Unlimited iPhone backup in iOS 15
I’m straying from my usual attempts to be relatively timeless in my writing. I realize this post will be meaningless in a year or so, but I want to share this cool trick in iOS 15 I just learned. You can perform a full cloud backup of your phone, regardless of whether you have enough available space to do it in iCloud.
In iOS 15 there is a feature to help people prepare for transferring over to a new iPhone, even those who don’t have a big iCloud storage plan. Don’t worry, you don’t need to actually have or buy a new iPhone to use it, and the backup lasts 30 days. To get there, go into Settings, click General, then click Reset or Transfer iPhone. Then click Get Started.
If it turns out you have enough iCloud space and your iPhone is fully backed up already, the process will be over quickly as it isn’t needed at the time. If you don’t, your iPhone will backup to iCloud…don’t do this during a call or other important use as it will occupy your phone for several minutes. When done, it will leave instructions for how to transfer to your new iPhone (which, as I’ve said, isn’t necessary because the backup is done at this point). Exit out of Settings.
The backup lasts 30 days, so in theory as long as you do this every 30 days (which you probably should do anyway) you will have a free cloud backup of your iPhone. Here endeth the lesson on unlimited iPhone backup in iOS 15.
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