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What settings do you have ON in iCloud??

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Burton8219

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Hey,

Don't know if this thread has been made before (sorry if it has), but I'm wondering what you guys have backing up/syncing with iCloud? At first I had it backing up my contacts/calendar, but now I'm just sticking with GMail Exchange syncing for my contacts and calendars. Feel it does a better job and doesn't kill my battery as much as iCloud syncing did. Now I just have Find My iPhone and Backup so I can have an up to the day backup in addition to the weekly hard copy I have backing up to iTunes. So what're you guys backing up to the cloud in Cupertino?
 
"Weekly backup with iTunes"? You can't backup to both iTunes and iCloud. If you backup to iCloud, iTunes will only sync. If you backup with iTunes, the iCloud backup gets deleted.
 
Burton8219 said:
Hey,

Don't know if this thread has been made before (sorry if it has), but I'm wondering what you guys have backing up/syncing with iCloud? At first I had it backing up my contacts/calendar, but now I'm just sticking with GMail Exchange syncing for my contacts and calendars. Feel it does a better job and doesn't kill my battery as much as iCloud syncing did. Now I just have Find My iPhone and Backup so I can have an up to the day backup in addition to the weekly hard copy I have backing up to iTunes. So what're you guys backing up to the cloud in Cupertino?
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No reminders? no bookmarks? no notes? photo stream? Docs?
 
Intell said:
"Weekly backup with iTunes"? You can't backup to both iTunes and iCloud. If you backup to iCloud, iTunes will only sync. If you backup with iTunes, the iCloud backup gets deleted.
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You can still backup manually with iTunes. I do it once a month or so, too.
 
Intell said:
If you backup with iTunes, the iCloud backup gets deleted.
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Are you 100% positive? I'm surprised they wouldn't let you have multiple backups, as they've always allowed you to backup to multiple computers. And since backing up is a local operation, I'm surprised simply doing a backup to iTunes would contact Apple's server to delete the old backup.
 
dave420 said:
Are you 100% positive? I'm surprised they wouldn't let you have multiple backups, as they've always allowed you to backup to multiple computers. And since backing up is a local operation, I'm surprised simply doing a backup to iTunes would contact Apple's server to delete the old backup.
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It doesn't. I use both, just in case and it works fine. The iTunes backups just aren't automatic anymore, you have to do them manually.
 
Find My iPhone, Mail, and Contacts. Not much else is use to me since I'm stuck on Snow Leopard and since I use Chrome on my Mac.
 
Everything. I'm starting to wonder if I own the only I-phone 4s with no battery issues. Granted this is my first smart phone ever but I talk an hour, game 30 min, send tons of texts, stream Pandora some, and check FB maybe a dozen or more times and it lasts all day. Hmmm....
 
AndyinAtl said:
Everything. I'm starting to wonder if I own the only I-phone 4s with no battery issues. Granted this is my first smart phone ever but I talk an hour, game 30 min, send tons of texts, stream Pandora some, and check FB maybe a dozen or more times and it lasts all day. Hmmm....
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My battery is better than it was on my i4.

And I have two iCloud accounts.
 
Intell said:
"Weekly backup with iTunes"? You can't backup to both iTunes and iCloud. If you backup to iCloud, iTunes will only sync. If you backup with iTunes, the iCloud backup gets deleted.
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Nope... Wrong. I've been doing it this way for quite some time and I have backups visible on my iCloud account and on my hard drive on my computer.
Menel said:
No reminders? no bookmarks? no notes? photo stream? Docs?
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I find no need for any of the above accept maybe Photo Stream... I use Chrome as my main browser and don't really bookmark many pages as it is. Docs might come in handy, but I use Dropbox for most of those types of things.
verwon said:
It doesn't. I use both, just in case and it works fine. The iTunes backups just aren't automatic anymore, you have to do them manually.
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Thank you.
AndyinAtl said:
Everything. I'm starting to wonder if I own the only I-phone 4s with no battery issues. Granted this is my first smart phone ever but I talk an hour, game 30 min, send tons of texts, stream Pandora some, and check FB maybe a dozen or more times and it lasts all day. Hmmm....
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Maybe I have a defective phone, but next time you put your phone on the charger take note of your usage and standby. My standby is incredible... it's when in use that the drain is most prevalent. I would be happy if I consistently got 5.5-6 hrs (I get like 4-4.5) and have no idea how people are getting 7-8+ hrs of usage other than using nothing but the music. But if it's working for you through a full day then that's all the battery you can really ask for, right?
 
I leave iCloud off for everything except Find My iPhone. On one device out of three I also have it set to backup. I wish Apple gave more than 5 GB free space, especially with the larger devices, or I would backup the other devices as well. 5 GB doesn't do much good when I have one 64 GB device and two 16 GB devices.
 
Burton8219 said:
Nope... Wrong. I've been doing it this way for quite some time and I have backups visible on my iCloud account and on my hard drive on my computer.

I find no need for any of the above accept maybe Photo Stream... I use Chrome as my main browser and don't really bookmark many pages as it is. Docs might come in handy, but I use Dropbox for most of those types of things.

Thank you.

Maybe I have a defective phone, but next time you put your phone on the charger take note of your usage and standby. My standby is incredible... it's when in use that the drain is most prevalent. I would be happy if I consistently got 5.5-6 hrs (I get like 4-4.5) and have no idea how people are getting 7-8+ hrs of usage other than using nothing but the music. But if it's working for you through a full day then that's all the battery you can really ask for, right?
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You're welcome!

And on the topic at hand, I use iCloud for everything except Photo Stream.
 
verwon said:
You're welcome!

And on the topic at hand, I use iCloud for everything except Photo Stream.
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I'm sure I would at least have it all on if it wasn't such a battery drain... I don't really use it, but I would at least have it on just so I have another place where my contacts are. Can't really afford to lose those haha
 
Burton8219 said:
I'm sure I would at least have it all on if it wasn't such a battery drain... I don't really use it, but I would at least have it on just so I have another place where my contacts are. Can't really afford to lose those haha
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I bought an extended battery case, so I don't have to worry about it.

I can't risk being out somewhere and having my phone die on me.
 
I use everything except Mail and Notes. That stuff syncs between my phone and MBP via Gmail server.

It doesn't seem to be killing my battery.
 
Shrink said:
I use everything except Mail and Notes. That stuff syncs between my phone and MBP via Gmail server.

It doesn't seem to be killing my battery.
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It killed mine apparently... I've seen a huge increase in battery life since turning off everything but Find My iPhone and Backup. I assume it's because I had a GMail account syncing with Exchange as well so it was polling twice as much as just having the Exchange account, which doesn't bode well for battery life.
 
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