<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div dir="auto">I don't know about iCloud Plus but I know that on Google Drive items in your trash still count against your overall storage limit so look at your trash and see if you can empty several gigabytes of data out of the trash can perhaps that'll change the result and look in your app or on the web and see how much it tells you your free storage space is don't just rely on an email message.<br></div><div dir="auto"><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Drew King<br><br></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On October 25, 2023 9:38:25 AM EDT, Michael Alexander via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks for all your responses.<div><br></div><div>For what it’s worth -- I hovered over the address on the email; it gave me apple.com. So I’m becoming confident that Apple itself has shafted me.<br><br>My latest charge card bill shows a $0.99 charge from Apple. So a missed payment can’t be at fault unless Apple didn’t record the payment even though they charged me.<br><br>I have a full schedule today and tonight. Somehow, I’m going to have to fit in an appointment at the Apple store.<br><br><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 9:18 AM, Robert Primak <bobprimak@yahoo.com> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv0370093809"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv0370093809ydpf30476f1yahoo-style-wrap"><div></div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Adam B. is most likely correct. I would do as he suggests, then do as Steve I. suggests, to make sure everything is OK in your actual Apple accounts.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">As Adam notes, there are a lot of email scams going around surrounding iCloud storage. I get them in Yahoo email, even though I have never had an account with Apple (though some enterprising souls did a long time ago open accounts using my info.).</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Do we need a Potpourri item or a brief announcement to our user group about this issue? (I'd like to let Apple users present this.) </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">-- Bob Primak</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div>
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<div>Fellow members,</div><div><br clear="none"><span style="">Until sometime</span><span style=""> this evening, I had 50 GB of iCloud </span><span style="">storage for my iPhone, for which Apple extracted $0.99 per month from my credit card. Then, without warning, Apple told me I had used up all of <i>5 GB of my 5 GB allotment</i> (those are not typos! See screen shot, below.)</span><br clear="none" style="">
</div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="">I recall having used ~13-14 GB of the 50 GB allotment.</span></div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="">When I go to Settings/iCloud, the storage info is more or less consistent with these new claims.</span></div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div>What’s going on? What is the “+” appended to iCloud? How can this be rectified? Has my phone been hacked?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks, in advance, for insights.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div> Mike Alexander</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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