Why is my icloud backup taking so long? I just created an icloud account and i am backing it up and it says it will take 3 hours.  I have no pictures on my phone so i think its just backing up contacts, reminders, etc.  Does anyone know why it would take this long?  Is there something that i could be configured incorrectly?  Any advice would be great.
iCloud backups the following:


Photos and videos in the Camera Roll
Device settings (for example: Phone Favorites, Wallpaper, and Mail, Contacts, Calendar accounts)
App data
Home screen and app organization
Messages (iMessage, SMS, and MMS)
Ringtones
Visual Voicemails


It might be due to your app data size and also if this is the first time backing up then it will take a bit longer. Have a look at this link, it will explain why else it might  take longer.