

I would be happy with 40gb of incomplete data on my phone rather than no data at all. I am merely left with no option but to be a silent observer witnessing a slow death of all my memories over these years, knowing the engineers at apple could help me if they want since the data is still there on the cloud. I have been informed that eventually the entire backup will be deleted in 180 days.that's about 40gb. Icloud doesn't let me do that and it doesn't even give an option to download the 40gb backup so i can use it at a later date when there is technology to retrieve data from it. I regret not taking timely backups but I want to restore the backup into my factory reset device as it has tons of photos. I have no other backup of my device since I had recently paid for a 200gb subscription of icloud space a few days before my iphoneX crashed (was running low on space since some time) and had to be restored to the factory settings as there was no other option - tried almost everything.

