IPhone storage is being weird?
When I go into my settings, it says that I have 174 GB available on iCloud. But when I try to download something on my iPhone, it says that I don't have enough available storage. Why is it doing this and how do I fix the problem so that I can download stuff again?
Go to Apple, they'll be glad to help. Or contact them online thru their website.
ICloud storage and your phone's storage are 2 different things. ICloud storage is a server ran by Apple that you can upload data onto. So whatever is in the iCloud storage can be accessed from your phone but not actually be on your phone.
Think of it as YouTube, when you watch a video, the video is on their servers, not on your phone. The same applies for storage. To make room you will need to delete some stuff such as music, photos, videos and apps.
You can check your phone's storage by going to Settings>General>Usage. Notice you will have 2 sets of data, your storage on your device and iCloud storage. You want to make sure that you have enough available storage, not iCloud storage.
Storage on iCloud is not the same as storage on your phone. The iCloud storage is on Apple's computers in their data centers, and is much larger than what you have available on your iPhone (if you are signed up for extra cloud storage). When you download something, however, it takes up space on your phone, not on iCloud.
Icloud storage is different from phone storage.
your iphone only has certain storage you can't download apps to icloud
i suggest delete some unused apps or upload your photos to your computer and delete them off your iphone to save space
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