Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Has anyone signed up for more iCloud storage just long enough to backup phone for replacement and then decreased back to free amount?
If so was all the cloud storage deleted or was there some system to what got deleted in excess of the free amount?
iPhone 8, iOS 13
I should have posted this before. It’s worth a look.
I should have posted this before. It’s worth a look.
I have never done that but, I would caution that if you are getting a replacement device with the same amount of storage or more storage, your backups are going to be larger in the future anyway. If you sync messages, documents, reminders, and notes with iCloud, those take up space as well. If you use iCloud Photos and you have a lot of photos, that can take up really large amounts of storage.
IF you need the storage for the backup now, you will need it in the future as well unless you are going to a smaller capacity device in which case you would lose data because you wouldn’t be able to restore the larger backup to the smaller capacity device.
Based on what I have read, once you downgrade the storage back to the free amount, 5 GB of data will be saved. There doesn't seem to be a way to choose what will be saved or a systematic priority of what gets saved.
If you purchased more storage, backed up, restored the backup to the new phone and then immediately backup to your computer, that would work. But that begs the question, why not just backup to your computer and forget using the iCloud backup?
Remember that 50GB of storage only costs 99¢ per month in the U.S., so I wouldn’t cancel the plan for a couple of weeks just to be safe.
I only need it long enough to upgrade to new phone, Then I would revert back to backup on my laptop.
free iCloud Storage insufficient for Backup of iPhone 8
