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That's not Apple collecting your data. That's you voluntarily opting in to an optional backup strategy, which you as a user have full control of.
by Bud 8y ago
That's not Apple collecting your data. That's you voluntarily opting in to an optional backup strategy, which you as a user have full control of.
- tjoff 8y agoCan you use your own NAS as backup target?
- freehunter 8y agoYou can back up locally via iTunes, yes.
- saurik 8y agoTo underscore this further: the iCloud backup system only came into existence long after Apple launched the iPhone, which came with an "Apple is not involved at all" iTunes backup flow. I would go so far as to say they only added iCloud backup because people asked for it: you don't have to use it (I definitely don't).
- reaperducer 8y agoAs a point of interest, I believe one of the big motivating factors for iCloud was to help people who have iPhones, but don't have computers. Many people in the general public don't realize that you can have an iPhone and not have a computer, as long as you enable iCloud so you can migrate all of your apps and other information from one iPhone to another. If you're doing an upgrade from one iPhone to another, you only have to turn on your iCloud for a time before the upgrade, then once you migrate, you can turn it off again. Though, if you have no computer backup you should really keep iCloud on all the time so that if your phone gets eaten by a tiger, all your stuff can appear on your new phone. I remember Mr. Jobs talking about this once. Not the tiger part. That was just me.
- thisacctforreal 8y agoYes, and you can even install libimobiledevice and create some scripts to have the NAS do it automatically when you connect your iPhone via USB. idevicepair and idevicebackup2 are the relevant utilities, I've used them successfully on macOS and Linux. http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ http://www.libimobiledevice.org/