Hello,

I am trying to help my girlfriend backup her iPhone and Macbook.

I am a bit unfamiliar with the Apple ecosystem, and she’s still not very familiar with the technical aspects of it.

With my android and PC, it seems a bit more straightforward. Certain programs or services will backup everything, and I can restore it all exactly as it was at that time.

But the Apple webpage for iCloud Backup lists a bunch of things it backs up, meaning, it doesn’t backup everything?

I’m trying to figure out the best way to make backups of her phone and laptop so she can restore them exactly as they were when each backup was made.

Do iPhones and Macs have this type of option? Backing up everything, like taking an image of them at that point, including all apps, all files, all settings, every little thing, and then using that to restore them at a later date if needed?

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Any direction or guidance you might be able to provide is greatly appreciated.

I’ll update with any solutions or options for your opinions if I’m able to find any.

  • bobsuruncleEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is it. Just be aware the music on the phone doesn’t get backed up to iCloud or with a local backup on the Mac. Also backing up your iPhone to your Mac will eat up quite a bit of storage so I would stick with the iCloud backup for the phone. For the Mac, don’t rely on iCloud as it doesn’t back up anything outside of iCloud data, and your files in the documents and desktop folders. You would have to reinstall all the programs, printers, setting and all those little tweaks you have made to personalize your system. Time machine is the way to go. The added bonus is depending on the size of the external drive, you could recover a file you deleted 6 months ago by mistake.