![]() ![]() ![]() Having both an iCloud backup and a local backup on a Mac ensures that you’ll be able to restore an iPhone or iPad at all times, even when Internet access is slow, expensive or nonexistent. Some people may balk at paying near $120 a year for that storage, so iCloud backups of their mobile devices may be out of the question.įinally, you may just want to have multiple backups of your devices…just in case. I make frequent use of iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive, so I spend $9.99 per month for 2TB of cloud storage. Next, iCloud has a cost associated with it. Restoring that media can take a lot of time, and it may be faster to restore from a local backup. That data is sufficient to restore your mobile device from iCloud should you need to reload it or you’re moving to a newer device, but you’ll find that there are items that must reload from the cloud - Photos (if you’re using iCloud Photos) and Music (if you’re an Apple Music or iCloud Music user). As you’ll note, only “your most important data” is backed up during an iCloud backup. You can see that this iPhone user is currently using iCloud to back up data on the iPhone, but there are reasons that others may prefer to back up to a Mac.įirst, backing up to a Mac ensures that all of the data currently on the iPhone or iPad is backed up. IPhone/iPad backup settings in the Finder Since this article is focused on backing up iPhones and iPads, let’s take a closer look at the section of the Finder window that is used to perform that function: Of course, with the move to the Music app in macOS Catalina, iTunes was deprecated and the iPhone/iPad sync functions relegated to the Finder. In most ways, this user interface is similar to what used to appear in iTunes when an iPhone or iPad was plugged in. You can base it on the time and date that the backup file was made. ![]() So from here, all you have to do is simply choose on the iCloud backup file that you prefer to work on with. There’s also a convenient bar chart showing how the memory on your device is being used, and a way to configure iOS/iPadOS accessibility options from the Mac. Then after that, you will now be able to see all of the iCloud backup files that you have made before. In the screenshot above, you can see that there’s actually quite a bit of information that appears: the current version of iOS or iPadOS running on your device, the ability to check for updates, a way to restore an iPhone to factory settings, a section about backups, and a list of settings options. ![]() Here’s an iPhone named “Death Valley” as seen in Finder in macOS Catalina The Finder View of Your iPhone or iPad ![]()
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