Backing up my iPhone
How can I back up my iPhone ?how to back up my iPhone iCloud
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14
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Please review this Apple guidance for backup options→How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
In addition to backing up, you can also sync data to iCloud and other devices that you own. iCloud+ has 2 independent functions. iCloud backups, and iCloud sync. It’s confusing because they both have the same name prefix. But they have no connection with each other. Go to Settings/[your name]/iCloud. You will see a bunch of switches (with iOS 16 also tap Show All). When you turn on a switch that data type will sync to iCloud. If you do this on multiple devices that share an Apple ID the selected data will sync to all of those devices.
You can also turn on iCloud Backups. This will back up your phone every night if the phone is plugged in, connected to Wi-Fi and locked.
But note that anything that you sync by the first method will be excluded from the iCloud backups.