First, no, you do not “have to” use iCloud. If you have a PC or Mac you can store backups on that machine.
Second, the advantages of using iCloud is threefold in my opinion: 1) Your’er not using memory on your pC or Mac (probably negligible, but thought I should mention it). 2) If you have more than one Apple platform (Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod) it conveniently allows for document and data sharing across all platforms. I did not fully appreciate this benefit until I upgraded from a Windows PC to a Mac Mini and then ultimately got an iPad (to accompany my iPhone). It’s extremely to share features, events and data across these three Apple products and I personally love it. 3) If you should need to recover your iPhone and you aren’t nowhere near your PC or Mac the recovery/backup can be done simply by having Internet access. Then, of course, executing an iCloud backup. Now, frankly I could have written a small dissertation on how to do these things but I trust this basic answer will suffice for now. HTH **************** - Bill & Leader Dog Holland - "The problem with people who have no vices is that you can be pretty sure they are going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor, 20th Century Screen Actress, (1932-2011)-- -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
