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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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 having second thoughts about installing the public beta of iOS 26, follow these steps to go to back iOS 18. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of ...

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 ...

It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer writes the monthly Tech Tip ...

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, ...

Since Apple doesn’t offer an iCloud Photos app for Android, the browser method works best. Visiting the iCloud site through ...

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 ...

It's easy to run out of iCloud storage space. No matter if you’re using the 5GB that comes free with your iPhone, or if you’ve gradually upgraded to 50GB or even 200GB, running out of space still ...

Owners of iPhones running on iOS 8 and earlier will soon lose the ability to use iCloud device backups, unless they update to iOS 9 or later. As a way to keep hold of your data, iCloud backups are ...

Make sure Apple Watch and old iPhone are updated and synced to iCloud > back up old phone > set up new phone. When asked to use Apple Watch, select Continue > keep devices close > follow on-screen ...