Most of us take our iPhones everywhere. They carry essential data like photos, videos, text messages, and app data. But iPhones can get lost or damaged, and while that can be terribly painful, you can ...

It's not enough to just let your iPhone back up to iCloud, not when you need to be sure you won't lose anything important. Here are your options for backing up iOS devices. Steve Jobs once made a ...

So I've always tried to follow the 3-2-1 rule for personal backups (3 copies of the data, 2 backups, 1 backup off-site). My NAS crashed a couple of years ago, right around the same time as a house ...

Thanks to Apple's iCloud, keeping an always up-to-date backup of your iPhone or iPad on Apple's servers is nearly effortless. Ditto for restoring an iOS device from an iCloud backup. If you're a Mac ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Some of our most precious data is stored on ...

Much has been made of the fact that Apple provides only 5 GB of iCloud storage space for free. That isn’t enough to back up and restore most iPhones and iPads at this point. Apple has now responded to ...

Restoring your iPhone using an iCloud backup is a straightforward process that ensures all your data is transferred seamlessly to your new device. Whether you’ve recently upgraded to a new iPhone or ...