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id: icloud.how-do-i-stop-an-app-using-icloud
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/icloud/how-do-i-stop-an-app-using-icloud
category: "iCloud & iCloud Photos"
subcategory: "iCloud Drive basics"
question: "How do I stop a particular app from syncing to iCloud on my Mac?"
alt_questions:
  - "Turn off iCloud for one app Mac"
  - "Apps syncing to iCloud Drive list"
  - "Stop app using iCloud storage"
  - "choose which apps use icloud mac"
short_answer: "In System Settings → your name → iCloud, switch off the built-in service, or open iCloud Drive's list of apps syncing and turn the app off. It stops syncing from now on; data already in iCloud stays until you delete it."
tags: ["icloud drive", "apps", "sync"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/icloud/how-do-i-delete-an-apps-data-from-icloud", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/icloud/why-are-there-pages-numbers-keynote-folders-in-icloud-drive", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/icloud/how-do-i-see-whats-using-my-icloud-storage"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# How do I stop a particular app from syncing to iCloud on my Mac?

Open **System Settings → your name → iCloud**. Built-in services (Photos, Notes, Messages and so on) have their own switches; for other apps, open **iCloud Drive** and look for the list of apps syncing to iCloud Drive, then turn off the ones you don't want.

Turning an app off stops it syncing from now on. Depending on the app, macOS may ask whether to keep its existing data on the Mac. Data already in iCloud stays there until you delete it — see [deleting an app's iCloud data](https://storagestudio.us/faq/icloud/how-do-i-delete-an-apps-data-from-icloud).