Re: [apple-iphone] iCloud back up question with Gmail

 

My wife has bumped into the 5GB iCloud backup max with her iPhone and iPad on the same account.  She does not want to buy extra storage.

I have 2 iPhones and 2 iPads backed up to iCloud, and use a total of 4.9 GB of storage space.

And I do use iCloud mail.

And because I thought I would be using it (but haven't yet), I splurged on additional storage space (20 GB total) – for $0.99/month.

You could look through Settings – iCloud – Storage – Manage Storage to see where the space is being used up.

She uses the built in mail app but she does not use the Apple mail services. She only uses Gmail.

That being the case is there any reason for her to back up her mail to iCloud. I am thinking that if something unfortunate happens to her phone or iPad all of her mail will still be available via Gmail.

I have no experience with Gmail. Be sure that anything you don't save locally is available from their storage, then you can remove mail from iCloud storage.

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Posted by: Jim Saklad <jimdoc@icloud.com>

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