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MDK123

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Jun 13, 2021
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So, I recently upgraded my iCloud plan to 200 GB ‘iCloud+’. The only purpose was to store my nearly 100 GB data from WhatsApp and secure it. My iPhone 12 Pro is 256 GB and almost full due to WhatsApp. In order to secure the data I tried backing up my chats and media to iCloud from WhatsApp settings.

However, it gave an error that I need more space in my iPhone to backup. A little bit of research and, turns out that a WhatsApp backup requires 2.05 times of space of the data in both the iCloud and iPhone. I only needed to keep my data safe; as already mentioned, most of my iPhone storage is taken up by WhatsApp itself and, NOW it requires 2x more?

Is there any workaround I can go through to keep my WhatsApp data in iCloud as I can not prepare that much storage in my iPhone.

Side note: My iCloud Drive has full 200 GB of free space.
 
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