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 point of telling an audience that he hadn’t backed up in all the years he had been at NeXT. However, that wasn’t because backing up is unimportant. It was because it was so important that every NeXT employee’s data was automatically backed up for them.
Maybe Jobs brought that ethos to Apple, because the company has worked to progressively make backups easier – and unthinkingly so. You see this whenever you change iPhones and all of your apps, and their data, appear on the new one.
But as convenient as that is, it also makes you unthinkingly assume that your data is safe. It isn’t, not unless you take positive steps – and regularly.
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