Has anyone else disabled iCloud device backups to stop getting notifications of failed backups?

[Oneechan69]

I've kept getting notifications on my iPhone & iPad because I'm out of space (I'm on the 5GB free tier, no way I'm paying for cloud storage when self-hosting isn't hard). I still keep app data backups on, but despite that the device backup sizes would be ~1.5GB large. God knows what's inside the backup, while Apple does have a list of what's inside backups, you can't see the contents of your backups without restoring. If either of my devices were lost / wiped, I would lose no data either than settings or home screen layout, since all my app data online, either iCloud or on an online account (I just checked both of them).

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Well… yeah, if you don’t want the device to back up turn off the backup… 🧐

If I’m misunderstanding your question, my apologies 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[Oneechan69]

I disabled device backups so I can't stop being bothered to upgrade my iCloud storage.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Okay… sure, lots of people do. I guess the question I’d ask is, “if you’re not gonna buy iCloud storage - what reason would you have NOT to disable iCloud backups”? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Paddle1]

You can't use it anyway so you may as well. I do pay for the $1 50GB tier and find features like Hide My Email can come in handy.