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Cloud Backups broken?

planetexpress

planetexpress

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Jan 20, 2021
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So I was on iOS 17 beta and had the issue that I could not cloud backup anymore.

Deleted the backups, tried again, switched the feature off and on and still backups are not working telling me there is not enough space (but cloud is almost empty now and on iOS 16 backups worked). Also I am not backing up photos library.

Now I thought it is some kind of bug, but on iOS 17 public beta there is the same issue.

How do I fix this?
 
planetexpress said:
So I was on iOS 17 beta and had the issue that I could not cloud backup anymore.

Deleted the backups, tried again, switched the feature off and on and still backups are not working telling me there is not enough space (but cloud is almost empty now and on iOS 16 backups worked). Also I am not backing up photos library.

Now I thought it is some kind of bug, but on iOS 17 public beta there is the same issue.

How do I fix this?
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You report the issue and wait it out. You’ve already reported it right?
 
missingar said:
Still won't back up for me on Beta 5. Last backup was July 25
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I wouldn't gamble, make a local backup. I lost all my data on my iPhone, and couldn't restore to the recent backup since it never backed up for some reason on iOS 17, despite seeing iCloud alert me every time
 
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symphony said:
I wouldn't gamble, make a local backup. I lost all my data on my iPhone, and couldn't restore to the recent backup since it never backed up for some reason on iOS 17, despite seeing iCloud alert me every time
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I have a hackintosh that runs 24/7 with my phone wirelessly synced to it. I just switched off iCloud backups and switched to encrypted local backups for now.
 
I had a sideloaded app that was preventing backup. Deleted and the backup worked fine.
 
missingar said:
I have a hackintosh that runs 24/7 with my phone wirelessly synced to it. I just switched off iCloud backups and switched to encrypted local backups for now.
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I completely forgot about wireless syncing with the Mac! Do you know how to access the device without it being on the sidebar? I don't want to have them always showing there.
 
In my opinion, it is best to turn off iCloud backup and keep it off while running beta. If you don't, you could end up with corrupt, useless backup file that is of no good when trying to downgrade to the official release. The beta backups will over-write the previous stable OS backup.
 
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symphony said:
I completely forgot about wireless syncing with the Mac! Do you know how to access the device without it being on the sidebar? I don't want to have them always showing there.
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I just deleted a sideloaded version of YouTube i had installed and now it's backing up fine. But to answer your question, I don't think there's another way to access the device in Finder.
 
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missingar said:
I just deleted a sideloaded version of YouTube i had installed and now it's backing up fine. But to answer your question, I don't think there's another way to access the device in Finder.
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I don’t use any side loading apps, that’s interesting

Well after losing my data and going back to iOS 17, iCloud backups work normally again
 
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