I need some help. We use to have a Apple IOS Support group but unfortunately the powers to be at the Fool determined we didn’t need it anymore. So I’ll ask here. Sorry for the interruption.
I bought a new iPad a month or two ago and have been receiving these very SCARY messages that my “iCloud Storage is Almost Full” but not to worry for only $.99/mo we can fix you right up with a bunch more storage.
This happened to me several months ago when I bought a new iPhone 13. The problem is I think when you get the new iPhone the system backs up your old iPhone and then it also backs up the new iPhone and this results in two backups of essentially the same information.
There was a participant on the old Apple IOS Support group that knew how to fix this and he shared it with us. Unfortunately I’ve lost that info. It had something to do with deleting one of the redundant backups.
Does anyone remember the steps needed to get rid of the iCloud Storage Almost Full message other than spending a buck every month for more storage?
BTW, I had so many photos and recently added one doorbell camera, planning on adding another, so I went to the 200Gb iCloud plan, the videos stored don’t count against the space, but allow it to be used temporarily… Not even sure when I began, but it’s letting me fiddle in Phos a bit more without worry…
I bought a new iPad a month or two ago and have been receiving these very SCARY messages that my “iCloud Storage is Almost Full” but not to worry for only $.99/mo we can fix you right up with a bunch more storage.
I remember getting those sorts of warnings years ago. I took the simple way out - I paid the $0.99 cents each month, charged to a charge card. That ran short, so now I pay $3.02 ($2.99 plus $0.03 tax). When related to my other expenses it is less than a rounding error, and I don’t have to bother with it. I’m not big on being bothered these days. (The next step is ten bucks a month, which I think would cause me to deal with it the way you are looking to.)
If you have an Apple Watch, health data can fill up iCloud very quickly.
Really? I would think health data is just a bunch of numeric values taken at intervals throughout the day and night. And once compressed, it would even be a lot smaller. Only if the data is taken (and stored) every second or smaller interval would it amount to much. Though even at 50 real numbers taken every second, that’s still only 4.3 million numbers per day (36002450), and since values close to each other in time would have very close if not identical values, the data would be highly compressible.
If you have an Apple Watch, health data can fill up iCloud very quickly.
Really?
I suspect that was in the case of the free (5 GB) iCloud account. Also, the watch data is sharing space with backups, photos, whatever. Running out of space will often be because of starting to do something new that is adding to the load, such as getting an Apple Watch years after having just an iPhone.
I remember getting those sorts of warnings years ago. I took the simple way out - I paid the $0.99 cents each month, charged to a charge card. That ran short, so now I pay $3.02 ($2.99 plus $0.03 tax). When related to my other expenses it is less than a rounding error, and I don’t have to bother with it. I’m not big on being bothered these days. (The next step is ten bucks a month, which I think would cause me to deal with it the way you are looking to.)
I made the leap to 2 TB iCloud storage this year, after spending over a year (two? three?) at the 200 GB plan. It turns out my kids, on Family Share, use it to store a lot of photos. The leap in storage far outpaced the hop in expense.
It’s also a small fraction of my monthly expenses. The ultimate problem is I have a lot of small fractions that add up, but for now, I’m still somewhat far from the poor house.