iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customise and use the homepage
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
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- Photos on iCloud.com overview
- View your photos and videos
- Hide your photos and videos
- Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
- Upload and download photos
- Add a title or caption
- Organise photos and videos
- Add photos and videos to Favourites
- Play a slideshow of photos
- Delete and recover photos and videos
- Share photos and videos
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows computer
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
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What is iCloud Backup?
You can use iCloud to automatically back up your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iCloud Backup. Your device is backed up over Wi-Fi when it is turned on, locked and connected to a power source.
iCloud Backup includes information and settings on your device that are not otherwise stored in iCloud. If you turn on an iCloud feature, that information is not included in your iCloud backup. See the Apple Support article What does iCloud back up?
If you turn off iCloud Backup for a device, any backups stored in iCloud are kept for 180 days before being deleted.
Set up iCloud Backup
Turn on iCloud Backup in iCloud settings on each iPhone, iPad or iPod touch that you want to back up to iCloud. You can choose which apps and data to back up, and you can also manually back up your device at any time.
Manage your iCloud backups
You can view which devices have iCloud Backup turned on. You can also delete an iCloud backup you no longer need — for example, for a device you no longer have.
You can also use your computer to back up your device. See the Apple Support article How to back up your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.