Hi I'm wondering what will happen if I log out of my iCloud. Essentially I'm doing this to sign into my old iCloud account. I don,t have anything backed up, but I am backing up my photos currently. I'd just like to know the steps to ensure that all my photos/messages stay the same if I sign back on?
iPhone 5c, iOS 9.2.1
I resently had the same problem, but there is a solution. You can sign out of your apple account and log back in with all the apps right there.
I resently had the same problem, but there is a solution. You can sign out of your apple account and log back in with all the apps right there.
Winston Churchill wrote:
Backing up would probably be pointless, after a restore iCloud data is replaced by the most up to date data from the cloud anyway.
I agree it is probably pointless, but it is not my data to risk losing.
We don't know for certain that the device is fully synced to iCloud, it probably is but we don't know that for a fact.
We don't know if the OP has spent all day shooting video, taking photos & is still uploading them to the cloud, probably not?
sophia434, are you ok if your data probably returns or do you want to be sure?
Backups are the only way I know to protect your data on iOS, probably pointless until you need one & don't have it.
You will get the opportunity to save some but not all data to your device when you turn off syncing before signing out. However it will only be removed from the device, not the account, so if you log back in again it will all be put back.
The exception would be photo stream if you use it. It only keeps photos from the last 30 days in the cloud, so if you turn it off and back on again, you may not get back as many photos back as there were before. If you use iCloud photo library you will be fine though.
Personally I would backup before making any changes, otherwise content could be lost. Connect to iTunes to do that (or use iCloud backup if you can't do that). iCloud overwrites it's backups, so you only have so long to recover. iTunes can 'archive' a backup, saving that point in time.
Have you considered logging in to the account on the web instead? It will show some of your data in iCloud.com or you can view AppleID info at…
iCloud.com only works correctly on computers.
Backing up would probably be pointless, after a restore iCloud data is replaced by the most up to date data from the cloud anyway.
It can't do any harm I agree but I think you might be misunderstanding my reason for raising it, I wasn't mentioning it just to be disagreeable but that I'd be a little concerned that suggesting a back up might imply some sort of surety that just isn't there.
Take the examples you raise...
We don't know for certain that the device is fully synced to iCloud, it probably is but we don't know that for a fact.
Taking contacts by way of example. If you add a contact (that doesn't have chance to get synced to the cloud, before you sign out) and you do a back up, then sign back in to the cloud and subsequently end up losing that contact, restoring from the back up won't help because after the restore is complete it will sync with the cloud again and remove the contact all over again. The same goes for reminders, calendars etc
We don't know if the OP has spent all day shooting video, taking photos & is still uploading them to the cloud, probably not?
If they were going to upload to iCloud, then iCloud photo library would need to enabled. If iCloud photo library is enabled then your photos and video aren't included in the back.
Hopefully you can see my reasoning here.
I downloaded itunes and backed everything up from there.
This is very nuanced isn't it Winston, makes it tricky to know what will happen in any situation. I just get concerned when I see "I don't have anything backed up"
I'm glad you got it into iTunes sophia434. It is safer than iCloud in my opinion, hopefully you never need it.
Good luck with it.
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Drew Reece wrote:
I'm glad you got it into iTunes sophia434. It is safer than iCloud in my opinion, hopefully you never need it.
Good luck with it.
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I'm still not sure you are understanding me, backing up offers no protection for the data that is removed from the phone when you sign out of iCloud.
Winston Churchill wrote:
I'm still not sure you are understanding me, backing up offers no protection for the data that is removed from the phone when you sign out of iCloud.
I was thinking it would backup items that hadn't made it up to the cloud yet, is that wrong?
Yes, see my examples above.
Will everything be deleted if I sign out of my iCloud?
