why does back up in icloud take up so much storage?
iPad back up takes up most of my storage in iCloud
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Unless you have subscribed to a paid iCloud+ storage tier, your “free of charge” storage quota is only 5GB. For most users, 5GB is only sufficient for basic synchronisation services.
Paid storage tiers are 50GB, 200GB and 2TB: