Manage your photo and video storage

Store your photos and videos in iCloud

By default, your photos and videos are stored on your device in their original, high-resolution version. This means that they use a lot of space on your iPhone and iPad. With iCloud Photos, you can make more space available on your device and still have access to your entire full-resolution collection wherever you go.

Get started with iCloud Photos:

  1. Tap Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos.

  2. Tap Sync this iPhone. In iOS 15 or earlier, tap to turn on iCloud Photos.

  3. Select Optimize iPhone Storage to save space on your device.

SafeBoot

Start up in safe mode

Find out whether you're using a Mac with Apple silicon, then follow the appropriate steps.

If you're using a Mac with Apple silicon

  1. Shut down your Mac.

  2. Press and hold the power button on your Mac. As you continue to hold the power button, your Mac turns on and loads startup options. When you see Options, release the power button.

  3. Select your startup disk. It's named Macintosh HD, unless you changed its name.

  4. Press and hold the Shift key, then click the “Continue in Safe Mode” button below your startup disk.

  5. Log in to your Mac. You might be asked to log in again.

If you're using an Intel-based Mac

If you're not using a Mac with Apple silicon, you're using an Intel-based Mac.

  1. Turn on or restart your Mac, then immediately press and hold the Shift key as your Mac starts up.

  2. Release the key when you see the login window, then log in to your Mac.

  3. You might be asked to log in again. On either the first or second login window, you should see ”Safe Boot” in the upper-right corner of the window. If you can't start up in safe mode, make sure that your Mac isn't using a firmware password.

Allow booting from external media (T2 Security Chip)

About Startup Security Utility on a Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip

Use Startup Security Utility to make sure that your Mac always starts up from your designated startup disk, and always from a legitimate, trusted operating system.

If you're using a Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip, Startup Security Utility offers three features to help secure your Mac against unauthorized access: Firmware password protection, Secure Boot, and the ability to set allowed boot media.

If you're using a Mac with Apple silicon, learn how to change security settings on a Mac with Apple silicon.

Open Startup Security Utility

  1. Turn on your Mac, then press and hold Command (⌘)-R immediately after you see the Apple logo. Your Mac starts up from macOS Recovery.

  2. When you're asked to select a user you know the password for, select the user, click Next, then enter their administrator password.

  3. When you see the macOS utilities window, choose Utilities > Startup Security Utility from the menu bar.

  4. When you're asked to authenticate, click Enter macOS Password, then choose an administrator account and enter its password.

Set allowed boot media

Use this feature to control whether your Mac can start up from external or removable media. The default, most secure setting is to disallow it. If you attempt to boot from such media and you get a warning that your security settings do not allow it, you can change the setting in Startup Security Utility.

Your Mac doesn't support booting from network volumes, whether or not you allow booting from external or removable media.

Published Date: April 15, 2024