Upgraded iPhone 7plus to iOS 15. Used a recent backup. It is stuck and says it will require 100MB. That much storage is available. I cannot update to 15.1 until it is done restoring. It’s been stuck alllllllllllll day. I even canceled and tried a different backup but here I am. Stuck. What is the problem?
Thanks for reaching out Roxbottt,
We understand you're seeing a message that you need more space to completely restore your entire backup, to your new iPhone.
Despite seeing enough available storage space currently on the device, you may be seeing the message because there is not enough available space to accommodate all of the remaining data that is yet to be restored.
If you tap Settings > General > iPhone Storage, are you seeing any recommendations for actions you can take to make more storage space available? The "Use recommendations to optimize storage" section of the following page offers additional information about options you may see there: How to check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
After making more storage space available, it may take some time for the restore to complete.
We hope this helps!
I have no doubt that this will resolve it, but it is 110% a bug in my case. I have a 512GB iPhone, my previous one was also a 512GB model. When I sold it, it had 185GB available, but somehow the restore is hung up saying it is out of space (it shows 79GB available right now, so something is clearly amiss).
So yeah, enabling all these optimize space options will probably make it work, but then I have to go turn them back off again once the restore is complete since if I wanted to rely on the cloud being available all the time I wouldn't spend the money on the larger physical storage.
Maybe in the OP situation they really were close to the limit, but in my situation this is nothing more than yet another software bug to work around.
Stuck on Restore
