TS4576 Re: Confusion over automatic iCloud back ups.

I am getting totally confused, as to the procedure for automatic iCloud backups. The Apple Support suggests that as long as you are connected to Wi Fi and are plugged in and locked, iCloud will 'automatically' back up. My last back up, shows as 28 July 2014 and it is now 8 August. During that time, I would have definitely been plugged in and been on Wi Fi, so why has it not backed up? My usual means of backing up, is by going into Settings, iCloud, and clicking on Back Up Now. Why is my device, not backing up, 'automatically' where am I going wrong? Any guidance will be much appreciated.

If you are locking the screen before plugging it into your charger, try plugging it into your charger before locking the screen. (When you lock the screen on battery power, wifi drops to conserver battery power. I'm not sure that it will reconnect to wifi when you plug it in with the screen locked if it has already disconnected from your wifi.)

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Hello helpful peoples. I am in need of a back up from my Icloud that is nolonger available through the normal routine. Is there anyway to access older icloud back ups from the 3 that are given to you as an option when you delete and restore? Anyway through Apple? Or Icloud? Can you pay for such a service?
Thanks in advance.

What you see in the backup list is what you have to choose from. Many users see only one backup, not 3. Others see 3.
You can't get any older backups as they are deleted from the servers. You can't pay anyone to get back old backups - they're gone, I'm sorry to say.

Can the iPhone 6 save 2 iCloud back-ups?

I changed my phone recently. The 2 phones are using different accounts for iCloud. Can the iPhone 6 keep the 2 back-ups at the same time without erasing the content of any of them? If so, how to?
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This is a customer forum. Please edit your post to remove personal and account information.
if you phone arrived damaged you should have notified the seller immediately by phone.
if the phone did not arrive damaged, the you damaged it. Dropping the phone is not the only way.
after 14 days, the buyers remorse periods over and you are stuck with a phone you can send to repair service, but will have to pay the deductible.

Old iCloud Back-Ups

My iCloud is running out of storage and I would like to delete some of the old back-ups from previous phones, but I want to retrieve the photos from those back-ups first. Is this possible and if so, how do I do it?

First create a current backup of your phone by going to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup and tapping Back Up Now at the bottom. I recommend you also back it up to your computer just in case. To do this, connect the phone to your computer, open iTunes, click on the name of your phone in iTunes, then go to the Summary tab of your iTunes sync settings and click Back Up Now. Finally, go to File>Devices>Transfer Purchases. You might also want to save your photo stream photos to your camera roll, then import the camera toll to your computer for safekeeping as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.
Then to restore your iCloud backup you go to Settings>General>Reset, tap Erase All Content and Settings, go through the setup screens on the phone and when given the option, choose Restore from iCloud backup and follow the prompts. Be sure your phone is connected to wifi and your charger while it is restoring the backup as this will take a while to finish.

Family Share iCloud Data for iCloud Back ups

Is there a way that I can share my 200GB of iCloud space with my sisters to have them back up to my shared iCloud? They go over the 5 free GB and I have 180GB free to use. I feel that it is stupid for them to each pay more a month when I have plenty to go around.
Thanks.

Hello 13hartc,
no, unfortunately, iCloud storage cannot be shared between different iCloud accounts.
Best regards.

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Delete the music by syncing with iTunes with the music unelected then re-select the music and sync with iTunes to place the music back on your iPad.

Can I delete my icloud back ups with out loosing my current data on my iphone 5

Hey guys. I was wondering if I can delete my iCloud backup with out loosing my current data on my iphone 5? I can not up date my phone because it says I do not have enough storage available. Yes, I have purchased more storage space on iCloud.
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Yes you could delete backups without loosing anything on your device, but iCloud storage has nothing to do with your local device capacity. I guess that your device is just full and that you have to delete something like apps, movies etc to free up some space for other content.
iCloud uses its storage only for
Photos and videos in the Camera Roll
Device settings (for example: Phone Favorites, Wallpaper, and Mail, Contacts, Calendar accounts)
App data
Home screen and app organization
Messages (iMessage, SMS, and MMS)
Ringtones
Visual Voicemails
purchases of apps, music, videos do not count against your iCloud storage capacity ( but please see also iCloud backup and restore overview http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4859).

Hi there, My Hard Disk space on the Mac Book is running low, I found about 105gigs in Back Ups, after I moved my ballooning Aperture Library to an external hard disk. Can you help?

Just checked on Lion - somehow I have over 100gigs in Back Ups, but much less in pictures. I moved Itunes, Aperture Libraries to my external hard Disk. Still running low on the 250 gigs space. Any tips on how I can free this are much appreciated!
Thanks!

Did you actually move / delete the data on your HDD?
When you click and drag to an external drive, it automatically copies instead of moves.
What are these backups & their location?
You could try and app similar to WhatSize.

Safely delete Time Machine back-ups?

I have an external drive that I use for back-ups, a 1TB passport. Well my back-ups have now filled up the drive as it has made folders of each bi-weekly back-up. My question is it safe to delete some of the folders of the older back-ups to make room? I am assuing I only need the latest back-up, but I want to make sure before I delete anything. Also is there a setting so I can just over write the back-ups and not create a folder each time using Time Machine?
Thanks,
Christopher

Christopher,
No it is NOT safe to delete TM folders.Your options are pretty simple;
1) Continue to use TM as you are and let it operate teh way it should.
2) Invest in a larger EHD, you can move your existing TM data to the new drive. Instructions are on Copy your Time Machine backups to a new larger drive

How do you remove back up data from the memory storage? my storage data states that i have over 80gb of data used for back ups and i dont know why as i use a external hard drive as a time machine .now my 250gb flash storage is nearly full

how do you remove back up data from the memory storage? my storage data states that i have over 80gb of data used for back ups and i dont know why as i use a external hard drive as a time machine .now my 250gb flash storage is nearly full.. HELP!

When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.

How do I get the Time Capsule to automatly erase old back ups?

I have a 1TB Master HD in my Mac Pro that I back up using a 1 TB Time Capsule. So far I've used just over 500GBs on the Hard Drive which has really stumped my Time Capsule because it comes up saying it needs 400 odd gbs to do a full back-up of my Master HD. So now when ever its on and trys to do a back up it comes up failed because it says it doesnt have enough room to do its thing. Arnt Time Capsules supposed to delete the older back ups once its full? I exclude all other HDs from the Time Capsules back-up but I cant workout what more I can do....I can understand it if a 1TB Time Capsule could only back up 900gbs of Data but I'm only asking this 1TB TCaps to back up 500odd gbs. Anything I could or should be doing? I dont use the Airport as I only bought it to do backups. And because I have a wireless router for the houses PCs, Apple cant even tell me why I cant back up wirelessly so I have to use an ethernet cable.
Any advice or help would be much apperciated!

Time Machine has no problem automatically erasing old backups if your new backup is a normal size for an "incremental" backup. So it can handle things up to approximately 2-3 GB without running into trouble.
If the backup is too large, then you have to decide whether to erase the Time Capsule disk entirely and start over with a new "master" backup and move forward.....or.....manually delete enough backups to create enough space on the drive....which can get tricky.
See Pondini's excellent Time Machine - Troubleshooting, in particular #C4 and the pink box.
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/C4.html

Can I have multiple iPhones with unique back ups using one icloud account?

Hello forum users,
Can I have multiple iPhones with unique back ups using one icloud account?
I would like to back up and restore 4 different iPhones, 1 iPad, a MacBook and 1 MacBook Pro using the same single iCloud account.
If so, how is this done?
Many thanks

Sharing an iCloud account between two devices can be done without causing issues with iMessage and FaceTime, just go into Settings for each of these functions and designate separate points of contact (i.e. phone number only, or phone number and unique email address). While that works, you'll then face the problem where a phone call to one iPhone will ring both if on the same Wi-Fi network -- but again, that can be avoided by changing each phone's settings.
Rather than do all that, don't fight it -- use separate IDs for iCloud. You can still use a common ID for iTunes purchases (the ID for purchases and iCloud do not have to be the same) or you can use Family Sharing to share purchases from a primary Apple account.

HT5824 I have 4 calendars on my ICloud at work - I used to be able to view one calendar at a time or multiple - now when I check off to see just one calendar it automatically comes back on...?

I have 4 calendars on my Icloud - I used to be able to view one at a time or multiple just by clicking on the check mark - now when I want to view just one calendar I click off the check mark but it automatically comes back on. Any ideas?

Can anyone help?

I got a new phone and it won't back up anything on to my icloud because it says there isn't enough storage space, can I delete old back ups?

I am not good with technology at all. I upgraded my 3GS to a 4S and now it won't back up to my iCloud. it keeps telling me that the icloud is full and I don't have enough room to back it up.I was wondering if there is away to delete the old back ups in order to free up space?

If you no longer need the backups, you can delete them by going to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage, tap the name of device you want to delete the backup for (under Backups at the top), then tap Delete Backup. This will permanently delete it from your account, freeing up the storage it occupies.

My mini Ipad says I haven't backed it up to iCloud for 2 weeks. Back ups happen when this ipad is plugged in, locks, and connected to wifi. The ok button doesn't work, I can't open settings to make sure wifi is connected. Nothing works!!!

My mini Ipad says: I haven't backed it up to iCloud for 2 weeks. Back ups happen when this ipad is plugged in, locks, and connected to wifi.
The ok button doesn't work, I can't open settings to make sure wifi is connected. Nothing works!!! I have it pluggled into my computer but apparently it isn't backing up since nothing has changed. it is unuseable!

Reset iPad
Hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears
Note: Data will not be affected.

TS4576 Re: Confusion over automatic iCloud back ups.

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