iCloud Dividing iCloud+ Storage

[Danorak81]

Hi all,

I have a Family Apple+ subscription. We have the 2TB iCloud storage bundled with it, but at the moment, I share it with nobody. I'd be happy to divide it up to allow others to have access , but it doesn't appear there is a way to do it: or is there? Whenever I share the storage with everybody, it just seems to give them access to the whole 2TB. What I don't want to do is end up being responsible for managing all 2TB, having people being able to access my files etc. If I could divide it into 4 x 500GB so each of us has 500GB each, that would be great.

Is there a way to do it, or is this an all or nothing scenario?
TIA,
Dan

 

[Puonti]

You can't manually portion the iCloud storage space per family member; instead, every person you add to your iCloud "family" gets shared access to the pool - in your case 2 TB. If you use 1 TB, then the others have 1 TB left to share.

Also, no one can see anyone else's iCloud Drive files, unless they manually share something. What you do see is how much iCloud Drive space each family member is using, in case you need to ask someone to make space available for others.

 

[Danorak81]

Ah, I see: thank you for the reply. What I didn't want to happen was for it to become a dumping ground where everyone just chucks in whatever and it all ends up as big mess. I hate things being unorganised, which this had the potential to be: if its all personal then I'm ok with that. I have a couple of iPhone backups on there plus some sensitive documents, and I don't want anyone else in the family group having access to those.

Thanks for the info