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What is taking up so much backup space?

I've got photos off, mail, contacts, calendars, reminders. Off.

Notes is on, safari, home, health, wallet, game center, siri, keychain, find my phone.

Choosing data to back up, showing all apps, and adding all of that ends up being about 500 MB. That's it!

But it tells me my backup size is 4.33GB. Next backup size says 57.2MB, not sure why. Possibly it's already backed up most of those items.

A few things I don't even understand. Isn't that info already stored on the cloud? Why does it have to DO a backup? If I save something to google drive I don't tell google to do a backup.

So what needs to be backed up on my phone? The only thing I can think of are all my settings. Which bluetooth devices I've paired to, which wifi, a bunch of usernames and passwords, messages, that's about it.

So what the heck is taking up that much space!? It seems an awful lot like they are just trying to get me to pay for extra space, which is cheap, but I don't need it. I have space elsewhere for various tasks. I don't need to pay for another one. Shoot, I generally start fresh every time I get a phone anyway so I'm not sure it's worth backing up at all.

Just curious where all the space is going.

What's in iDevice backups (contents)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204136

That helps a bit.

I'll just turn backup off I guess. The only thing that's annoying is having to redo a wifi setup at someone's house who doesn't know what they are doing, so you have to go over to the router and use AEV-2500 network with the password that written on the router of Ae28$^l57gL&$(@f5475 because That's easy to remember. Sure, secure, but it seems like that person always has it written on a post-it note somewhere in their junk drawer. Then you're like...forget it. I'll just pay the $15 extra this month for more data.

Network info is really the only thing I want to backup. What's that like 120KB? Too bad.

I'm not sure if this will help but I discovered a while back, that the photo library has an Album named "recently deleted" in it which, in my case, had lots of pics taking up lots of space...until I deleted those...then space cleared up.

You can use iTunes on your computer to make local backups. No space limitations and a lot safer than no backups at all.

Safer? I'm not arguing, this is a legitimate question. What is it that I'm backing up when I back up my phone? Usually when I get a new phone, I keep things fresh and I just start like I've never had a phone before. The only annoying part is getting back my saved wireless info. Bluetooth devices, and saved wireless networks. (which don't save on icloud at all)

I'm not happy with any of this, and I use gmail. So I have all my contacts, email, calendar, etc sent to gmail. No backup needed there.

I send all my photos automatically to Amazon Prime. It's not my favorite, but that's the only service that doesn't change my 50MB raw photos from my other camera AND there's unlimited size. It's not a free service, but nearly everyone that paid for their own iphone pays for amazon prime.

That does leave my videos though. I do have to manually back those up. But my computer only has a 256GB hard drive. So I need to back those up on cloud storage anyway. I use OneDrive for that since I already have 1TB of space there included with office.

The reason I'm listing some of this out is for other people that may be interested in how some people are handling it. But now back to my question. What am I backing up when I back up my phone? I don't need Any of that information backed up. And when I start fresh, the only thing that I seem to be missing is which apps are where, and which I have installed, as well as my settings.

All of that information should be less than 1MB of space. It's just one, or a few, text based files storing some information about what is where. So, now....why is my phone backup 5.04GB?

This Really just seems like poor planning on Apple's part. I could do a mirrored backup, which is what it's likely doing now. Or I could just back up all my setting, so that if I change phones, I could nearly instantly get everything back by just logging in. Those Really should be two different backups.

Your backing up the data set in Settings/Your Name/iCloud/Storage/Manage Storage.

What does iCloud back up? - Apple Support

最後更新：2017-09-23 03:44:36

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