Thanks to iCloud, we can Back up all the information on our iPhone in the easiest way possible. What more do we need to do? Nothing more than enabling backup in iCloud the first time and letting our iPhone take care of everything for us.
As long as the iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network, in some cases also using 5G, and connected to power, a full backup of all content will be created directly in the cloud. A copy that we can use, later, to restore the information if necessary or to migrate the content to a new iPhone.
Lots of information that doesn’t need to be copied and takes up valuable space in the cloud
Given the amount of information this copy stores, it is easy for it to quickly increase in size. And this is important, because if we want make the most of 5GB of free storage that Apple offers in iCloud, it will be necessary to monitor the size of these copies.
Fortunately, there are several things we can do to reduce the space they take up and, above all, continue to protect all the important information on our iPhone. First, but let’s see how much space our backup is currently taking up on the cloud. The steps to follow for this are:
- We open the application Settings on our iPhone or iPad.
- At the top, we touch our name.
- We entered iCloud.
- we play in Manage account space.
- We enter the backup section.
Those who arrive here, there are already several things to take into account. The first is check if we have more than one backup stored. If so, let’s see if there are any repeat or old ones. Let’s pay special attention to copies of an iPhone that we no longer use or old copies of the same iPhone that it is no longer a good idea to keep. We can delete any of the copies that we don’t want to keep by simply touching it and then selecting Remove oh Delete and disable copying.
Immediately after, we turn our attention to the copy we want to keep, the one that contains the label under its name It’s the iPhone. We touch it to enter it and we consulted the copy size. The goal is to get this size below 5GB, and here are a few things we can do.
The first and easiest is to look at the section at the bottom, where we see what occupies the most in the backup copy at hand. play on Show all apps To see the full list, we can deactivate all those whose information does not need to be saved in the cloud. Keep in mind that it is better to exclude one of the top apps than the bottom 10, as the list is ordered from largest to smallest.
The second thing we can do, looking at the applications that take up the most space in our backup, is to delete the information from them. This is something we have to do manually, open the application on our iPhone and delete the content which we no longer need.
Finally, and this is more a question of comfort than available space, let’s take into account the fact that not all information synced to the cloud is saved in the backup. In other words: the photos that we synchronize directly with iCloud, for example, since they are already in iCloud, they are not part of the backup. The only thing the backup remembers about the photos, in this case, is that the content is in iCloud and after a restore it just downloads it again.
In this sense, it is likely that we want to take advantage of the advantages offered by the synchronization of our photo library with the cloud. Something which, as we have just seen, It will not increase or reduce the size we have in iCloud make copies of our iPhone or iPad.
Finally say that expanding the free 5GB to 50GB costs just $0.99 per month. Let’s keep in mind the importance of having a backup copy of all our files and consider if, instead of having to reduce the information stored beyond what would be preferable, we can consider increasing the space. In short, knowing that we have a backup copy of our entire iPhone, at all times, always up to date and without us having to do anything, is undoubtedly very, very interesting.
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