Q: Increased iPhone backup size since iOS 8
Hi,
As far as I'm aware, since I updated to iOS 8 (I'm now on 9.2), my backups have been about twice the size they used to.
Around that time, I did upgrade from an iPhone 4S to a 6 Plus, but the apps I've been using are the same.
I've had to keep switching off iCloud backups, as I was using up all my space, and I finally bit the bullet and went for the 50GB package, but I'd like to know if there's any way of working out what's taking up all that space!
The weird thing as well is, I might start with a first backup of about 3.5GB, and then within a couple weeks it's almost 5GB. It should stay about constant, I would have thought...
Any thoughts, a) on what might be causing this, and b)if there's a way to tell what is the biggest backup space user?
I've restored from backups countless times.
Thanks!
iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 9
Posted on Jan 3, 2016 10:08 AM