

To back up everything on your phone, you'll probably need to upgrade to a paid plan. You can follow our guide on how to free up space on an iPhone, but that likely won't be enough. Considering most iPhones these days have 64GB of storage or more, that won't be enough for most people. Scroll down to see a list of apps using iCloud, with the option to toggle each app on or off – so they will or won't appear on your new iPhone automatically. You can see a summary of how much storage space is currently being used by Photos, backups, apps and other data. You'll see how much iCloud storage you've used and which apps you're backing up. Go to Settings > Your Name (the first option) > iCloud. The simplest method for preserving your iPhone data is to first learn how to back up an iPhone to iCloud.
