- We're gonna show you how
to back up your iPhone, but we're also going to talk
about the key differences between iCloud and computer backups, which are absolutely not the same thing. And should you be using both? - And how you can avoid
the two biggest mistakes, one for iCloud, one for your computer. First, let's talk about
backing up to iCloud. It really is the easiest way to do it. - With iCloud, everything
gets done on your iPhone. Cables, computers, not necessary. Good internet, necessary. - [David] Let's open up the Settings app and tap on your Apple ID at the very top of the screen. Tap on iCloud, and then
tap on iCloud Backup. Make sure that iCloud Backup switch is on. - Your iPhone will
automatically back itself up whenever it's connected to a power source, the screen is off, and
it's connected to wifi. It's always been like that. Happens every day. - You really need to be careful here about Back Up Over Cellular. This is a feature on 5G iPhones. Do you want your iCloud backups to happen using cellular data? I guess Apple thought 5G
would make it easy to do that, but you're gonna really
burn through your data. Long story short, if you
have wifi, turn this off. If you don't, you might wanna have it on. - If you don't have 5G
iPhone, you won't see it. Disregard it. You can also tap Back Up Now anytime you wanna backup
your iPhone to iCloud. iCloud backups are great,
but they're not for everyone. - Potential issue number one, it can take a long time to back up iCloud, especially if you don't have
a great internet connection and you have a lot of photos and videos. We're talking like days. Good internet, it's pretty good. - Issue number two,
it's recent or nothing. You can't go back to a specific
date and pull that back up. - Exactly. It's rolling backups. Only in the most recent. - Number three, privacy, and I think it's time to address
the elephant in the room, And that is the celebrity photo hack that happened over iCloud. - Right, or the totally inappropriately and not hilariously named The Fappening. - If you know what we're talking about, should you be concerned? Not really. Let me read you what Tim Cook told "The Wall Street Journal."
- Take my pillow out. - "Customers of the online storage service will receive an email alert
and push notifications when someone tries to login to an account with an unrecognized device." Additionally, your data is encrypted, and you can take it a step further with end to end encryption if you turn on two-factor authentication. So to do that, tap back to iCloud, upper left hand corner of the
screen, tap back to Apple ID, tap Password and Security. Then tap Turn On
Two-Factor Authentication. It's already on on this phone. What you'll do if you
don't have this turned on is enter a trusted phone number where you'll receive
a text or a phone call with that security code for two-factor. Issue number four,
storage space and money. You get five gigabytes for free. That's not enough for most people. Fortunately, Apple makes it very easy to buy additional iCloud storage space. - Go figure. In the US, 50 gigabytes, $1 a month. 200 gigs, $3 a month. Two terabytes or 2,000 gigs, $10 a month. Seems like a great deal
until you take into account the actual cost of buying
like a two terabyte hard drive on Amazon, which the
one we recommend is $62, or a four terabyte for $100. So you can do the math. These prices do add up over time. - So if you want upgrade your storage, tap back to Apple ID, upper left hand corner of
the screen, tap on iCloud, then tap on Managed Storage,
Change Storage Plan. And here's where you can buy
50, 200, or two terabytes. - Or you can just use your
iPhone like a digital camera, call a spade a spade, it's videos that take up the most data, and usually that's what
fills up people's iPhones. So you could just copy
them to your computer, or to that external drive, and then delete 'em from your phone. Also, that would save you
the money, if you wanted to. The most important reason
to buy iCloud Plus, well, it's kind of a no-brainer. If you have a home security camera. That video, if you didn't have this, would take up all the space in iCloud. But if you do, none of the home kit enabled
security cameras that you have take up any space or count against any space
in your iCloud storage. So it's like free storage
for home security cameras. And it also comes with
other cool iCloud features. - Yeah, iCloud Private Relay. That's still in beta. Still a little clunky. Hide My Email just cuts down on the amount of email tracking
that goes on on your phone. - Hides your email. - Custom email. It does hide your email. That's what it does. Custom Email Domain,
your own email domain. Just neat. - You mean like David-
- The @- - David@whatever. Yeah.
- Yeah. - But if you owned
whatever.com, you'd be rich. You'd sell that one for a lot of money. - If you have a Mac, running
MacOS 10.15 or newer, you'll back up your iPhone using Finder. If the Mac running 10.14 or
older, or if you have any PC, you're gonna use iTunes. - Let's do it.
- All right. Get my Lightning cable here. There we go. Under Locations in Finder on the left hand side of the screen, you will see the name of your iPhone here. And if you're doing
this for the first time, make sure that you tap Trust when this Trust This
Computer pop-up appears. Tap Trust. Yeah, and I just trusted it. So it should trust.
- Let's trust. - [David] Here in the center
of the screen, Backups, click the circle next to
back up all of the data on your iPhone to this Mac. And we recommend checking off the box next to encrypt local backup. - We sure do. This is the number one mistake people who use their computers
to back up their phones make, is not checking this box. Not because of the security thing, which is important, but because if you don't, it doesn't back up Keychain data, which means that you
will lose the passwords that are saved on your iPhone, which could be a real pain in the butt. So definitely check this box. It's better to remember one password here than to forget a thousand- - Right, and that's the thing.
- That are saved. When you do the encrypt the local backup, it does make you create a
password for that backup. Do not forget that password, because then you can't access that backup. Check that box, and I'm
just gonna pick a password. So now the backup is starting. If you choose not to
encrypt the local backup, you can click this Back Up Now button just to start the
process, but there you go. It's how to do it in Finder. Backup is now complete, and you'll see last backup
to this Mac today, 2:00 p.m. - All right, enough about Mac users. Let's show some love for the PC users and the older Mac users that run iTunes. Here we have a Mac that's running Windows. Also, the battery's dead. First step, open iTunes. So we just saw a popup about
a new software version. We don't need to do that. I'm just gonna tap Cancel. Install icon for Windows. Remind me later. Totally get to that. Tap this phone icon that
appears to the right of Music, sort of at the top left of the screen, and that's how you get to the
same look and type of thing we just saw on David's computer. It's very similar, where you
can encrypt a local backup. You just tap Back Up Now
to back up the phone. - While your iPhone is backing
up to Finder or iTunes, we wanna talk to you about
our membership program. - [Host] It's a great way
to back up your ability to talk with us, with a membership. - Back your way into a lot of great perks, member shout outs, custom badge
emojis, access to giveaways. Channel Zone member only Discord, whole bunch of good stuff. - Exactly. Let's talk about some
really important questions that people ask us all the time. Let's go back to the previous screen, and the question is, how do I see which backups aren't iCloud? This is really important for people who might have other older backups they don't need that
are clogging up space. So tap on Backups, and
then tap on This iPhone. And it's gonna break down
what's in this backup for you. And then you can also go to the bottom and tap Delete Backup
if it's an older backup. You could also turn off Photo
Library, like I said before, use it like a digital camera. Just back up your videos. - We just backed it up, and I noticed that 1.1 gigabytes are "Player Unknown: Battleground Mobile." That doesn't need to be in there. - That doesn't make any sense at all. 1.1 gigabytes?
- Yeah. Gigabytes, GB. - It's unbelievable. - So if you see something in here that's really large that you don't need, maybe just go ahead and turn that switch right off next time. Do you want to turn off
the PUBG MOBILE backups and delete the backup data from iCloud? I sure do.
- Yep. - There you go.
- There you go. That's totally unnecessary.
- So there's a iCloud storage tip for you. - That's a good one. Just like with the iCloud on a phone, if you've been backing
up your Apple devices for a long time, you can end up with
lots of old big backups that take up a lot of
space on your computer. So I just want to touch on
how to delete those backups. It's trickier on a PC, go
figure, than it is on a Mac. - Okay. - Right now it's plugged into the PC. What you're gonna wanna do, and this is a little bit complicated. David's gonna love this. Come down to this search bar down here, type in percent sign,
app data, percent sign, and then hit the Return key. Then go to Apple Computer, Mobile Sync. That makes sense. Backup. And there's that backup folder. That's the one we've just seen-
- Oh, just so easy. - It's just so easy. On a Mac, it's easier. Go ahead, unplug this
from the PC, and let's- - All right. You're the boss. Well, there's this nice,
big Manage Backups buttons. - Right.
- Buttons. Backup button.
- Backups button. - I'm trying to click on it. There we go. - Holy (beep). There's a perfect example of a problem that somebody might wanna fix. - I've been waiting for this moment. That's why I've been
saving all these backups. - [] We're gonna see how
much data David could save by deleting old backups. - Yep. So- - We're waiting, We're calculating the size.
- Calculating. - [David] Let's see. 115 gigabytes. - Yeah, do David has a
512 gigabyte computer, and 20% of the storage
is old iTunes backups. - [David] So let's say I don't
want this iPod 2013 backup. Two-finger hook on that. Just click on Delete. Are you sure you wanna delete the backup? - Delete. Trivia, can you restore an
iPad backup to an iPhone and vice versa? - I think it's a trick question. I think sometimes some of the files, yes, but not all of them. - Correct.
- Is that correct? (bell dinging)
(crowd cheering) - Yeah, well, the answer is yes, but some files won't transfer. For instance, if you transfer an
iPhone backup to an iPad, apps that only work on
iPhone won't transfer, but everything else will, pretty much. Actually, file attachments don't transfer. A couple things don't,
but most everything does. Short answer, yes. I can't think of any other questions. - I can't either. Maybe you could leave us them
in the comments section below. That's how to back up your iPhone. This is for everything you need to know about backing up your iPhone. I think we covered all the bases there. - We covered all the
bases and all the fields. Maybe we covered the end zones. - Sure. - We not only covered the
bases, we covered the- - We went above and beyond,
and if you like that, subscribe to this channel. Helps us out tremendously. - Thank you for watching. - Get my Lightning cable here. Let's plug that... This is good. It's all tangled up. - Yeah. You gotta plug
it into your computer. - Yeah. Lightning into the phone. Cable into the computer. And... - Want- - There we go. Under Locations in Finder on the left-
