Since my last post, two of our three iOS devices have failed to backup to iCloud because there was not enough space. Which was curious because all three had automatically backed up to the iCloud for the last month. System Preferences>iCloud shows that all three backups only use roughly 2.8GB with 2.2GB available on our 5GB plan.
The first iCloud backup problem occurred on my iPhone a few days ago. When I checked Settings>General>Storage & iCloud Usage>iCloud mange storage.iPhone 6s the Photo Library setting had mysteriously been changed to ON. After turning it off, the iPhone 6s backed up to iCloud just fine that night.
Tonight i got the same warning that our iPad couldn’t be backup because there was not enough space. And sure enough the Photo Library setting on the iPad had also been mysteriously changed to ON.
Now I NEVER tell any iDevice to backup the Photo Library to the iCloud. So just how and why did these settings get changed?
—GetRealBro
I have never included my Photo library in iCloud backups. A couple days ago, my phone started giving me the warning that iCloud was almost full. I went into Settings and sure enough, Photo Library was now turned ON under the backup options. I unchecked it and it recalculated, showing that my next backup would only be about a gig. Tonight the error is back, and when I went into settings, the photo library backup is switched ON again.
Also, for the past two days, I'm getting multiple prompts to put in my iCloud password in Settings. This has never been a problem until two days ago.
Both issues started around the same time and absolutely nothing has changed. I've been running iOS 9.1 since it was released and the only changes made in the past couple days are newly updated apps (YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook and FB Messenger). I'd really like to know how to fix this because it's driving me crazy.