will deleting icloud backup make me loose everything on my new phone

hi! i recently changed from my old iphone to my new iphone 12 and my old iphone backup is using up 1.5 GB of my storage. if i delete and turn off the backups of my old iphone will i loose everything like my photos, contacts, information etc on my new iphone? Or will everything stay the same and my storage will just go down? thanks

iPhone 12, iOS 16

Posted on Jan 14, 2023 02:42 PM

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Posted on Jan 14, 2023 02:51 PM

Yes -- see this from my previous reply:

Deleting an iCloud Backup will not remove any data from either your old or new iPhone. It only deletes the backup from iCloud.

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