


Tapping ‘Back Up Now’ will immediately start the process. If it’s off, the switch is gray and the selector is on the left side of the switch. The user can tap their user ID, which appears at the top of the Settings app, then select ‘iCloud,’ then ‘iCloud Backup’ and make sure it is switched on, which will make the switch appear to be green and the white dot is to the right. When connected to Wi-Fi, the option can be found in the Settings app. Related: How To Clean Up iCloud Storage To Make Spaceīacking up an iPhone with iCloud is remarkably easy. iCloud is now the automatic choice for most users needing to make online backups or share files between various types of Apple devices. It took until 2011 for Apple to launch iCloud, which offered a free storage tier and integrated perfectly with the iPhone and iPad. It was a paid service and never really took off like other popular services from Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox did. In the early days of the iPhone, full backups were only possible with a Mac computer, but Apple has offered some form of cloud storage since its MobileMe internet suite in 2000. That’s why it's very helpful to have more than one way to start an automatic backup of an iPhone. Losing contacts, logins, and other info can result in several hours of restoration efforts and some data may never be recovered. Apple makes backing up an iPhone quick and easy, which is important because smartphones have become critical to daily life for many and often contain a lot of important data.
