my iphone6 will not restore from a back up because it says there is not enough room. I have 4.5GB of space available. itunes and IOS is up to date. What can I do?

my iphone6 will not restore from a back up. message says not enough space on iphone. I checked space and I have 4.5GB. IOS and itunes are up to date. What do I do?

Posted on Dec 9, 2015 7:50 AM

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May 28, 2016 6:44 PM in response to hannah from ca

Not sure the size of an existing iTunes backup can be reduced - AmishCake may have some insights

If you are concerned about your contacts - sync them with iCloud and also look in the app store for a free Contacts backup app and use that to email a spreadsheet containing the current contacts to yourself for safe keeping

To reduce the size of the backup upon RE creating it - would mean no photos, no music and other large files

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my iphone6 will not restore from a back up because it says there is not enough room. I have 4.5GB of space available. itunes and IOS is up to date. What can I do?

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