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so
let me paint the picture you look after
your iphone really well you guard it you
protect it but one day you drop it and
it breaks or you lose it or someone
steals it or a man on stilts dressed as
a giraffe uses a giant magnet and saps
it out of your hands could happen
you get a new iphone only to realize
that you never backed up your old one
yeah sorry to be such a debbie downer
look you've got to back up your iphone
and today i'm going to show you how to
do it using a few different methods
one of them is icloud and look it's
going to be okay
i promise
every icloud account gets five gigabytes
of storage for free but most people have
more than five gigabytes of data on
their phone or they have more than one
ios device that needs backing up to that
single icloud account and maybe one day
maybe apple will change this and make
the free tier have more storage and that
would be so easy for all of us
but in the meantime let's see what we
can do
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icloud doesn't back up everything on
your phone things like apps or music or
anything purchased with your apple id
doesn't back up basically apple has a
receipt that you already bought them and
lets you re-download those things for
free things like email contacts and
calendars are synced to a gmail account
or yahoo account or whatever your email
account is also if you're still using
yahoo we really should talk now the
first thing we need to do is figure out
the size of your iphone's backup file
go to settings tap on your name at the
top then tap icloud
manage storage
and backups there is a list showing all
the devices that are backed up or trying
to back up with your apple id
select the backup file for your phone
now look at the top three lines last
backup backup size and next backup size
if your next backup size is under five
gigabytes you should be good yay that's
awesome but if you haven't backed up to
icloud in a while your next backup size
could be pretty large and if this number
is over five gigabytes you're gonna need
to do some work so below the next backup
size it's a list of everything that's
gonna take up space in that icloud file
and you can unselect things to make the
file smaller
but let's talk about a very simple fix
that will save you a ton of time and
effort
all right no one likes to do this
but you can also pay apple 99 cents a
month to get icloud plus and increase
your storage to 50 gigabytes and i know
i know you pay apple a lot of money for
the phone and applecare and
why are you gonna pay them even more
it's like the principle of the whole
thing i totally
get it but if you lost your iphone and
everything on it and then you got a new
phone and someone told you that they
could give you a copy of all your old
stuff from your lost phone for just 12
you'd likely just say yes and that's
exactly how much it costs to get extra
storage on icloud for one year now if
you're not jazzed about buying icloud
plus and you only care about your photos
i have a solution for you
for many of us the stuff that takes up
the most space on our phone is going to
be photos and videos if all you're
concerned about are your pictures you
can enable icloud photos to sync your
iphone's photos and videos and not back
up your entire iphone to icloud yet just
to be clear the only thing you'd have
backed up or technically synced to
icloud would be the photos and videos in
your photos app if you have more than
five gigabytes of photos and videos this
approach won't work unless you buy
icloud plus
even if your photos and videos take up
less than five gigabytes of space keep
in mind that things like your message
history and anything in it aren't backed
up now that said
a dollar a month
just to have everything backed up i mean
but let's say you just don't want to use
icloud at all you can still back up your
phone to your computer
if your computer is running mac os
catalina or newer use the finder window
to back up your iphone first thing you
gotta do is plug your iphone into your
mac you might be prompted to hit trust
this computer on your phone next open up
a finder window from the dock from the
sidebar under locations select your
iphone next on the right hand side click
on the general tab
next click the backup now button now
depending on how much data you have this
could take a few minutes to half an hour
to back up
also if you don't want to re-enter all
of your iphone's passwords for apps and
accounts you can check the encrypt local
backup option you're going to be
prompted to enter a password and make
sure you don't lose the password because
otherwise you won't be able to install
your encrypted backup onto a new iphone
keep in mind your backup is as safe as
your computer so
if something happens to your computer
then yeah there goes the backup and
remember
backing up is different than syncing
your iphone to your mac
now if you have an older mac or a pc
don't worry here's how you can back your
iphone to it
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remember itunes well if you're running
mac os mojave or earlier or you're on a
pc you can just plug your iphone into
your computer and back it up to itunes
instead of using icloud
open itunes now if you're on a pc you
might actually have to download the app
first and then after you give your
devices permission to talk to each other
click on the tiny super small iphone
icon then scroll down to the backup
section and choose automatically back up
to this computer and it will make a
backup on your computer i hope one of
these tips helps you back up your iphone
and i sincerely hope that you never lose
your phone or have it stolen by that
aforementioned giraffe man with a magnet
look it could happen
don't rule it out but now i want to hear
from you do you have any tips for
backing up your phone or do you have any
stories you can share about losing your
data that we all could learn from
throw them in the comments also we're
going to be doing these apple stuff
videos every week let us know what you'd
like to see us cover and last
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