To iPhone users, they cannot be more familiar with iCloud, for iCloud securely stores any of your photo, video, document, music, app, and more. What is more, it also keeps all these data updated across all your iPhones, iPad and Mac. Wherever you want it, you can always have access to what you want. Sounds awesome, right? However, not all the people know how to manage iCloud backups and enable iCloud backup. This article will show you the right method to enable iCloud backup and different ways on how to manage iCloud backups.

How to enable iCloud backup on iPhone

Follow the steps below to enable iCloud backup.

1. Make sure that your iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network.

2. Go to Settings>iCloud>iCloud Backup to turn on iCloud Backup.

Note:

Your iPhone would be backed up to iCloud automatically when it's connected to a Wi-fi network, charging and locked. To make sure that the backup is finished: Go to Settings>iCloud>iCloud Storage>Manage Storage. As usual, the backup is supposed to appear the time and backup size in detail.

How to manage iCloud backups

How to manage iCloud backup on Mac OS?

To manage iCloud backup on Mac OS, you can do the steps mentioned below.

1. To have access to iCloud settings on Mac OS, click on the Apple menu in the top left corner and choose System Preferences. And choose iCloud, this will load up your iCloud preferences.

2. Tap the anage button in the lower right corner, which will load up all your iCloud content. Select the Backups tab at the top of the list, which will bring up all the iCloud backups from all your devices. Then you can manage iCloud backup on Mac OS.

3. To save documents to iCloud, please open the document on Mac that you'd like to move to iCloud. Click on the On My Mac tab in the upper left hand corner to navigate to the document.

4. When you have the document open, hover over the title of the document at the top until you see a little drop down symbol appear next to it. Click on the drop down arrow to the right of the title and choose the option Move to iCloud to save documents to iCloud on Mac OS.

Note:

You may already be signed in to your iCloud account. If not, sign in here with your Apple ID/iTunes account.

How to manage iCloud backup on Windows using iCloud for Windows?

As we all know, Windows doesn't come with iCloud built in, so you are supposed to download the iCloud from website.

  • 1. Download and install the iCloud software from Apple website.
  • 2. Launch the iCloud software and log in with your Apple ID account.
  • 3. Check the box next to each iCloud feature you want to enable.
  • 4.Click iCloud Drive at the left side. A link to your iCloud Drive folder has also been placed in File Explorer's Quick Access List. Here you can find the files or documents you've saved. You can also drag the documents from PC to iCloud Drive to save documents.

How to manage iCloud backup on iPhone?

You can also manage iCloud backup on iPhone, which convenient and at the same time risky because all the changes on iPhone would change your backup in iCloud. So if you accidentally deleted something important on iPhone, you might also have deleted it in iCloud.

1.Tap your screen, turned on in Settings > iCloud.

2. Move the slider to On/green for each feature that you want to enable. At the bottom of the screen, you can tap the Storage & Backup menu. If you want to back up the data on your iPhone to iCloud, move the iCloud Backup slider to On/green.

3. To delete iPhone backup, you can click Settings > iCloud > Manage Storage > iPhone > Delete Backup.

Note:

  • 1. Depending on the choices you made during your device set-up, iCloud may already be turned on and you may already be signed in. If you're not signed in, tap the Account field and sign in with your Apple ID/iTunes account.
  • 2. When setting up iCloud, you only get 5GB of storage to have your photos, music, documents, contacts and videos stored in iCloud. If we run out of free space, you have two choice, to buy more iCloud storage or delete content.

As I mentioned before, if you've signed into iCloud and turned on iCloud Backup, all the changes on your iPhone would be reflected on the iCloud backup. So to make sure that you can retrieve your data once you accidentally delete it, you should probably get the data currently on your iPhone backed up. I would recommend to you Leawo iOS Data Recovery, it's a powerful program to recover your lost data as well as back up your iPhone.

   

Here's how to back up iPhone using Leawo iOS Data Recovery

1. Open Leawo iOS Data Recovery, click on the tab on the left which is Recover from iOS Device.

2. Select your device on the device list and then click Start and the program would scan your device.

3. After the scanning process completes, select the files you want to back up and click Recover button.

4. On the following popup, select a folder to store the files you want to back up and click Go to start saving the files to the chosen folder.

The methods I have shown in this article will help you enable iCloud backup and enable iCloud backup well. Thanks to iCloud, for it enables on your devices. Each time you're connected to the internet, it will make changes to iCloud-enabled apps. All of these changes will automatically be uploaded to your iCloud account and then shared to all your compatible devices. Come and have a try the methods and take good advantage of iCloud backup.