If you are curious about the size of your iPhone backups that are being saved to your iCloud account, then you can check on them from within the Settings menu on your iPhone. Our guide below will show you how to locate this information. when you’re ready to upgrade your phone you will want to delete the information from the old device. Our how to reset iPhone 11 guide can show you how.
Find the Size of an iCloud Backup of Your iPhone in iOS 9
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9. These steps may vary slightly for other iOS versions. This guide assumes that you have set up iCloud on your iPhone, and that you currently have a backup of your iPhone that is saved to iCloud. If you tap the backup if will open an Info screen that shows you more information about the backup, plus includes a list of items that you can elect to include or not include with the backup. You can also delete and turn off backups by tapping the Delete Backup button at the bottom of the screen. You can learn more about managing iCloud backups and reducing their size if you are having difficulty backing up to iCloud because your backup file is too large.
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