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2 points

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

26 replies

A4JP

Level 1

14 points

Apr 18, 2016 11:20 PM in response to dkozinn

It is so uncool how if you buy 2 devices that you only get 5 gig for the first device and it gets worse as you buy more devices... There should be 5 gig per device as you can't use memory cards in iPhones, iPads or iPods.

Apr 24, 2016 5:05 AM in response to A4JP

a4jp.com wrote:

It is so uncool how if you buy 2 devices that you only get 5 gig for the first device and it gets worse as you buy more devices... There should be 5 gig per device as you can't use memory cards in iPhones, iPads or iPods.

Well I think Apple's real use of iCloud is to only need one copy of the data in the cloud and it downloads that same data to however many different Apple devices you have negating the need for more space to simply transmit the same amount of data to a different device.

Now to give you more space at least just as a reward for buying another Apple device that's a different matter which I (and probably every Apple customer) would favor.

Apr 24, 2016 5:12 AM in response to Dav3rG

Dav3rG wrote:

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 >

Changing this setting works but it switches back to "On" between reboots. 😕 And I don't want to have to remove the icon completely from the taskbar because I like to look at its status once in a while.

drubi

Level 1

8 points

Apr 29, 2016 10:19 AM in response to Ajind20

thanks for that

Jun 4, 2016 2:17 PM in response to Astyanax3

I saw the earlier post yesterday about doing this, and didn't read down to yours. So annoying that it's not persistent across boots. Clearly it's adware disguised as a "feature" trying to push profit opportunity on us for choosing their products... Sad. Apple... needs to fix this.

LACAllen

Level 8

43,416 points

Jun 4, 2016 6:37 PM in response to StirlingD

So you figure Apple contracted with Microsoft to keep this notification on between boots, so Apple can sell more 99 cent a month storage to Microsoft Windows users?

Do I have that right?

Jun 5, 2016 9:08 AM in response to LACAllen

Microsoft provides the framework for notification services and I'm sure they leave the app developers to decide what settings persists or not over a reboot.

Given Apple sold 51.2 million iPhones and 10.3 million iPads in the first quarter of 2016 alone... even a 10% uptake ratio on the $0.99 offer would be $6.15M a month just on newly purchased devices. You think a company smart enough to amass billions of off shore cash reserves would leave that kind of income on the table without pushing it? Nope.

Source:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/26/11512466/apple-iphone-ipad-sales-q2-2016

However I did note on the technical side that when I set notification off and rebooted the iCloud service disappeared from the control panel notifications settings. I waited about 10 minutes, then it popped up the warning and was back again. So there's something fishy happening and it *may* be an unintended feature (aka bug). I just am not buying it. There's to much money in advertising and SW companies are keen to drag their nets through their users fishing for all kinds of pay to play opportunities.