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TimWellens

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 1, 2020
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Hi there!

I have an iPad Air,iphone13 pro and an iMac.
When (on iphone) I go to settings,iCloud,manage storage and backups,I can only see the backups of my iPad and iPhone but my iMac doesn’t show there.
Sorry for the noob question.Maybe it’s because I use time machine to back up the iMac to an external 8TB drive?
Strange is I have a storage plan of 200gb,of which 150gb is in use.From this 150gb documents takes a whopping 100gb of storage! So I guess the iMac does backup to iCloud too so why isn’t it showing up in the manage storage/backups?

Confused and sorry for the chaotic English,it’s not my native language.

Love this forum!
 
Your iMac may be storing some files to iCloud but it’s not backing up to iCloud. You’re backing it up to an external drive using Time Machine. iOS has no knowledge of that.
 
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