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scharah

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Jan 15, 2008
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So I bought a I had an iPhone 6 (64gb) and just got a new iPhone 7 (32gb) so need to somewhat downsize in storage!

I had 24gb of photos on the old phone, so I want to create a backup of my phone with everything EXCEPT my photos, so that I can essentially just restore my new phone to my iPhone 6's last state (minus all the photos).

I've signed up for 50gb of iCloud storage so that I can create an iPhone back up in the cloud.

If I go to settings > name > iCloud - I'm met with this:
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If I then click on Storage > manage storage - it says my backups are 0 kb (aka no backups):

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then if I click on my phone (Reuben III) I get this:

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This might be a really silly question, but how do I create the backup?! I can't actually see a 'create backup' button?

thanks in advance!
 
Settings App>AppleID>iCloud>look below Find my iPhone. Should be iCloud Backup. Tap on that and you will be presented with the backup now option.

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