How to back up your iPhone and iPad when iCloud won’t let you

Back up, back up, back up!

Patrick Holland for CNET:

I realize a lot of people won’t be able to back up their iPhone to iCloud without a little work. You might see this message on your iOS device, “This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available.”

I realize that the idea of paying Apple more money on top of what we already spend on devices, accessories and AppleCare doesn’t sit well with a lot of people. But if you lost your iPhone, got a new one to replace it and someone told you that you could download a backup of all of the data from your lost phone for just $12, you’d probably say yes. And that’s how much extra storage on iCloud costs a year.

Remember iTunes? Good ol’ iTunes. If you’re running MacOS Mojave (10.14 or earlier) or you’re on a PC, you can just plug your phone into your computer and back it up to iTunes instead of using iCloud.

MacDailyNews Take: And, with macOS Catalina, we’l be able to use Finder to back up as iTunes fades away.

5 Comments

  1. Ha that is all well and good when you have space on your laptop. But given that the basic configurations for laptops are between 64to 256 gb it can be challenging when looking to backup a large capacity iPhone.
    For me the minimum ssd size should be 512gb.

    1. Just replaced the battery and upgraded my MBA ssd from 256 to 512 for that very reason.
      I would never trust the Goog/Amazon/Apple iCloud for backups and always store them locally.

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