HT204053 How can I login to icloud and retrieve photos and contacts?

I am not sure if I understand icloud. If we backup and have storage shouldn't we
be able to look into the storage to retrieve items? Help?
Sunshinedays99

iCloud does two things independently.
1) Syncs data (contacts, calendars, tasks, bookmarks etc.) between the iCloud servers and your devices and computers setup with iCloud. Most of this data you can log-in at icloud.com and look at, edit or whatever.
2) iOS device backups, which you can use to restore your data to a new iOS device or a newly restored device. You can't see this data, as it is only used for device the backup and restore process. Nor can individual items be restored.

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3. After that you will have the opportunity to sync and backup your personal mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, notes etc. completely separated from your husbands account.
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Now log back in with your new AppleID and it will create a new iCloud account for your device.
If you had a backup of your device in the old iCloud account, your Mom can go into her storage settings on her iCloud account on her device and delete your backup file (or you could delete it from your device before you delete that iCloud account).

HT204053 How can I login to icloud and retrieve photos and contacts?

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