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Just bought a new iPad Air M2 & transferred everything from my old iPad before removing the old one from the cloud. All seems ok except I’m unable to backup the new iPad as it says there’s not enough storage left. I might be daft but if there was enough for the contents on the old iPad, why isn’t there enough for the same contents on the new??
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By design, the iCloud backup for your old iPad is independent of the backup created by your new iPad. Both backup's occupy storage space in iCloud.
Deleting your old backup, if no longer required, will make more space available within your available iCloud storage quota. You should note that unless you have subscribed to iCloud+, your free-of-charge storage is limited to just 5GB.
Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support
Buy iCloud+ or upgrade your current storage plan - Apple Support
By design, the iCloud backup for your old iPad is independent of the backup created by your new iPad. Both backup's occupy storage space in iCloud.
Deleting your old backup, if no longer required, will make more space available within your available iCloud storage quota. You should note that unless you have subscribed to iCloud+, your free-of-charge storage is limited to just 5GB.
Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support
Buy iCloud+ or upgrade your current storage plan - Apple Support
My apologises for not having seen your response and having replied sooner.
Having transferred everything from your old to new iPad, how much "on device" storage is being used by your new iPad? The available ~3GB of your iCloud storage really isn't very much.
A screenshot of the page might be helpful:
Settings > General > iPad Storage
Thank you your rapid response - here’s a screen capture of my storage, only 1.7GB is being used. Any helpful ideas would be gratefully received. TIA
Why is my new iPad not backing up to iCloud?
