iCloud Backup on iPhone X is taking forever

coco_cph wrote:

Hi all - I got a new iPhone recently and have been trying to backup my iPhone X for 2 days now. It's always connected to wifi, always charging, up to date, and I purchased the 2TB so I have plenty of space. When I start a backup it will give me a time anywhere from 8 min, 6 hours, 19 hours, then 8 hours - so the estimates never make sense. A few times it has timed out of the backup itself and another time I canceled it because it had literally been 12 hours.

The only thing I can think of that might be the issue is that it says my last backup was in 2018 (I'm not sure why this is, I had auto backup turned on) and I have a lot of pictures. I don't really care about backing up anything other than my pictures and messages and maybe my contacts.

Any tips or ideas are appreciated.

It going to take a long time to backup to icloud, since the last one was 3 years ago.

when you go to sleep, connect to wifi, plug phone to power source, start the backup, lock the device and let it do its thing.

If you still have issue read here If you can't back up to iCloud - Apple Support