Trying to backup my phone to iCloud and the only thing I’m backing up is three apps. Everything else is turned off. Individually they add up to about 8MB, but it says my next backup size is going to be 8.55Gb🤨. Am I missing something? How is the backup going to be that big and how do I fix it?
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iPhone 14, iOS 18
Apple_sucs34 wrote: … 11.82GB IOS and 12.94GB System. Is there any way to reduce this so I can backup?
Not much. You can try clearing your Safari cache by going to "Settings>Apps>Safari>Clear History and Website Data."
Clear your cache and cookies on iPhone - Apple Support
There's also, in "Settings>Apps>Safari>Advanced>Website Data," lots of stuff kept for individual website.
You can also go to "Settings > General > iPhone Storage," and select an app. You can either "Offload App" which
removes the app and its cache, but keeps the app data, or "Delete App" which dumps the app and its data.
Here's a hint: we are not Apple; folks who read these posts are just users like you. Some of us hang around here from time to time in case our experience may help someone. We don't get paid and we don't have a schedule, and the Apple engineers don’t read this stuff. Choosing a name like Apple_sucs34 won't encourage us to offer any help. In general, when you ask someone for help, Apple, or anybody, really, you're more likely to get results by being polite and serious, and stating your concern without trying to offend people.
You seem to be looking only at apps. At Settings>General>iPhone Storage at the bottom I see that on my phone iOS is 18 GB and System Data is 6.5 GB.What does yours say?
The data backed up from your chosen apps will make no sense for running in iOS without all the System Data. The System data is all the stuff that makes iOS work.
11.82GB IOS and 12.94GB System. Is there any way to reduce this so I can backup?
Okay, thanks for the help
iCloud backup larger than it should be
