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I have a PC with the latest version of Itunes and an Iphone 4 with ios5, What are the pros and cons of backing up to Icloud versus to the PC? If you back up on the cloud how can you see that it is indeed there?

Posted on Oct 28, 2011 7:05 PM

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Oct 28, 2011 8:37 PM in response to jimf2338

You can check under Settings and see when the last backup was. The biggest benefits are that you can restore your phone from backup without having to connect it to a computer at all in the event something happens to it or it is replaced, and if you're not the kind of person to plug into your computer every day, it will back up automagically once a day when connected to power and WiFi.


If it borks out on you at work or on vacation because it got hit by stray cosmic rays, you can re-activate and restore it without having to wait till you get home.

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