I finally managed to downgrade my iCloud plan

In my first post of 2026, I set myself a goal: downgrading my iCloud Plan. Here is the translated extract from that post, which was initially written in French: Another goal I would like to achieve is to downgrade my iCloud plan. I am currently subscribed to the 2 TB plan, which costs me €9.99 per month, and I would like to downgrade to the €0.99 one for 50 GB of storage. To do so, I will need to do some cleaning and sorting among my current 600 GB of data (including a lot of photos and videos), and copy them to external hard drives (until I can invest in a NAS, which is another project of mine). My iCloud storage usage in January 2026: 632.4 GB out of 2 TB For the record, I subscribed to the 2 TB plan in May 2019. I paid €9.99 for 83 months in a row, for a total of almost €830 (about US$980). That’s a lot of money. I mean, the service offered by iCloud is useful, and I understand some people are happy to pay for it each month. But I didn’t want to continue to pay that much each…