28.11.2013 11:35 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Set up iCloud and back-up your iPhone

Apple’s iCloud acts as a storage, data-sync and back-up service for your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Through iCloud, iOS devices were finally freed from being accessories to Macs and PCs, because the likes of calendar events and contact data would be synchronised on-the-fly, rather than updated when you plugged your device in and synced. But iCloud goes further than ensuring your appointments and phone numbers are up to date. Increasingly, other services rely on iCloud, including browser bookmarks, photo-sharing, app document sharing, and the means to find your device should you lose it. Additionally — and perhaps most importantly — iCloud enables you to keep your data safe, by backing it up to the cloud. This means that should your iPhone start going Vworp Vworp and mysteriously propel itself through time and space, like a mini-TARDIS (or, more mundanely, find itself smashed to bits in a puddle of muddy water when you drop it),

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