Timeline for Restoring iCloud backup not possible due to lack of free storage in iPhone
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| Jul 7, 2022 at 20:56 | comment | added | anonymousaga | @DjGj That is odd how the gray bar became smaller. I would definitely factory reset & re-backup. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 17:23 | comment | added | DjGj | So I called Apple Support. They think this is definitely not normal. Funny thing is that I connected the phone through the cable to the Mac and instantaneously the gray bar became smaller and smaller. They asked me to try again from scratch and to restore from iCloud. I'll update on the outcome. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 14:57 | comment | added | anonymousaga | Oh… you might have had one of the settings enabled on your old phone: “optimize photos” or “offload apps”. Because the OS will hardly expand by a fee gb even if your jumping from a really old device. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 9:41 | comment | added | DjGj | Thanks for your reply. I was thinking to activate that option indeed. What's unclear to me is why before I broke my Phone I had 70GB free space, with same identical setup and data, while now I'm not able to restore it. | |
| Jul 6, 2022 at 23:22 | history | answered | anonymousaga | CC BY-SA 4.0 |