HT4859 If I use icloud on my iphone, does it save it to icloud and give my phone more storage space, or is it just strictly a back up?

I have never used icould on my iphone. I am a but confused on how it works. Is it just a back up source? or when i back up with icloud does it krrp it there and take it from my phone, leaving my phone with more storage? thank you for the help.

It is used for syncing/pushing data to your other devices, and for backing up. It does not add to the physical capacity of your device.

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Hubby has iPad with purchased games. I just got a mini iPad. Using iCloud and wifi can I get his games onto mini? Just purchased a new one and downloaded on both.

hubby has an iPad with purchased games. I just got a mini and would like to have these same games without having to pay again. We just purchased a new game that downloaded to both. Can I get his existing games on my mini? iCloud activated and wifi was used when we got new game.

Yes, you can get those games on your iPad Mini.
Sign into the iTunes and App Store section of the Settings with the same Apple ID used to buy those games. Then go to the App Store and click "Updates" and then "Purchases" and you should see the games your hubby bought with his device.
Hope that helps!

I presently use iCloud and run a laptop PC plus an iPad2 and an iPhone 4. I plan to travel and want to take my netbook, rather than the laptop PC for travelling. How do I get my apple tools to work mwith a new, temporary PC?

I presently use iCloud and run a laptop PC plus an iPad2 and an iPhone 4. I plan to travel and want to take my netbook, rather than the laptop PC for travelling. How do I get my apple tools to work mwith a new, temporary PC?

ayorico15 wrote:
It's not the pictures I'm worried about. I can get them off my phone without iTunes.
You can export ONLY Camera Roll photos and videos.
ayorico15 wrote:
All my apps were downloaded from my new apple ID. Not his.
Sign in to iTunes Store (on desktop itunes) with your ID. Plug your iphone to itunes, right click on it and choose transfer purchases.Right click again and choose backup. Then you can sync with iTunes.
ayorico15 wrote:
It's not the pictures I'm worried about. It's all my saved conversations
Your conversations will not deleted if you sync with your iTunes.
What is the problem with iCloud? iCloud has nothing to do with iTunes syncing.

I have changed the apple ID (email, but on my iphone , the icloud is stil asking me to log in whit the old email.And it is poping-up on every 10 seconds.I never used icloud, and i dont want to use it.I just dont know how to disable the icloud.

i have changed the apple ID (email) but on my iphone , the icloud is stil asking me to log in whit the old email.And it is poping-up on every 10 seconds.I never used icloud, and i dont want to use it.I just dont know how to disable the icloud.

If you see that pop up you enabled icloud. Whether you want or do not want now to use it irrelevant until you actually disable activation lock.
In order to do that you have to change your apple id back to do that just long enough to sign in and back out. System will ask you to verify, don't.
Just sign in on the prompt you getting and then logout. Once done, change apple id to what you have now and verify. Then decide if you want to
use icloud (who does not want to be able to track their phone if lost or stolen).

I rec'd an alert that my "Apple ID and phone no. are now being used for iCloud on a new iPhone." I am not using iCloud and I don't have a new iPhone. Is this something to worry about?

I rec'd an alert that my "Apple ID and phone no. are now being used for iCloud on a new iPhone." I am not using iCloud and I don't have a new iPhone. Is this something to worry about?

Howdy Libbidydooda,
There are a couple of possibilities that may apply to the email you have received regarding your Apple ID. The first is that the email may be a legitimate warning that your Apple ID has been compromised. For this reason I would suggest that you change the password to your Apple ID as soon as possible. Use the instructions on this page -
Apple ID: Changing your password - Apple Support
In order to increase security for your Apple ID you may want to set up and use two-step verification. See this article for information about it -
Frequently asked questions about two-step verification for Apple ID - Apple Support
The second possibilty is that the email is an attempt at "phishing" in order to get you to reveal personal information. Typically this is done with an email that looks like it comes from an official source but has links to web pages that, while they may look like they are real, may actually be gathering your information for use by others. This article has more information about phishing -
Identifying fraudulent "phishing" email - Apple Support
For this reason it is important that you do not follow any links in the email, as they may compromise your security.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

I lost my iPod Touch 4th generation and I've used iCloud and Find My iPhone

I lost my iPod Touch 4th G and I've tried using iCloud and Find My iPhone. But all it says is "Offline." Sadly it's not connected to the internet . There is also no passcode on the iPod so whoever has it can easily access to my personal information. Is there any other way to locate it without wifi?? (The answer is most likely no, but...... I still wanted to ask.)

No
- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod on the iPod in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up.
- You can also wipe/erase the iPod and have the iPod play a sound via iCloud.
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the iPod and report to police
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the iPod (it erases it) using it.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
- iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

I have 2 iphones, one for personal and one for business. I need my phones not to sync otherwise they will both ring all the time. How can I log out of my icloud and unsync my phones?

I have 2 iphones, one for personal and one for business. I need my phones not to sync otherwise they will both ring all the time. How can I log out of my icloud and unsync my phones?

Syncing your phones to the same iCloud account won't cause them to both ring all the time, it only puts the same contacts, calendars, and other synced data on the phone. The phones will only ring with someone calls the number associated with the phone.
If you want to stop using iCloud on one or both of the phones, go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, then choose Keep On My iPhone when prompted. This will disconnect them from iCloud and keep a copy of the synced data on the phone.

One of my calendars in the list has vanished. It is not simply unchecked, but gone. It was all my own personal appointments, the calendars for other family are all still there. How do I restore that one calendar. I use iCloud and calendars is on.

One of my calendars (one of several) has vanished. It is not simply unchecked, but is totally gone. I have a MacBook Pro, iPad mini, iPhone 5c - this calendar is gone from all devices. I do have and use iCloud and calendars is turned on. I have turned off calendars and back on as well as turned off iCloud and then the device itself. Nothing has worked and this has all my own personal appointments on it. Any ideas of how to restore this one calendar and make it available in my list of the other calendars again?

This is designed to be a user discussion area. To provide feedback directly to Apple you can go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/
There are a few applications out now that may be able to help you out. 1Password and LastPass are both password vault or lockers. They allow you to save passwords for applications and websites. That way you have a single password you use to keep the vault/locker secure and then all of your other passwords are stored for you so you don't have to write them down or try to remember them all.
https://agilebits.com/onepassword
https://lastpass.com/index.php

Icloud deleted recurring event and send notifications to everybody. I never used icloud and never deleted this event.

I never used icloud and never made any changes to my icloud.
Today icloud sent notifications to 100 people that the event was cancelled. I didnt made any changes. Those 100 people wrote "very good feedback"
This event was created not in icloud, it was created in Outlook on my work PC, and it was done half a year ago.
As I understand events from my outlook synced with icloud and iclud somehow made chamges without my permission.
But the most fummy thing that event is still present in icloud, in Outlook and in my Iphone also.
Please FIX or explain this, I dodnt want to have a repeat of this bug tomorrow

Thanks, yeah I called Apple Customer Services and the guy said that the only thing I can do is restore my phone from my latest iTunes backup.
The screen I got when this debacle happened literally said: "What would you like to do with the previously synched iCloud contacts on your iPhone?" It's so poorly worded, I thought it was just referring to the contacts that were just put on my phone from my computer, hense the "previously synched iCloud contacts" but when I was on the phone with the guy he was saying that I misunderstood the screen.
I don't think I'm crazy, they could have worded it better and made it more clear they meant ALL contacts deleted, not just the ones synched from iCloud.

I'm using iCloud and can't find where my photos are on my pc

I'm using iCloud and can't find where my photos are on my pc. Can't find them on my iPad either.

They're in the backup of your iPhone which is created by iTunes automatically as part of the sync operation. But you can't get at them that way.
With your iPhone connected to your PC, use whatever image-yanking software you would use with any other USB camera in order to get the images from your phone's Camera Roll onto your computer.
See IMPORTING PHOTOS TO YOUR COMPUTER in this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236

My daughter and I both have iPhone 4s'. Last night she switched to ios7 and I am still using ios6. I use the find my iPhone app to keep track of her and since the update it no longer works. Her phone says its on. ???

My daughter and I both have iPhone 4s'. Last night she switched to ios7 and I am still using ios6. I use the find my iPhone app to keep track of her and since the update it no longer works. Her phone says its on but when I try and locate it from either my phone or laptop it shows it offline. Any suggestions. It's my only peace of mind! Thanks!

Does she have her own iCloud account? You can have more than one iCloud account installed on a device, and some users install a secondary iCloud account which is common to others in the family to allow "Find My iPhone" to be used from one account while keeping separate iCloud contacts, mail, etc.
But with iOS 7 although you can still have multiple iCloud accounts installed, only the "primary" iCloud account supports "Find my iPhone". So if her iCloud account is the primary, you can no longer track her from your iCloud account. Is that what happened in your case?

Using iCloud and iTunes match, should I still wirelessly sync with my computer iTunes?

Using an iPhone 4 with the latest updates. I keep getting an error message syncing over my wireless network that says "Cannot sync phone. There are too many files open" from iTunes on my compter. Should I turn off the wireless syncing now that I'm using iCloud and iTunes Match?
There are 4 iPhones that are using this feature on our network, plus AppleTV 2.

Even though you have iTunes match and iCloud, there are several other types of media that aren't included in either of the services, such as movies, photos etc, if you aren't syncing any of these to your phones, then you may well be able to turn iTunes wifi sync off.
Personally, I would want to find the cause of the error message and use the iTunes sync for backup, I consider it far more reliable and convenient than iCloud for back up

How can I get my data from a old iPad to a new iPad using iCloud and not iTunes

How can I get my data from a old iPad to a new iPad using iCloud and not iTunes

Restore from the iCloud backup - assuming that you were backing up to iCloud in the first place. If you weren't using iCloud for backup - then you are out of luck.
If you were backing up to iCloud - you have to erase all contents on the iPad in Settings>General>Reset>Erase all content and settings - before you can restore from the iCloud backup.
Read this article before you do anything else
http://gigaom.com/apple/ios-101-set-up-and-restore-from-icloud-backup/

So when I try to update or download an app it says I don't have enough storage. I don't know how to use iCloud and stuff soo what do I do? Help! I don't wanna delete any pics either.

So when I try to update or download an app it says I don't have enough storage. I don't know how to use iCloud and stuff soo what do I do? Help! I don't wanna delete any pics either.

JUst experienced the exact same problem after changing password.Getting same message. Hope someone has an answer for this.

How to use iCloud and what is it's main use?

i just don"t have any idea of using icloud and what help it may provide me.

iCloud is mainly a sync tool. It syncs your content across all your devices.
Here is some more information on iCloud and it's uses:
Apple - iCloud - Your content. On all your devices.

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