While installing multiple apps on your iPhone, since there might be instances when you do not want a few apps to be backed up, iOS allows you to choose which apps should be backed up to iCloud, and which ones must be left alone.
Here is how you can choose the applications that should not be backed up to iCloud when you initialize the backup process in your iPhone:
Note: Since all the apps that your iPhone has are configured to be backed up to iCloud, you must turn off the backup feature for the unwanted apps that you do not want iCloud to store.
- Long press the Power button to switch on your iPhone.
- Swipe your finger from left to right to unlock.
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- Tap the Settings icon from the home screen.
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- Locate and tap the iCloud option in the Settings window.
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- Scroll down and tap the Storage & Backup option in the iCloud window.
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- Once done, tap Manage Storage on the Storage & Backup interface.
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- From the Manage Storage window, tap the name of your device (iPhone in this demonstration.)
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- Once done, from the displayed apps list, swipe to turn off the toggle button representing the unwanted apps (the ones you don’t want to be backed up to iCloud) to the left.

Note: The amount of iCloud storage used by each app is shown below the app in the list. Also, since the apps list may be abbreviated, you might need to tap the Show All Apps option from the bottom to view the complete list of the installed apps.





