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My phone won’t back up to iCloud saying there’s not enough storage but I have 1.2gb left of the 5gb given. there’s nothing much new to back up

iPhone SE, iOS 12

Posted on May 30, 2020 9:45 AM

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Posted on May 30, 2020 11:19 AM

You’ll have to re-examine your storage needs as something is preventing the backup — If you can't back up to iCloud or restore from iCloud backup failed - Apple Support.

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May 30, 2020 11:19 AM in response to anna-marie251

You’ll have to re-examine your storage needs as something is preventing the backup — If you can't back up to iCloud or restore from iCloud backup failed - Apple Support.

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May 30, 2020 10:33 PM in response to zinacef

Hi, thanks for your reply. What do you mean re-examine my storage needs?

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May 31, 2020 10:59 AM in response to anna-marie251

Have a look at your storage on the device to see what needs to be deleted/saved.

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Jun 1, 2020 12:06 PM in response to zinacef

I already have with photos videos and a couple of apps etc and I have 1.2gb of iCloud storage left but apparently that’s not enough to do a back up. I have more than 40gb left of my phone storage too

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