iphone question for those experts here

[reible]

I have a pretty new iphone and while I have adapted pretty well by now to the differences between android and it I'm still lost on this issue.

iphone comes with 5GB of storage on icloud. I have about 9GB of photos on the phone, yea it adds up fast. I have the icloud program on my PC and I have the photos backed up on the PC.

So the iphone wants to do backups but fails saying I don't have enough space. My guess is that it tries to back up the photos which of course is too large and thus fails. I'd like the contracts and that sort of thing backed up but not the photos. So how do I tell it not to back up the photos when it does its backup to the icloud?

Ed

[cmn135]

Go into settings. Then your name/profile (which is the first option) then select iCloud. Should be selection options on what to backup below it. Just turn off photos.




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[RFGuy]

I have a pretty new iphone and while I have adapted pretty well by now to the differences between android and it I'm still lost on this issue.

iphone comes with 5GB of storage on icloud. I have about 9GB of photos on the phone, yea it adds up fast. I have the icloud program on my PC and I have the photos backed up on the PC.

So the iphone wants to do backups but fails saying I don't have enough space. My guess is that it tries to back up the photos which of course is too large and thus fails. I'd like the contracts and that sort of thing backed up but not the photos. So how do I tell it not to back up the photos when it does its backup to the icloud?

Ed

Ed,

Go into Settings, then at the top click on your name (should say "Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes & App Store" underneath). Then select "iCloud" on the next page. You should be able to click on "Photos' and turn it off here. After this, it won't be backing up your photos to iCloud. You can look through all the items below this and select which ones backup and which ones do not. Hope this helps. Yeah, I switched to iPhone from Android a few years ago. There are definitely things that I miss on Android. Pros and cons on each one. Also, it is only like $2/month for the 50GB option on iCloud which is what I have. Yeah, I know another drain on finances. One free way is to setup Dropbox or similar app and dump all of your photos to your Dropbox account from your iPhone. If you also run Dropbox on your PC, then it will pull all of your photos to it automatically. You get 2GB of free storage on Dropbox, but must have the app running on your phone to transfer photos.

[reible]

First thanks for the help.

Now I have to say that I don't think the photo thing was the issue as it appears unless you click the On> it is not turned on. So after playing around for a while and pretty much not knowing what I was doing the back up started working??? So last night while it was plugged in it did the backup and all is well, well enough for now.

I also found that my icloud program was out of date so that got updated but I don't know if that had anything to do with the backup issue???

As I mentioned I back my photos up to the PC using icloud so I really don't need to store them else were. I should mention I run a backup of all of my photos, both off the phone and off the camera to yet another drive so they are located at three places and so far that has been pretty safe.

My last android phone had only 16GB and I was always running out of space as it seems every time an app is updated it gets larger and then there are the photos....... for a while it was a weekly thing trying to figure out what apps to keep and moving photos off to PC storage.

When my son got me the new iphone I ask for 64GB and so far that has been more then enough, haven't even filled up half of it. I also really like that I don't have to charge it everyday, I can get two days easy and if I'm not using it much I can get 3 days, the old android phone HAD to be charged every day.

Ed