Hi Sieghard,
Thanks for the description.
I think the space indication on the usage dialog is how much space each
app uses on the iPhone, not on iCloud. I could be wrong, but I think
iCloud only syncs the documents and settings related to each app, not
actual app. I'm trying to find out how much each app actually uses to
sync on iCloud. I think it was possible on previous ios with VO.
You suggested to turn off each app and compare the backup size. However,
you can't figure it out for some of the apps in this way because they
only use so little space, as you pointed out.
JL
On 12/14/2012 1:58 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Hi James,
You can go here to see how much data is used by each app you have installed:
Settings
General
Usage
At the top you see the storage space of your device, both what's free and
what's used.
Next you see how much is used by your apps, I believe this is in the order
of most to least, e.g. for me Music shows up first with 25.8 Gigabytes, then
Audible with 1.8 Gigabytes etc.
You see I think 10 apps listed and then "Show All Apps", double tap on it
and you can swipe through all your apps.
Below that is a heading "iCloud" and it also shows you total storage
available, 5 Gigabyte if you haven't purchased more, then what's available
and below that a Manage Storage button.
Now here it will tell you how much space is used for Backups.
After that you will hear "James' iPhone, This iPhone" (assuming that is what
your iPhone is called).
Double tap on that.
Now at the top you find information about when your last backup was and how
large it was, then you find "Backup Options - Choose the data you want to
back up".
Below that it announces the size of the next backup and it is followed by a
listing of some of your apps, after the last one there is once again the
"Show All Apps" which if you double tap it does just that.
In this list you only see if the app is "on" or "off", i.e. if it's included
in the iCloud backup (on) or not included (off).
If you turn an app off the size of the "Next Backup" goes down as long as
the app you turned off had data in it. I found that apps like Skype, Light
Detector, ColorVisor and so on can be included in the backup, but turning
them off makes more or less no difference because all that is being backup
up is maybe some settings which take almost no space. Apps that make a big
difference are Camera Roll, Audible (if you have downloaded lots of books)
and so on.
Regards,
Sieghard
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