{"id":57881,"date":"2016-06-21T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=57881"},"modified":"2021-12-22T23:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T07:00:25","slug":"quick-look-backup-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/quick-look-backup-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Look at How to Backup Your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iphone-backup-background-cover.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"alt=\"iPhone Backup\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iphone-backup-background-cover.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iphone-backup-background-cover-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iphone-backup-background-cover-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iphone-backup-background-cover-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iphone-backup-background-cover-560x319.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/iphone-backup-background-cover-220x124.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">It seems hard to believe but the iPhone is still less than 10 years old. Before the launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007, a \u201csmartphone\u201d was basically just a glorified email reader attached to a rudimentary cell phone. Times certainly have changed. Today with up to 128GB of storage, the iPhone has become the central digital device in millions of people\u2019s lives. But how do you protect all of that data?<\/p>\n<p>Here at Backblaze, we get asked all the time about how to backup an iPhone. A lot of people think their iPhones are automatically backed up to iCloud, but the reality is unless you pay for an upgrade you are only backing up a maximum of 5GB of data, which is usually only a small fraction of the data you have on your phone. Some companies pretend to back up your iPhone, but all they back up are your photos and contacts\u2014it&#8217;s not a complete backup. It can be pretty confusing. With that in mind, we decided to write a guide to help people protect all their iPhone data: <a href=\"\/blog\/how-to-backup-iphone-and-ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Definitive Guide to iPhone Backup.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But before we get into the details on how to back up your iPhone, let\u2019s take a look at the remarkable history of the iPhone in this infographic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/History-Growth-of-the_iPhone-iCloud.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-eJ69nS30\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-57911 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/History-Growth-of-the_iPhone-iCloud.jpg\" alt=\"how to backup your iphone \" width=\"600\" height=\"4432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<h3>Share This Infographic on Your Site<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><textarea onclick='this.focus();this.select()' style='width:700px;height:90px'><strong>Please include attribution to Backblaze when sharing this graphic.  Thanks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=' https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/quick-look-backup-iphone\/'><img src='https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/History-Growth-of-the_iPhone-iCloud.jpg' alt='How to Backup iPhone' 540px border='0' \/><\/a><\/textarea><\/p>\n<p>Quite the evolution from its launch in 2007 with just 8GB of storage and a tiny two megapixel camera to today\u2019s 128GB models with 3D Touch and a 12 megapixel camera.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the infographic, backing up your iPhone isn&#8217;t that difficult and combined with what you&#8217;ve learned by reading the <a href=\"\/blog\/how-to-backup-iphone-and-ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Definitive Guide to iPhone Backup,&#8221;<\/a> you&#8217;ll be ready to protect all your iPhone data. So if you are one of the millions of iPhone users whose life would be turned upside if you were to lose your phone, please make sure to regularly back up your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems hard to believe but the iPhone is still less than 10 years old. Before the launch of the iPhone on June 29, 2007, a \u201csmartphone\u201d was basically just a glorified email reader attached to a rudimentary cell phone. Times certainly have changed. Today with up to 128GB of storage, the iPhone has become&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/quick-look-backup-iphone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Quick Look at How to Backup Your iPhone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":59051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121,5],"tags":[469],"class_list":["post-57881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backing-up","category-mac-love","tag-consumerbackup","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Backup Your iPhone: The Evolution of the iPhone and iCloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Infographic: a look at the evolution of the iPhone and iCloud and how to backup all of your iPhone&#039;s data.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/quick-look-backup-iphone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Backup Your iPhone: The Evolution of the iPhone and iCloud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Infographic: a look at the evolution of the iPhone and iCloud and how to backup all of your iPhone&#039;s data.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/quick-look-backup-iphone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage &amp; 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