iPhone 17: Red bubble on settings icon won’t go away

Ah, so my first hunch was correct.

Sorry, I have no new ideas how you can solve this one

Have you tried Apple Support?

Support

Have you checked again to make sure that your old Phone is not still appearing in the list of devices on your new phone using your Apple Account? (This is covered in the Apple document about what to do with an old phone)

On your new iPhone.....tap Settings > Your Name

Scroll down to see the list of devices using your Apple Account

If the old phone appears in the list......select it, then scroll down and tap Remove from Account

You’re getting what you asked for then, with a warning that data you’ve requested to sync doesn’t have iCloud access.

Dig through the iCloud app settings and turn off everything.

Using iCloud for backups or using a PC for backups is just one parr of the data hosting (and sharing) that is available with iCloud.

I too use local backups, as well as using other iCloud services, though not iCloud backups.

Or turn it on, and use it to sync (for instance) playlists between your iPhone and your PC.

Did you follow all of the steps in this Apple Support document?

What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

How much storage space do you have on iCloud? Not sure?

Tap Settings

Tap [Your Name] at the top of the screen

Look for iCloud

How much storage space do you see for iCloud?

It might just be that on one of your devices (including this one) you haven't set a password for the backup. That's usually the reason that sensitive information like passwords and health are excluded.

Richro65 wrote:

My wife did the sync on my phone. She did hers first and had no problem. Then she did it on mine and it seemed to work fine, but there was a problem with the SIM and I had to reach out directly to the provider. Other than that, the phone works fine.

I don't use iCloud. Never signed up for it. Just want to get rid of of the notification since I can't do what it wants me to do.

You don't use iCloud? How do you backup your iPhone? If you lose your phone and you don't have current backups, your data will be gone.

If you have an Apple Account, which it would seem you must since you own an iPhone, you have iCloud. We don't signup for iCloud. It's built into our phones. Not using it however, may not be a smart move.

Richro65 wrote:

My wife did the sync on my phone. She did hers first and had no problem….

Are you possibly sharing an Apple Account? (Because that usually ends badly.)

As for iCloud, that’s built in, and is here getting blocked. Maybe incompatible usage settings?

My wife did the sync on my phone. She did hers first and had no problem. Then she did it on mine and it seemed to work fine, but there was a problem with the SIM and I had to reach out directly to the provider. Other than that, the phone works fine.

Understood, but the question that I asked was whether the "old" phone was "decommissioned" correctly after your new phone was set up.

If it was not, the new phone may still be trying to sync with the old phone. That is likely what is meant when the message indicates that the phone is not syncing to all of the devices listed under your Apple Account.

If you tap on "Some iCloud data is not syncing".....what message or information appears?

MrHoffman wrote:

You’re getting what you asked for then, with a warning that data you’ve requested to sync doesn’t have iCloud access.

Dig through the iCloud app settings and turn off everything.

Using iCloud for backups or using a PC for backups is just one parr of the data hosting (and sharing) that is available with iCloud.

I too use local backups, as well as using other iCloud services, though not iCloud backups.

Or turn it on, and use it to sync (for instance) playlists between your iPhone and your PC.

I'm a big believer in redundant backups. I do backup to my MacBook Pro, but I also backup nightly to iCloud. Having a full backup just on a computer, to me, is not enough. Things can and do go wrong from time to time.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I do backup to my MacBook Pro, but I also backup nightly to iCloud. Having a full backup just on a computer, to me, is not enough. Things can and do go wrong from time to time.

If you're backing your Mac up using Time Machine then unless you've excluded them your iDevice backups done through Finder will also be included in the Time Machine backups.

Zurarczurx wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I do backup to my MacBook Pro, but I also backup nightly to iCloud. Having a full backup just on a computer, to me, is not enough. Things can and do go wrong from time to time.

If you're backing your Mac up using Time Machine then unless you've excluded them your iDevice backups done through Finder will also be included in the Time Machine backups.

I am using Time Machine, but even the best SSD drives can go bad. iCloud Storage is inexpensive. Backing up to the cloud, to me, makes a LOT of sense. As I said, I'm a believer in redundant backups.

I have an Apple One Account, which in addition to Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Games, includes 200GB of iCloud Storage.