If you’re curious as to what exactly iCloud backs up on your iPhone or iPad, here’s what you need to know. When you go to back up your iPhone, you have a couple of choices. You can either back up your ...

Thanks to Apple's iCloud, keeping an always up-to-date backup of your iPhone or iPad on Apple's servers is nearly effortless. Ditto for restoring an iOS device from an iCloud backup. If you're a Mac ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Why would you bother to back up your iMessages? After all, they’re all stored in iCloud these days, right? Well, yes your messages are all stored in iCloud, but ...

You should always have a current backup of your iPad so that if it's lost, stolen, or damaged, you can restore all of your data and apps to a fresh device. Backing up to Apple's iCloud is easy and ...

We all understand the importance of backing up our Mac, even if we aren’t already doing so. A backup protects your data if your Mac fails or is stolen, or if a software update breaks something you ...

First and foremost you should check that you’ve got enough iCloud storage left. You’ll be allocated 5GB for free, but anything more than that will require you to pay for a greater iCloud storage ...

So I've always tried to follow the 3-2-1 rule for personal backups (3 copies of the data, 2 backups, 1 backup off-site). My NAS crashed a couple of years ago, right around the same time as a house ...

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, ...

Backing up your iPhone to iCloud is the best way to keep its data safe and secure. You can always be at peace knowing your data is always recoverable, even if ...