Activate ICloud Storage upgrade notification removal issues

“Well, you clearly did not understand my statement/question. None of the options you gave applies.”

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iCloud Update Bug:

Well, if it’s not iCloud Drive, then Photos takes up a lot of space. Apple’s not going to badger you for more storage, and being an oh’ so commonly reported issue in these forums, I’d say it’s a glitch. So, report it:

Report this to Apple:

Do your Part: Provide Apple with feedback on this, reporting it as a bug.  Apple may not get back to you directly, but the more feedback they receive on this, the more they will know what issues reside, and what needs to be fixed. These are just user-to-user forums. Your are NOT speaking with Apple here. Apple reads these forums in their own will and time. No one here has access to your account (and that is a GOOD thing, BTW).

1. Go Here: Feedback - iCloud - Apple
2. Select: "Storage" for the "Feedback Type"
3. Comment: that this all started after installing an update. Include the URL of this thread.
4. Proceed from there as necessary

so it's certainly server side with it. I see enough reports now it should end up going away itself once they can find it.

"Activate ICloud Storage upgrade notification removal issues: Activate iCloud Storage upgrade notification won’t go away even though I am only using 1.2GB in the cloud"

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Ridding of this Update Prompt:

I. Turn this Off, Temporarily:

1. Tap: Settings
2. Tap: [your name]
3. Tap: iCloud
4. Tap: Manage Plan (in iCloud+ Features pane
5. Tap: Activate iCloud Storage
6. Tap: Continue
7. Tap: Not Now at the very bottom
8. Scroll Down: the the bottom
9. Tap: Not Now

Screenshot:

then...

II. Clear iCloud Storage:

Seems your iCloud Storage is almost full. So, see about clearing your iCloud Drive, extracting it first. You'd perform this extract using a computer. From there, Force Restart your iPhone.

A. Remove VPNs:

Have any VPNs turned on? If so, remove them from your device, or just turn them off, if required for school or work.

B. Download All of iCloud Drive:

If you wanted to, you could download all of iCloud Drive, and then trash what is in there. Perform my User Tip: Getting a Quick and Direct "iCloud Drive-to-External Hard Drive" Download - User Tip. All would be saved, and would then be removed. You would then use Finder to browse all of you downloaded iCloud Drive data.

C. How to Upgrade iCloud+ Storage:

Go Here: Buy iCloud+ or Upgrade your Current Storage Plan - Apple Support

“so it's certainly server side with it. I see enough reports now it should end up going away itself once they can find it.”

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You can go away with arrogance all you want. But, report it, and you’ll be sure enough to come back sooner. Be courteous when reporting this, or Apple will just trash it.

Well, you clearly did not understand my statement/question. None of the options you gave applies. The only data in my icloud account is my phone back-up which is only essential items for to restore my phone to operational status should something happen. All personal data on my phone is backed up on a physical external drive. Hence I am only using 1.2 GB of 5GB apple provides, thus I should not be receiving this notification. I am receiving it because Apple is doing a money grab, so they need to give an option to remove it

Same here. It appears to be a server issue. My fitness and health app are also experiencing bugs. My last three workouts are no longer showing and my step counts are off. My health keeps asking me to update my information as well. I’m sure that Apple is working on it.

"Activate iCloud Storage: How to clear activate iCloud storage in settings? It's already activated. Can't seem to get rid of it."

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Millions of Participants Upgrading:

Many are performing this upgrade at this moment, and there is only so much that Apple's server can handle. So Apple's servers may be busy.

I’m having the same issue, iPhone 14 Pro Max iOS 27.

It must be either a bug or poor attempt to get people subscribing to Apple One:

And before another useful idiot suggests that it’s because my iCloud storage is either full:

The Apple One advert annoys me too, it would not save someone who only subscribes to Apple Music and iCloud+ 2TB anything, it’s £15 a month extra 🤦🏻‍♂️

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What you call arrogance, I call annoyance at getting an almost word for word response from you as I got from Apple when I got online support (a tech rep who just read info off a screen but had no serious tech knowledge) from them. They were just as unhelpful so I decided to post here to see if anyone else had same issue but had a proper fix. Did not need a step-by-step tutorial not a link to your guide.

“[…]They were just as unhelpful so I decided to post here to see if anyone else had same issue but had a proper fix. Did not need a step-by-step tutorial not a link to your guide.”

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All the more reason to provide feedback.

There’s hundreds of views of everyone’s posts containing complaints of this issue.

As for Successful Complaints:

The Liquid Glass effect of iOS25 was released just over a year ago(2025), and had Apple not have heard of complaints, they wouldn’t have made a fix, or lost continents. Making the change to Liquid Glass effect was the result of all the complaints on ASC for a change to Liquid Glass effect: How to Disable Liquid Glass in iOS 26? - Apple Community

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That is conjecture on your part tbh, Liquid Glass was widely panned in the press and media so it is not factual to state that the revisions made to Liquid Glass was as a result purely of users submitting feedback forms.

Just started tonight for me too. They must have screwed up something.

As I have not done the upgrade yet, then this should not affect me…but alas it does meaning your comment had no bearing on the issue. But I appreciate your input

The notification has disappeared for me today.

I didn’t need to do anything, it just vanished all on its own. o_O