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iCloud can securely store your photos, videos, documents, music, apps, and more and keep them up to date on all your devices. After iCloud automatically backs up your device, you can easily complete settings on a new device or recover data on an existing device. However, every iPhone user enjoys 5GB of storage space for free. Have you ever encountered an iCloud backup failure? This tutorial will show you how to fix iPhone that won't back up to iCloud.
It is easy to enable iCloud backup. You can try this out by doing this:
Step 1: Access “Settings” from iPhone desktop.
Step 2: On the Settings section, tap “Apple ID” at the top.
Step 3: Tap “iCloud”, and then scroll down to “iCloud Backup”
Step 4: Enable “iCloud Backup”, and then tap “Back Up Now”.
By doing so, your iCloud will automatically back up data when your iPhone is connected to power, locked, and on WLAN.
It is usually a network connections problem when iPhone cannot back up to iCloud. Only in the condition that there are strong and stable network connection in your iPhone, can all your iPhone data back up to iCloud. So how to fix iCloud backup failed by reconnecting to a stable network? Here're the simple steps below.
Step 1: Go to “Settings” on your iPhone.
Step 2: On the Settings page, click Cellular to check whether the network data enable. If you are already connected to Wi-Fi, switch the Wi-Fi back off and on again.
If you can't back up to iCloud, it is more likely that there is low storage in iCloud. Make sure you have enough storage space in iCloud to complete backup.
You can check how much iCloud storage you have available and check your next backup size on your iPhone, just go to Settings>> [Your name]>>iCloud>>Manage Storage>>Backups.
Under the Backups section, click on your iPhone, then you will see the Next Backup Size under the Last Backup and Backup Size.
If the storage is lacking in low storage, you can either buy more iCloud storage space or free it up to improve performance by deleting something. However, many people don't want to pay a monthly fee to upgrade their iCloud+ plan, so how can they back up iPhone data? You can check more in Part 2.
Reset all settings will erase all your data on your iPhone. By resetting all settings, you can fix what caused iPhone to not sync with iCloud.
Step 1: Go to “Settings”, tap “General”.
Step 2: Scroll down to “Reset” and tap it.
Step 3: Click on “Reset All Settings” and confirm it when prompted this will reset all settings.
As iPhone becomes more and more popular, back-up data is increasingly important due to all kinds of factors. At some point, a great number of iPhone users back up their iPhone to iCloud. After a certain time, however, iPhone must prompt that there's not enough iCloud storage. You can use iSunshare iSyncGenius to back up your data to a computer, which reduces the amount of memory your iPhone takes up.
iSunshare iSyncGenius, the software that backs up and restores data from iPhone, makes it easier to sync data from iPhone to a computer. If your iPhone still won't back up to iCloud not having enough storage, this step-by-step guide will show you how to back up from iPhone to computer without iCloud.
Step 1: Download and install this software on your computer, then launch it and connect it to your computer.
Step 2: In the “Back Up” section, you can see your device information. If it's confirmed, click “Next”.
Step 3: Select what you want to back up from iPhone to the computer.
In “All Backups”, there are applications, photos, address book, message, call records, memorandum, bookmark, desktop, system settings there. You can choose a path from your computer and then click “Start” to back up all files from your iPhone to your computer.
In “Classified backup”, seven files are provided there, namely backup name, picture, music, ringtones, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, and recordings. select what you want to sync from your iPhone and then click “Start”, the data will be back up to your computer.
Step 4: In this step, iSunshare iSyncGenius is backing up data from the iPhone to the computer. It will take a few minutes, please be patient.
Step 5: Lastly, when prompted that backup succeeded, click “Finished” to complete.
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