How do you sync your iPhone?

[Chrisy]

Sync is Apps and multimedia files... Backups are settings, documents, app data, photos. I believe Backups are the same data to iCloud and iTunes on computer.

This is what I was wondering as well. I was under the impression that an iTunes backup backed up the entire phone as s carbon copy. And that iCloud backup only backed up certainty things..

 

[Janey_G]

This is what I was wondering as well. I was under the impression that an iTunes backup backed up the entire phone as s carbon copy. And that iCloud backup only backed up certainty things..

I thought this as well.

My phone does a backup to iCloud on its own and I do an occasional hookup to iTunes through my laptop. I also have a Time Capsule which keeps everything.

 

[qbnkelt]

Back up to both. Should never have a single point of failure.

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[Chrisy]

iTunes and iCloud include the same things. Neither backs up the apps themselves. Just data associated with those apps unless the developer has marked that data to not be backed up (like cached documents from Dropbox which can be retrieved again later). So photos in your camera roll, messages, app data, etc are the things that are backed up whether it is iTunes or iCloud.

I see the apps I have on iTunes. When I do a restore (starting with the phone as new) from there it loads my apps. Isn't that backing them up?

 

[BreakingKayfabe]

I see the apps I have on iTunes. When I do a restore (starting with the phone as new) from there it loads my apps. Isn't that backing them up?

It's just copying the apps from your phone to your computer so that in the event you do a restore on iTunes, iCloud won't actually have to pull the apps from the App Store using bandwidth like a restore on iCloud does.

 

[sam00]

icloud is so ridiculously slow, last time I remember when I did a restore took like 9hrs to restore like 4GB data. On a Pc restore took 20 minutes.

 

[BreakingKayfabe]

icloud is so ridiculously slow, last time I remember when I did a restore took like 9hrs to restore like 4GB data. On a Pc restore took 20 minutes.

It's dependent on your bandwidth.

 

[anon(5895641)]

iTunes.. Not gonna sync like 10+gb of photos/videos to icloud... I do backup my contact and notes through icloud though.

 

[sam00]

It's dependent on your bandwidth.

Not true I have super fast internet and still so slow

 

[Hendri Hendri]

Both but I prefer having my Apps on my computer this way I control my Apps and media, especially after hearing from many people that Apple took down Apps they owned from the App Store, also there are new complaints of People who paid for Apps then the App disappeared for a week from the App Store and when it came back it was under a different developer name and they couldn't install without paying again so not to get into a weird situation like that I bought a 3Tera external hard drive, got my iTunes running on it perfectly.
Also restoring from the iCloud backup is only possible after doing a complete restore on your iDevice but with iTunes no restoring of the device needed for restoring any of the backups that you got saved.


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Wow 3 T ?? How many percentage have u used ?

 

[50ShadesofDroidx]

Connect device through USB --> Open up iTunes --> Your phone should pop up under the tabs --> left click your device icon when it shows --> sync now.

 

[calebt]

Mac Mini, PC and iCloud at least three times a week, also super-duper clone HD twice a week. Never can have enough backups. Oh yea, don’t forget Time Machine running full time.

 

[Fit24]

I sync using iTunes.

 

[xtremeled]

Re: How do sync your iPhone?

Both, just to paranoid.

Just remember, Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.

 

[CrownIsle]

I have done it with iTunes as my first iPhone, all seems ok- though as i have read, that backup for some reason doesn't include the backup of "notes" sadly enough.

 

[hearmeoutx]

My phone syncs to iCloud every night. Every few weeks I make a backup on my MBA as well just in case.

 

[acerace113]

iTunes cause it's way faster than iCloud for me. I still use iCloud to backup my contacts though.


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