My iPhone se won’t back up claiming I don’t have enough storage.
This sounds like simple math - 5 GB free, 190MB needed.
Why wouldn’t it let me backup?
iPhone SE
How much storage is used on your phone in total? Some more info on what is backed up with an iCloud phone backup here:
How much storage is used on your phone in total? Some more info on what is backed up with an iCloud phone backup here:
How can you turn off things from backing up? When you turn off photos, contacts etc. from syncing to iCloud, then they will be part of the backup. If these are already synced with iCloud, they will not be part of the backup:
The Music is downloaded to your phone? In general I would not expect to be able to backup a phone that's using 94GB of storage to a 5GB iCloud account as just the phone data and Apps themselves will exceed that limit in no time.
Photos are “off” in iCloud settings, and Also under “manage storage” -> “backups” -> “my iPhone” -> “photo library”, “photo library” is set to off. As I understand it, I have completely disabled any photos or videos to iCloud.
I think the snapshots speak for themselves: I have managed to free up all of my iCloud space AND my backup is less than 200 MB.
In general I use 94 GB on my iPhone, mostly Apple Music. But aside from turning off everything I can in backup, I turned off almost everything from syncing to iCloud.
The best evidence I can give is my free iCloud space showing at 5GB, which is the max for me.
Interesting. I did not know that so thank you for teaching me something new. In that case I do not know why it wouldn't backup.
iCloud Backup Issues
