the Cloud

[Kate]

I always back up my iDevices to my computer, but I have a friend who only backs up to the cloud and is asking advice. If she backs up everything to the cloud, can she restore to a new device and have the exact same setup on the new device?

Kate

[Filliam H. Muffman]

My opinion is that relying on only the cloud pretty much guarantees that the data will be lost.

Being able to restore to a new device requires that it be similar hardware and be running almost the same OS. If they have an iPhone 4 and running iOS 7, don't expect that everything can be restored to a 6S running iOS 11.

[GuyGene]

See? It DOES NOT just work, and, yes, Apple does make junk. This stuff is not simple nor secure.

[cbelt3]

"The Cloud" == "Someone else's server"

[Lew Zealand]

GuyGene wrote:
See? It DOES NOT just work, and, yes, Apple does make junk. This stuff is not simple nor secure.

See what?

[modelamac]

kate,

In theory, yes. You can restore to a new iDevice from a backup to the cloud, but only what was backed up.

Kate wrote:
I always back up my iDevices to my computer, but I have a friend who only backs up to the cloud and is asking advice. If she backs up everything to the cloud, can she restore to a new device and have the exact same setup on the new device?

Kate

[NewtonMP2100]

....this thread has helped me to.....look at Clouds.....from both sides now.......