[Rube8514]

What do all of you backup in the cloud?? To me, I would just think pictures, contacts, and things of that nature....why would I want to back up apps such as facebook, mail, safari, etc??

[Karenkcoulter]

Most apps have a certain amount of user data. This is what gets backed up not the app itself. Think settings within the app, favorites, saved games, etc.

[John Yester]

These are backed up:

Photos and videos in the Camera Roll
Device settings (for example: Phone Favorites, Wallpaper, and Mail, Contacts, Calendar accounts)
App data
Home screen and app organization
Messages (iMessage, SMS, and MMS)
Ringtones
Visual Voicemails


Also check Settings>iCloud>Documents & Data to be sure it's set to On.

[Kaitokomauri]

What do all of you backup in the cloud?? To me, I would just think pictures, contacts, and things of that nature....why would I want to back up apps such as facebook, mail, safari, etc??

You cannot choose what your iOS backups contain. All of the following data gets backed up if you enable iCloud backup:

[John Yester]

In addition you CAN NOT choose what to restore. It's full restore or nothing.

[Creative_geek]

My Phone automatically backs up everything when it is charging. I am sure all your Apple devices does this too.

[JustMe'D]

Hi, you can select which applications back up their data and see how much storage space each application is using, here's a guide with instructions on Apple's website:

iCloud backups contain purchased music, movies, TV shows, apps, and books, photos and videos in the camera roll, device settings, appdata, messages, ringtones, visual voicemails. iCloud doesn't backup music, movies and TV shows not purchased from the iTunes Store, podcasts and audio books and photos that were originally synced from your computer.

iTunes backups are better imho, as they are stored locally on your computer and data can be accessed if any troubles occur.

Cheers!

It doesn't hurt to do both an iCloud and and iTunes backup. That is what I do. You never know if you have to restore your device while away from home or your computer and restoring via an iCloud backup can save the day. You can almost always find internet access via Wi-Fi these days.

[impaler]

I do the nightly iCloud backups over WiFi, and do both a weekly iTunes encrypted backup (which stores passwords) and a local iCloud data backup of notes, calendars, reminders, address book, Safari bookmarks, and settings.