IOS BACKUPS
If you lose or replace your iPhone, iPod touch, or
iPad, how do you put everything back on the new one
that you had on the old one? It turns out all you have
to do is keep iCloud Backup turned on. Well, that and
make sure you have enough space for all your
backups in your iCloud storage plan. We discuss
storage plans in further detail on page 22, and you
can find out more about backup options on page 29.
FAMILY SHARING
Picture one of those schmaltzy circle–of–life TV
adverts. A young Apple user logs in with their Apple
ID to access all their stuff on all their devices. It’s so
simple! The sun shines! Then they meet another
Apple user (nobody wants a green bubble spouse,
ugh) and soon there’s a patter of tiny feet. But now
(clouds gather) how do they all share their digital
stuff? Gen up on Family Sharing on page 23.
ITUNES
iTunes and iCloud. iCloud and iTunes. Which is which?
What do they do? Why is iTunes the name of an app
as well as an online store that sells films and TV
shows as well as tunes? Wait, what about apps and
the App Store, that’s another thing again? It’s all got
so confusing. OK, let’s just slow down... We’ll try to
clear up as much of this as possible as we go along.
Find explanations as to what’s what on page 22.
PRIVACY
The next most important thing to having easy access
to all your data is nobody else having easy access to
all your data. Actually, that’s the other way round.
Fortunately, Apple is more interested in using privacy
protection as a feature to sell you products and
services than using your entire existence as a feature
to sell to data brokers. Discover how Apple makes
data security easy on page 26.WHAT ICLOUD ISN’T
BACKUP FOR
YOUR MAC
iCloud can back up
all your iOS devices,
no problem, but for
macOS you’ll need to
use Time Machine
combined with
a hard disk or SSD.
>> A MASTER
PHOTO LIBRARY
If you delete a photo
from a device, it’s
deleted from iCloud.
Oops. Make sure to
copy photos to
a drive on your Mac
to keep them safe.>> UNLIMITED
You get 5GB of
storage free,
but that’s unlikely
to be enough.
Expanding this costs
extra: see “How
much space?” on
page 22.>> iTUNES
We know it’s a little
bit tricky, but try not
to confuse the two:
the iTunes app in
macOS is used to
back up your devices
to your Mac, not to
the cloud.>> DROPBOX
More sharing
features are on their
way, but for now
iCloud is just focused
on you, rather than
multi–user
collaboration. Sorry
about that.maclife.com SEP 2019 19iCloud superguide