Apple’s default iCloud backup is convenient, but it quietly nudges iPhone owners into a monthly bill that can feel permanent ...

iCloud offers an easy way to back up your data on your iPhone. Apple provides 5 GB of free iCloud storage, which can fill up quickly when you back up your photos, videos, and app data. Depending on ...

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If you've backed up your iPhone photos to iCloud, you're already doing better than most people. Keeping an online backup of your photos means it's easy to retrieve them if something happens to your ...

Starting next month, making a device backup over iCloud will require iOS 9 or later, Apple has informed some customers via email. New backups for iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 or earlier will no ...

If you're upgrading to a new iPhone 17 or installing the latest operating system, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble by making a good backup first. Here's how to do it. Jeff Carlson writes about ...

As Apple warned on November 19, it’s ending iCloud backup support for iOS 8 and earlier. Device backups now require iOS 9 or later. Apple says this is to align more closely with its published minimum ...

Although it is not a requirement to back up any of your devices, there are plenty of practical reasons why you should. Having an iCloud backup can make it easier to move all your data to a new iPad, ...

You may have heard that backing up your data with a cloud storage provider isn’t good enough. After all, can you really trust services like Apple iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google One with your ...