You have important stuff on your Apple iDevice right? If you’re like me, I have voice memos, app settings and data, contacts, calendars, reminders, Pages Documents, Number’s Spreadsheets, and photos. Are they being backed up, well of course they are, they’re being synced to iCloud, right?
Wrong!
The beautify of Apple iCloud syncing service is that any changes you make on one device will automatically be copied to all your other iCloud enabled devices as soon as they connect to the internet, if they aren’t already. So when you update the info for Uncle Virgil, add a new telephone number for Aunt Jean, that new girl’s contact info, those changes will be “pushed” or synced to your Mac or other iDevice.
The horror of iCloud syncing service is that any changes you make on one device will automatically be copied to all your other iCloud enabled devices as soon as they connect to the internet, if they aren’t already. So when you accidentally delete that new girls contact info along with everything else in your address book, before you can even scream let alone cry, those changes will pushed to your other Apple Devices.
Your best bet to protect content on your devices is to back up your devices to both a computer and a backup drive. At least once a week back your iDevices up to your computer by plugging them into your computer, then open iTunes, and click your device icon as if you were going to sync it, then scroll down the window and click backup. If you get a message window asking to backup apps, click yes. After your finish connect your Mac to either a backup drive or Apple Time Capsule, enable Time Machine (if it isn’t already), then select “Backup Now” from the Time Machine Menu icon.
Windows users, since you don’t have Apple Time Machine built in to your computer, Google “backup windows computer” or just click this link.