Backup methods for iPhone, iPad, and iPod affect

A patronage allows you to copy and save the selective information from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. If you replace your device, you can use a backup to transpose your information to a new device.

Resolve which method is best for you

iCloud backups

With a WI-Fi mesh connection, you can back off your device using iCloud. You Don River't pauperization to fire hydrant your device into a computer to back with iCloud.

iCloud backups include nearly all information and settings stored on your device. iCloud backups don't include:

  • Data that's already stored in iCloud, like Contacts, Calendars, Notes, iCloud Photos, iMessages, Voice Memos, text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages, and Health data
  • Data stored in some other cloud services, like Gmail and Exchange mail
  • Apple Mail data
  • Apple Give information and settings
  • Face Gem State or Touch ID settings
  • iCloud Music Subroutine library and App Store content (If IT's still available in the iTunes, App, Beaver State Apple Books computer memory, you can tap to re-download your already purchased happy.)

Learn how to back up your device using iCloud surgery how to manage iCloud storage and blue-pencil backups that you no more need.

When you use Messages in iCloud, Health data on iOS 12, or Voice Memos, your content is automatically stored in iCloud. If you hinge upon iCloud Photos, your substance is also automatically stored in iCloud.

Backups from your computer

A computer fill-in of your twist, which is non the same as a sync, includes nearly all of your device's data and settings. A relief from a computer doesn't include:

  • Content from the iTunes and App Stores, or PDFs downloaded forthwith to Apple Books
  • Content synced from View finder operating theatre iTunes, like imported MP3s or CDs, videos, books, and photos
  • Data already stored in iCloud, like iCloud Photos, iMessages, and text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages
  • Face ID or Touch ID settings
  • Apple Pay information and settings
  • Orchard apple tree Mail data
  • Activity, Health, and Keychain information (to back upfield this message, you'll demand to use Encrypted Backup in iTunes.)

Learn how to back up your device exploitation your computer, how to find backups on your Mac OR PC, and how to delete backups that you no more need.

Can I use my device's relief for another gracious of device, like an iPhone backup for an iPad?

You can restore a device from a backup of another kind of gimmick, like using an iPad backup for an iPhone, but certain types of content won't transfer. This content includes photos, Messages and attachments in Messages, Articulation Memos, and apps that aren't compatible with the device that you'atomic number 75 setting up. For example, apps compatible only with iPad won't transfer to your iPhone.

If your devices use iCloud and Messages in iCloud, your iMessages and text (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages are automatically stored in iCloud.

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