Apple Downgrading iCloud Storage on September 30

Apple is reminding users that their complimentary 20GB of extra storage from the MobileMe transition will be revoked on September 30. Through the years of its cloud-based offerings, Apple has steadily increased the storage level offerings for its users, allowing them more options for distributing storage for various account services including iDisk and e-mail. The storage level for a basic account peaked at 20GB for a free MobileMe account and could be split among its e-mail and iDisk services depending on what the user needed. With the transition to iCloud, Apple reassessed its storage offerings and introduced a new basic storage capacity of 5GB per user.

If you are currently using more than 5GB of storage, Apple will not delete your data if you do not upgrade, but new storage to your iCloud account will be frozen until you remove items to bring your storage levels below the new 5GB limit. This means that not only will you be unable to upload and sync files, but you will also not be able to receive any new e-mail. During this time, iCloud will inform you that you have exceeded your limit and offer links to support documents on how to upgrade or remove items from your iCloud storage.