Why does my iPhone 5 constantly say I have low storage when there is 11GB free on iCloud?

There is only 438 MB available on my iPhone, however there is 11.6 GB available on the iCloud- so why do I constantly have low storage messages?

Probably because it's running out of storage on the phone itself.  Your iCloud storage does not give you more storage on your phone.  It only gives you more space for your synced data, iCloud email and backups.
You can check the availabe space on your phone by going to Settings>General>Usage.  If you're running low, you'll have to delete or sync some data off in order to free up space.

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