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Just an FYI for everyone: you can use a local backup system with iOS. Fully encrypted local backups over WiFi (connect your iPhone to your Mac or Windows iTunes

Just an FYI for everyone: you can use a local backup system with iOS. Fully encrypted local backups over WiFi (connect your iPhone to your Mac or Windows iTunes, use full backups - encrypted, and enable backups over WiFi). Your phone will backup when charging overnight on the same WiFi network as your designated backup Mac/PC. The backup files are encrypted with a different password chosen when you set it up so it doesn't rely on only keeping your backup computer secure.

Crosseye_Jack 5y ago
Which is handy for us geeks who stereotypically would have a higher chance of running a computer 24/7 and so backing up locally can be "just as painless as iCloud" for us. However it doesn't really help the other 99.9% of iOS users. Even if they did, you then have the chance of the user forgetting the password they used to encrypt the data, simply because you only need the password when you a) want to change the password b) use a local backup. Side note - doesn't really have nothing to do with backups :-P: When I took my phone in for a battery swap (Apple did it for free so I didn't botrher replacing it myself) they asked if I had backed up my phone as there was a small tiny chance they would have to wipe the phone. I said I had. When they were booking it into the system the person booking it in questioned me on the backup because his software wasn't showing a backup. The person booking it in was looking for iCloud backups.
sandstrom 5y ago
It's great that this exist (and it's good that you're pointing it out!). But it's pretty basic, unfortunately. If Apple would just spend a bit more effort, running iPhone backups to your mac via Wifi regularly would be totally viable. It still is, but not's not very convenient. For example, I cannot exclude certain categories from these backups. I'd like to exclude photos, since they are already on my computer and I don't want needless duplicates of them. Same with e.g. downloaded podcast episodes. Similarly, it seems like I can't backup my contacts, since those are already in iCloud. https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/i936ov/how_to_exclude_photos_from_iphone_physical_backup/ https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/i936ov/how_to_ex...
- HWR_14 5y ago
  > I'd like to exclude photos, since they are already on my computer and I don't want needless duplicates of them. Same with e.g. downloaded podcast episodes. The biggest iPhone is 256 GB. Hard drive space is cheap. Very cheap. So cheap that I would rather backup programs stopped trying to be so clever to save me space. Or allowing me to be that clever.

Crosseye_Jack 5y ago

Which is handy for us geeks who stereotypically would have a higher chance of running a computer 24/7 and so backing up locally can be "just as painless as iCloud" for us. However it doesn't really help the other 99.9% of iOS users. Even if they did, you then have the chance of the user forgetting the password they used to encrypt the data, simply because you only need the password when you a) want to change the password b) use a local backup. Side note - doesn't really have nothing to do with backups :-P: When I took my phone in for a battery swap (Apple did it for free so I didn't botrher replacing it myself) they asked if I had backed up my phone as there was a small tiny chance they would have to wipe the phone. I said I had. When they were booking it into the system the person booking it in questioned me on the backup because his software wasn't showing a backup. The person booking it in was looking for iCloud backups.

sandstrom 5y ago

It's great that this exist (and it's good that you're pointing it out!). But it's pretty basic, unfortunately. If Apple would just spend a bit more effort, running iPhone backups to your mac via Wifi regularly would be totally viable. It still is, but not's not very convenient. For example, I cannot exclude certain categories from these backups. I'd like to exclude photos, since they are already on my computer and I don't want needless duplicates of them. Same with e.g. downloaded podcast episodes. Similarly, it seems like I can't backup my contacts, since those are already in iCloud. https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/i936ov/how_to_exclude_photos_from_iphone_physical_backup/ https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/i936ov/how_to_ex...

HWR_14 5y ago
> I'd like to exclude photos, since they are already on my computer and I don't want needless duplicates of them. Same with e.g. downloaded podcast episodes. The biggest iPhone is 256 GB. Hard drive space is cheap. Very cheap. So cheap that I would rather backup programs stopped trying to be so clever to save me space. Or allowing me to be that clever.