How to delete WeChat messages backup in iCloud

December 1 2016

WeChat messages backup takes lots of space in iCloud? Do you want to delete your old WeChat messages backup in iCloud that you don’t need any more?

iCloud provide us a convenient way to manage our iPhone data, also we don’t worry about losing iPhone data when we have done some backup in it. At the same time, as we have more and more iPhone data, iCloud will be full, and it won’t allow us to update new data. What to do? Well, in this way, we can delete some old backups we don’t need any more, like WeChat messages backup. From this page, we’ll show you how to delete WeChat messages backup in iCloud.

Delete iCloud backup on iPhone or iPad

1.Connect your iPhone or iPad with Wifi, go to Setting--iCloud, log in it with your Apple ID and password, then tap on Storage--Manage Storage.

2.Then choose the backup of related device you don’t need, then click “Delete Backup”, and confirm with “Delete”.

Delete iCloud backup on Windows PC

1.Launching your iCloud on PC, click “Manage” on the right page.

2.Then choose the backup files you don’t need any more, click “Delete”.

Delete iCloud backup on Mac

1.Open your Mac, click Apple icon and go to Preference.

2.Then in the new interface, find and click on “iCloud”.

3.Then it’ll load iCloud preference, and tap on Manage, now all your backup files will show up, click on the one you don’t need any more, tap on “Delete”, and confirm with “Delete”.

Tips: If you want to restore WeChat data from iCloud backup selectively, you can come to iRefone for help.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, which can recover as well as backup more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages ect. And if you have done backup in iTunes and iCloud, iRefone can also help you recover them from your backups selectively, and it allows you to preview them before restoring.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.

For detailed steps, you can refer to below article:

Selectively Backup WeChat Messages on iPhone