iCloud backup for iPhone 6 keeps increasing in size

The intent here is clearly to sell more iCloud space. I knew as soon as iCloud was rolled out and they only gave us 5GB of data that it wasn't going to be enough. Sure enough my iPhone 6s Plus has never been able to backup to the cloud because the backup file size is always slightly over 5GB and that is all we get for free. I'm not giving them $1 to backup my device that's ridiculous. I recently started having issues with the batter on my phone and of course Apple Support recommended I backup my phone to the iCloud and they said backing up with iTunes won't allow me to see if it is a software issue with the phone. They offered me to upgrade my 5GB plan of course. I said I'd do that and disconnected the chat and never did upgrade. It's sad to see Apple go in this direction, but I hate to say that I saw it coming all along.

I Have the same problem. I reset my network settings, rebooted the phone, deleted the backup, switched off the back up, rebooted the phone, signed out of iCloud, rebooted the phone, signed back in again, plugged the phone into the wall, put it into screen lock, went back to it after an hour and a new backup had been made. I had to go through this procedure about 4 times before it seemed to work. For a week my backup wasn't increasing in size, all was perfect. But yesterday my phone said my phone had never been backed up, my backup was zero bytes, but yet there was storage missing from the cloud. the phone was giving error messages when trying to back up. I've gone through the whole procedure again today and my backup seems to have worked. For now anyway.

I Did have this fault when I first bought my phone last Novrmber. I reported it to Apple and they said my backup must be increasing in size if that's what my phone is saying its doing. Eventually he greed to escalate the problem, Im still waiting for the call back! Then it all seemed fine until a few weeks ago. I thought it must've been because my phone crashed after I'd made a phone call (totally white screen) & that some thing had been corrupted. I think now that they must've fixed the problem in an update, but then 'unfixed' it with the last update? I have seen others reporting the same problem on this forum. Hopefully AppPle will fix it, although some people have ended up paying for extra storage in the cloud. Maybe that's what Apple's plan is.

There's nothing stopping you from making your backups to iTunes on your computer. No limits, no charges.

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