We just got two new iPads. My wife’s back up is 3.8 GB and mine is less than a gigabyte and I don’t understand why. We are not backing up photos we do not have files is the iCloud And I am only backing up less than half of the Apps on each iPad.

BigMikeFav wrote:

We just got two new iPads. My wife’s back up is 3.8 GB and mine is less than a gigabyte and I don’t understand why. We are not backing up photos we do not have files is the iCloud And I am only backing up less than half of the Apps on each iPad.

when I look at Apple ID / iCloud/ manage storage / backups / iPad:

last backup I just took shows 12:30, back up size 4.1 GB, next back up size 12 MB. And yet if I delete the back up and turn it back on I get for 3.8 or 4 GB again.

can anyone explain this to me?

The individual app breakdown below shows photo library no data turned off and the next four add up to about 40 MB

Since you're not syncing photos to icloud it is included in the backup as outlined here What does iCloud back up? - Apple Support, if you're out of icloud storage simple solution is to purchase another 50 GB for 99 cent a month.