I had my last phone stolen. I now have cloud plus as never paid to back up. Anyway what if someone steals phone deletes back up? Is it better to have two iPhones? Back up phones on an iPad? What does everybody else do? I heard you can password protect back ups?
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Your phone should have a passcode to stop them from getting in. You can also turn on Stolen Device Protection. If your phone gets lost or stolen again, you should go to iCloud.com to put it in lost mode and/or do a remote wipe.
No.
Not possible.
Most people do iCloud backups or back up to a computer using iTunes/Finder/Apple Devices. Some turn on Stolen Device Protection.
This is only if you back up to a computer.
Maybe I could air drop iPhone to iPad but sometimes that’s slow. And if both were stolen and back up was deleted I would lose everything.
My scheme…
1. All email accounts are IMAP. They can be accessed anywhere on any system.
2. Contacts and Notes are Google. Could also be Yahoo, or any other other service. Cross platform.
3. Photos are backed up by Dropbox. Instantly available to all Macs/PCs running Dropbox. Since these are then 'local' to each computer they get backed up daily in that computer's normal backup and weekly to Dropbox.
4. Messages. Any important photos in Messages are backed up to Dropbox by saving to the Camera Roll. Aside from that, nothing important is ever discussed via iMessage or SMS. It's all face to face, in person. This is the least bit of data I'm concerned about.
5. Voicemail is the same way as Messages. I have never had any VM that was so important I needed to actually save it off my device though.
6. Apps. Here, I don't care. For important apps, I have all my login credentials. That data is saved on the provider's systems. Just redownload the apps and log back in. Everything else isn't important to me.
I do have a 2TB iCloud sub, but it's for convenience not backup/storage.
1. All email accounts are IMAP. They can be accessed anywhere on any system.
2. Contacts and Notes are Google. Could also be Yahoo, or any other other service. Cross platform.
3. Photos are backed up by Dropbox. Instantly available to all Macs/PCs running Dropbox. Since these are then 'local' to each computer they get backed up daily in that computer's normal backup and weekly to Dropbox.
4. Messages. Any important photos in Messages are backed up to Dropbox by saving to the Camera Roll. Aside from that, nothing important is ever discussed via iMessage or SMS. It's all face to face, in person. This is the least bit of data I'm concerned about.
5. Voicemail is the same way as Messages. I have never had any VM that was so important I needed to actually save it off my device though.
6. Apps. Here, I don't care. For important apps, I have all my login credentials. That data is saved on the provider's systems. Just redownload the apps and log back in. Everything else isn't important to me.
I do have a 2TB iCloud sub, but it's for convenience not backup/storage.
If someone steals your phone they’ll have a locked device if you have find my iPhone activation lock on like everyone else. Even if that device should get deleted and somehow associated with a different Apple account how would that affect your iCloud? Exactly.