HA HA HA HA HA HA I have found out why my iPhone iCloud backup was larger than 5GB but there was no way to reduce its size!
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HA HA HA HA HA HA I have found out why my iPhone iCloud backup was larger than 5GB but there was no way to reduce its size!
Turns out... if you bookmark a web app to your Home Screen then its data is included in your iCloud backup. This is very good! Nice one Apple.
But it doesn't show up in the "Backup Details" list of apps in your iCloud Backup settings, so you don't know where the space is gone. This is not as good. I shall file a bug.
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Stuart Langridgereplied to Stuart Langridge last edited by
https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/15158244 filed if any Apple dev people look at this. I don't think this is a Safari problem; Safari is doing absolutely the right thing here. This is an iCloud Backup Settings problem, and it's not exactly the only one, since "why is my iCloud Backup bigger than it ought to be" is a common question. Still, this is very useful to have found out. Also, it might stop me playing Wordle every day, although I can doubtless re-add it now!
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Stuart Langridgereplied to Stuart Langridge last edited by
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2024/09/17/on-ios-home-screen-web-apps-are-part-of-your-icloud-backup/ written to preserve this info for posterity!