Backing up your iPhone is always a good idea. Maybe your phone is misbehaving or has already glitched and you hope to fix it by restoring it to factory conditions and applying the latest backup. Or perhaps you're upgrading to a new iPhone and want to transfer all your current data. Whatever the reason, you can back up your phone and restore the backup if needed on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apple offers two backup methods: 1) Back up your phone to your computer via iTunes; or 2) Back up your phone to the cloud via iCloud. What are the pros and cons of each method? With iTunes, you don't have to rely on the cloud but you can restore the backup only from the iTunes account on your computer. If your computer crashes or goes down, there goes your backup. But you can encrypt an iTunes backup if you want to retain your passwords and other sensitive data. With iCloud, your backup isn't affected by problems with your computer and is available anywhere. You back up your phone to iCloud via Wi-Fi from the phone itself, so you don't even need iTunes. An iCloud backup is automatically encrypted. But depending on the amount of data on your phone, you might have to upgrade to a paid iCloud account. Apple doles out only 5GB of iCloud space for free. The paid plans give you 50GB of storage for 99 cents a month, 200GB for $2.99 a month, or 2TB for $9.99 a month. As one example, my 256GB iPhone X with around 170GB of data required 21GB of space on iCloud for its backup, so I opted for the 50GB storage plan just to get started. You can back up your iPhone manually both through iTunes and iCloud. However, you may want to opt for an automatic backup so you don't have to remember to trigger it yourself. For the automatic backup to occur through iTunes, your phone must be plugged in, and the option to Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected must be checked. The automatic backup then occurs whenever you connect your phone to your computer and open iTunes. For an automatic iCloud backup, your phone must be turned on and connected to the internet through Wi-Fi. It must be connected to a power source, and your screen must be locked or turned off. An automatic backup via iCloud kicks off every 24 hours after the last successful backup. Here's how to get started on iTunes and via iCloud.This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.
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Backing up your iPhone is always a good idea. Maybe your phone is misbehaving or has already glitched and you hope to fix it by restoring it to factory conditions and applying the latest backup. Or perhaps you're upgrading to a new iPhone and want to transfer all your current data. Whatever the reason, you can back up your phone and restore the backup if needed on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apple offers two backup methods: 1) Back up your phone to your computer via iTunes; or 2) Back up your phone to the cloud via iCloud. What are the pros and cons of each method? With iTunes, you don't have to rely on the cloud but you can restore the backup only from the iTunes account on your computer. If your computer crashes or goes down, there goes your backup. But you can encrypt an iTunes backup if you want to retain your passwords and other sensitive data. With iCloud, your backup isn't affected by problems with your computer and is available anywhere. You back up your phone to iCloud via Wi-Fi from the phone itself, so you don't even need iTunes. An iCloud backup is automatically encrypted. But depending on the amount of data on your phone, you might have to upgrade to a paid iCloud account. Apple doles out only 5GB of iCloud space for free. The paid plans give you 50GB of storage for 99 cents a month, 200GB for $2.99 a month, or 2TB for $9.99 a month. As one example, my 256GB iPhone X with around 170GB of data required 21GB of space on iCloud for its backup, so I opted for the 50GB storage plan just to get started. You can back up your iPhone manually both through iTunes and iCloud. However, you may want to opt for an automatic backup so you don't have to remember to trigger it yourself. For the automatic backup to occur through iTunes, your phone must be plugged in, and the option to Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected must be checked. The automatic backup then occurs whenever you connect your phone to your computer and open iTunes. For an automatic iCloud backup, your phone must be turned on and connected to the internet through Wi-Fi. It must be connected to a power source, and your screen must be locked or turned off. An automatic backup via iCloud kicks off every 24 hours after the last successful backup. Here's how to get started on iTunes and via iCloud.This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.