Tag: ICloud

• You can back up your iPhone’s data wirelessly with iCloud, but you can only save a limited amount of data for free.
• If you have a PC, you can back up your iPhone with iTunes; if you have a Mac, you can use Finder.
• Once you’ve saved a backup to your computer, you can also move it onto an external hard drive.
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When was the last time you backed up your iPhone? Hopefully it wasn’t too long ago — otherwise, you’re one accident away from losing a lot of your data.

Experts recommend keeping all of your data backed up, and updating those backups often. And luckily, there are several ways to back up an iPhone and keep your data safe.

Here are the three best ways to back up your iPhone: Using iCloud, a computer, or an external

hard drive

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How to backup your iPhone with iCloud

Backing up with iCloud is incredibly convenient. You can do it wirelessly over Wi-Fi, and even set it up so your iPhone backs up automatically, meaning you never have to worry.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone and tap your name at the top of the screen.

2. In the Apple ID menu, tap iCloud and then iCloud Backup.

3. Make sure that iCloud Backup is toggled on. This makes it so whenever your iPhone is charging and connected to Wi-Fi, but you’re not using it, it’ll back up your data. So plug your phone in at night before bed and your files should back up regularly.

You can also tap Back Up Now to manually create a backup right now.

How to backup your iPhone to a computer

If you prefer to keep your data outside of the cloud, you can save it all to your computer. It’ll all get stored into a single file that you can move and store however you like.

If you’ve got a PC, you’ll do this using iTunes (so make sure you have it