Chapter 8
Back Up, Store, and Share Files
Although backup and online storage might not have the same appeal as streaming movies, games, and photos, the same omnipresent iCloud connection they rely on among all your devices can make a real difference to how you work and keep organized. It also makes life a lot easier when performing basic functions like printing and sharing files among computers or with friends and family.
Back Up via iCloud
iCloud backup is available for any iOS device running iOS 5 or later with an iCloud account. With iCloud backup enabled, your device will automatically back up important information to the iCloud servers each day, and you can restore your device from that backup at any time. It also means that, should you replace your current device, you can restore the new device using the iCloud backup. This, of course, negates the requirement for your device to ever have to be connected directly to a computer to use iTunes for backup.
You can use either iCloud backup or the traditional iTunes backup method — but not both — to automatically back up your important information, such as your camera roll in the Photos App, your account settings, the contents of your apps, and iCloud documents. All your iTunes Store purchases, including books, movies, music, TV shows, and apps, are backed up, with an infinite amount of space available for them. Both iCloud backup and iTunes backup save all those files, but only iTunes backup saves media files that you didn’t ...
