Health Data in iCloud taking up 5.1GB!

Hi All,

Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but my Health Data is taking up a crazy amount of space in my iCloud backup.

My Health Data is showing 5.1GB in iCloud storage, but the data of the Health App and related data is only 650MB on my iPhone.

Has anyone else noticed this?

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Health app/data ~79MB
Health data portion of iCloud backup ~770MB

Weird.

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I think it is a bug in iOS10. Each time you backup to iCloud, I think the data gets added to your existing data. My iCloud backup just grew overnight.

It’s been 10 or 11 days since iOS10 came out, and i’ve probably made 8 iCloud backup’s in that time so the math works out.

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I’ve got the same. Hopefully they’ll fix it soon or people with free accounts will run out of space very quickly. My iOS10 iPhone 6’s backup is three times the size of my iOS9 iPad Mini. Luckily I have 100GB free on iCloud…

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Glad I downgraded then. I’ve only got 5GB and have no plans to increase it.

You can disable backing up Health data in iOS 10 if it really came down to that.

920MB vs 77MB here. It’s a bit odd. I’m not going to stress too much about it, I’ve got plenty of iCloud storage.