Prevent downloading from icloud app store

Skip to main content. Open main menu. Search form Search this site. Topics How-To. App Store. Device Management. On the same menu, choose not toallow deleting apps. Plus, you can prevent in-app purchases for any downloaded apps.

This is great if you want tocontrol your spending. Note that restoring your iPhone tofactory settings will remove your Screen Time password. Unfortunately, while you can select a number of apps to block from your iPhone, there are nooptions to block a specific app altogether. If you know the apps content rating, you can block all apps with that rating and prevent them from gettingon your iPhone, but you will lose access to many other apps in the process.

The closest you can get to blocking a specific app is to set its Screen Time limit to one minute. Active Oldest Votes. The x button is not clickable As you can see, those downloads generate a lot of traffic.

OS: Big Sur Improve this answer. Octavian Fox Octavian Fox 61 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. I've been very frustrated about this lately too. It works by default like this on iPad but it seems that on the MacBook there's a different default where it tries to download everything. Open Finder. Click on iCloud Drive. Right-click on the folder you want to remove its downloaded content, and then click on Remove Download. Udhy 5, 10 10 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Look for words like "if there is space" in the description.

That means Apple downloads everything and then frees up space when it sees you have little space left.

It doesn't do the calculation first - it actually downloads. Look for confusion around Documents and Desktop. If you opt in to syncing on one Mac - now you have 4 folders on any one Mac signed in to iCloud - the cloud version of desktop and documents and the local version.

Jonas Merhej Jonas Merhej 11 3 3 bronze badges. This worked for a download which was triggered manually. Ezekiel Ezekiel 3, 11 11 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. This simple way icloud storage works as everyone always wanted it to work. The Overflow Blog. Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE.

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