When you set up icloud you automatically get 5gb of free storage you can use that storage space to back up your device and to keep all of your photos videos documents and text messages securely stored and updated everywhere.
Storage and icloud usage doesn t add up.
As you can see here my icloud storage doesn t add up.
The actual usage not counting the mysterious 930 5 mb is only 0 64 gb so i am getting a wrong number for photos camera usage.
Icloud storage only offers limited backup storage space and the limited storage may be crammed up by backup files of your iphone.
Adding up all the items listed under icloud usage storage including the mysterious 930 5 mb above it totals only 1 57 gb.
Delete previous backup files to clear iphone storage.
This also shows the same on my iphone.
After that check your iphone storage see if the storage adds up now.
You can use that space for your icloud backups to keep your photos and videos stored in icloud photos and your documents up to date in icloud drive.
When you set up icloud you automatically get 5 gb of free storage you can use that storage space to back up your device and to keep all of your photos videos documents and text messages securely stored and updated everywhere.
You can make more space or buy more storage any time.
As you can see backups still takes up 3 86 gb of space even though i deleted it because i had no space left to backup deleting the current backup usually allows me to do a new full backup.
Depending on the size of your backup and the amount of content you keep in icloud you might run out of free space.
When you set up icloud you automatically get 5gb of storage.