of train porn.

[tikay]

I do not use an iCloud e-mail address. For reasons I can't recall, I signed up to an iCloud e mail address a year ago. I've never sent or received an e-Mail on it.

I do not own an iPhone or iPod.

I do have an iPad. It has about 3 Apps on it, a "Message" service (rather like MSN) which I use to converse with one person regularly, including sending & receiving "domestic" videos, stuff we have filmed ourselves on our iPads, vids from Vegas, that sort of thing. Guess there may be 20 or 30 of these videos on the "Message" thing & on the Camera Roll.

I have a Camera Roll with a few hundred photos, most of which I could delete if need be. The Camera Roll also includes those 20 or to videos I "shot" on my iPad.   

I do not knowingly store any documents on iCloud.

I don't knowingly use iCloud for anything else.

If I just delete those photos, videos, & "Messages", is that it, job done?

[kinboshi]

I don't use iCloud, but I think 5GB of free storage sounds about right. Gmail/Google accounts offer similar, and beyond that you have to pay.

Not sure I want to know what the domestic videos are, but if you have a lot of them, and they're off decent length and quality, then they could take up a few GB.

[tikay]

I don't use iCloud, but I think 5GB of free storage sounds about right. Gmail/Google accounts offer similar, and beyond that you have to pay.

Not sure I want to know what the domestic videos are, but if you have a lot of them, and they're off decent length and quality, then they could take up a few GB.

Nothing remotely interesting in those "domestic" vids, I just used the term to sort of say they were not proper You Tube jobbies.

They are mostly between 30 seconds & a minute long, & were all taken on the iPad. So no, not "decent" quality & not very long. As it happens, 8 or 10 of them were "shot" & sent or received in the last few days. 

[kinboshi]

Without email, loads of images or a fair few videos - I can't see how you'd get close to the 5GB limit.  Have you stored any other files there, maybe some files are being backed up to the iCloud account automatically?

[tikay]

Without email, loads of images or a fair few videos - I can't see how you'd get close to the 5GB limit.  Have you stored any other files there, maybe some files are being backed up to the iCloud account automatically?

I have not knowingly stored any files there, no.

Is there not a little dial thing somewhere on the iPad which would tell me the aggregate total of kilobytes or whatever the Vids & Photos add up to on there?

[DMorgan]

On an iPhone you can view your hard drive storage under Settings > General > Usage

I assume its the same for an iPad, usually is

[tikay]

On an iPhone you can view your hard drive storage under Settings > General > Usage

I assume its the same for an iPad, usually is

Ahh, thanks Dan, found it.

It confirms the e-Mail is genuine, "Total Storage 5.0GB, Available 92.6MB".

I shall delete the Messages, & most of the Photos & Videos, then see what that does to my available capacity.

[clementine]

or just set it so that it doesn't back-up anything in the icloud