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hansokl

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Good morning all!

In the past, I've always done local PC backups of iPhone but upgraded my iCloud to 2TB since my wife and I both have 512GB iPhones.

What I'm trying to figure out is how to backup my wife's iPhone on my iCloud which I enabled family sharing. From her phone, only see an option to backup in iCloud but assuming that is just her personal iCloud which only has the 5GB. Probably a silly question but would love any help anyone can provide with this.

End goal is to setup our new phones from iCloud backup tomorrow.

Thanks,
 
I have family 2TB iCloud with my wife and my mother in law. It treats it as their own iCloud on their devices. But you'll see them using your space in your managed iCloud storage options. (You can't access their data, and they can't access yours).

Yep, just backup to iCloud like normal. If I remember right, she has the option to accept the family 2TB iCloud or do her own.
 
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I have family 2TB iCloud with my wife and my mother in law. It treats it as their own iCloud on their devices. But you'll see them using your space in your managed iCloud storage options. (You can't access their data, and they can't access yours).

Yep, just backup to iCloud like normal. If I remember right, she has the option to accept the family 2TB iCloud or do her own.
Awesome! Thank you for the help! Going to get her to start a backup now which probably will take a while for 512gb
 
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Awesome! Thank you for the help! Going to get her to start a backup now which probably will take a while for 512gb
Especially for photos - it can take a LONG time. Just let it run its course - it'll get to everything eventually.

I have 110GB of photos and uploading that took about a week even though I had access to 500mbps up. Sometimes it would sit there and show no movement but in the background it was updating.
 
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Awesome! Thank you for the help! Going to get her to start a backup now which probably will take a while for 512gb

Best success, this should be the way to go. It will only backup things that Apple doesn’t have already like the app itself in the App Store- so it depends on how much data is personal data to copy to iCloud.
 
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Best success, this should be the way to go. It will only backup things that Apple doesn’t have already like the app itself in the App Store- so it depends on how much data is personal data to copy to iCloud.
I've never set up a new phone with restoring from iCloud backup. I'm assuming it brings everything over apps, messages, photos, mail, etc which I have all selected. I currently have 1,847 videos, 15,774 photos, 238 applications, and around 2,000 songs. Have 225.41GB of free space on my phone. I have ATT 1GB fiber for internet but I'm sure setting up my new phone from icloud backup will take many hours either way.
 
I've never set up a new phone with restoring from iCloud backup. I'm assuming it brings everything over apps, messages, photos, mail, etc which I have all selected. I currently have 1,847 videos, 15,774 photos, 238 applications, and around 2,000 songs. Have 225.41GB of free space on my phone. I have ATT 1GB fiber for internet but I'm sure setting up my new phone from icloud backup will take many hours either way.

Yes, it will bring it all back. Unfortunately restoring on new phone day tends to be especially slow because the whole world is also trying to set up their new phones and apple’s servers get hit pretty hard. Luckily the phone is usable during the restore (except for the very first part) you may just not have all your apps and photos and such available yet.
 
Yes, it will bring it all back. Unfortunately restoring on new phone day tends to be especially slow because the whole world is also trying to set up their new phones and apple’s servers get hit pretty hard. Luckily the phone is usable during the restore (except for the very first part) you may just not have all your apps and photos and such available yet.
Thanks!
 
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