Icloud wont back up
My icloud would not back up because I was too close to the 15gb I had purchased. I then removed 1,000 photos from the phone and opened up several GB (in theory) to make room on my icloud. However, icloud is not recognizing I did so wont back up. Before I removed the photos I only had 231mb left of 15gb. The phone memory definately knows I took the photos off but icloud does not. Please help.
Ryan
Unfortuantely, that seems to happen to a number of people. I've seen cases where the phone itself didn't recognize the reduction in space, and needed to be restored in order to fix things. You might want to go to Settings>General>Usage>Photos & Camera to see if the Camera Roll size listed there is the same as the one shown in the backup estimate.
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