Iphone Backup size dropping

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Iphone Backup size dropping

I used to backup my iphone 6 every week. It was taking considerable time to get backed up and the size of the backup was around 15 GB. More than 80% of content is coming from pictures and photos in my iphone.

I dont remember whether I have made any modification, howver I noticed the last backup took less than 20 minutes and the size is currently around a.5 GB.

Please, any specific reason behind this? Do you know what is the content of the backup? Is it something customizable?

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iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Feb 11, 2016 3:54 PM

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sberman

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Feb 11, 2016 4:01 PM in response to Hamine

This explains what gets backed up:

About backups in iCloud and iTunes - Apple Support

You have not stated whether you are backing up using iCloud or iTunes. Regardless, I would definitely not be concerned about this as you cannot control it anyway.

No, you cannot specify exactly what gets backed up or not (or what gets restored from a backup or not). Both are an "all or nothing" proposition.

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