I keep getting warnings that my icloud space is almost full, but I have almost 1GB left

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I keep getting warnings that my icloud space is almost full, but I have almost 1GB left

I recently upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 8, then a couple of days later got an iPhone 6 (obviously with iOS 8), 64GB. I've removed the backups from my old phone, so in my iCloud, it's telling me there's a backup for my iPad of around 800MB and my (new) iPhone of around 3.2GB. All this seems right (it's mostly photos). I am now getting periodic pop-up warnings from iCloud (running on Windows 7 64-bit Pro) that say "iCloud storage almost full". It's showing that I have about 975MB free which while not a lot, is sufficient since each backup should continue to be around the same size.

The thing that's annoying is that I seem to be getting this warning pretty frequently. I haven't timed it, but it seems like these warnings are happening every 10 or 15 minutes. Is there some threshold of free space that I need to maintain to prevent these warnings?

Would deleting my backup and creating a new one help?

iPhone 6, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 21, 2014 9:57 AM

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kayekuy

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Aug 7, 2017 7:11 AM in response to a1000

I bought more and more storage and it NEVER helped. Continue to get the Pop Up. I was notified a few weeks ago that the credit card I used to buy more Apple Storage had expired. I was thrilled and did NOT send them my new credit card number. It doesn't matter one bit how much storage you buy they will continue to tell you there is hardly any left.

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dkozinn Author

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Sep 21, 2014 6:07 PM in response to dkozinn

I forgot to mention (in case it's not obvious) that I have the 5GB of default iCloud space.

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dkozinn Author

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Sep 22, 2014 10:42 AM in response to dkozinn

Some additional information: I turned off backup for my iPad and deleted the backup from iCloud, and that seems to have gotten rid of the warnings. I now have about 1.75GB available on iCloud. I'm still hoping that someone can answer the basic question about how much free space (either in terms of absolute space or as a percentage of total available is required to keep from getting the warnings.

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Oct 4, 2014 3:35 AM in response to dkozinn

I just found your post in Reddit and on here too - as per my post on Reddit, I also have the same issue. I am running low on storage space on iCloud (not surprisingly since Apple only give you a measley 5GB, that doesn't change if you purchase additional iDevices (I own an iPhone 5, iPod Touch, iPad 3 that all have access to iCloud, yet I still only get 5GB, but that's another issue I guess...)). However, I am getting sick of iCloud Control Panel on Windows telling me every 10 - 15 minutes that "iCloud Storage is almost full" - I KNOW SO STOP TELLING ME!

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dkozinn Author

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Oct 4, 2014 10:14 AM in response to westhearcher

I'd never really thought about it, but you bring up a very good point. If I buy into the Apple ecosystem by having an iphone and an ipad, shouldn't I get "rewarded" with additional space per device? In any case, it would be nice to get an answer to the original question that I asked, trying to understand how much space actually needs to be free in order to not get the warnings.

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Oct 20, 2014 6:58 AM in response to dkozinn

In answer to your first question, unfortunately you don't get allocated more iCloud storage as you buy more devices - it is 5GB free per account.

Regarding the pop-up, I too find it annoying but you won't find a resolution to it on these forums - best thing to do is to submit feedback to Apple and hope they improve it.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Ajind20

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Mar 23, 2015 11:37 PM in response to dkozinn

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May 22, 2015 10:22 AM in response to Ajind20

This is exactly what I needed. Happy to continue with the backups, not loosing sleep if I'm running out of space. Just driven nuts by the pop-up notification coming up ever ten minutes... super distracting.

Thank you

🙂

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Sep 4, 2015 3:34 PM in response to dkozinn

So I take it there's no answer to stopping this Popup as yet?

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a1000

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Sep 25, 2015 11:11 PM in response to Jump Dj C

Sadly, it doesn't appear that anyone has found a fix, except of course paying for more storage ;-)

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Dav3rG

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Sep 27, 2015 7:04 AM in response to Ajind20

Ajind20 wrote:

This is the answer here if you are not used to using a forum. Go into your action center notifications and disable.

For Windows 10 - System > Notifications & actions >

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sinrise

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Sep 27, 2015 8:02 PM in response to Ajind20

This actually didn't work for me. I turned off the notification but it just didn't go away. Crazy, right? I'm using W10 with the latest version of iTunes. The only solution that works for me is to kill the process though Task Manager. If Apple doesn't fix this soon, I'm pretty much done with iTunes.

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