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iCloud Standard Guide

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iCloud Standard Guide

Overview of this book

iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc. iCloud is a hub in a multi-devices environment, that allows your iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches, and Macs sync with each other and always have the same content. The service allows users to store data, such as music files, on remote computer servers that can be downloaded to multiple devices such as iOS-based devices, and personal computers running OS X or Microsoft Windows. This practical guide provides easy, step-by-step guidance to using the numerous features offered by iCloud, for first time users You will be guided through everything that you need to know about using iCloud on multiple platforms, as well as how to use it on a Windows PC. Learn about what iCloud can offer you with this practical guide, and what makes it better than other cloud services. It will take you through all of the iCloud services available, and help you to manage your contents easily across devices. You will also learn how to use Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and other iCloud services on Mac, PC, iOS devices or in the web browser. This book will also let you explore more on using iPhone and iTunes with iCloud, sync all contents without any hassle, and even back them up with iCloud. If you want to take full advantage of iCloud, then this is the right book for you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
iCloud Standard Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Working with Mail, Contacts, and Calendar
4
Collaborate with iMessage, Notes, and Reminders
Index

Understanding iCloud Backup


Before iCloud, users needed to plug in their iOS devices to the computer just for backing up devices via USB cable. iTunes helps you to back up data on your device, for example, contacts, purchased content, photos and videos in Camera Roll, and all your personal configurations. iTunes also helps you restore the previous backup to the device.

Now, PC-free (introduced in iOS 5) and iCloud features eliminate the need to use a USB cable in order to backup and restore. Since PC-free eliminates the need to use a cable to back up and restore your devices to the computer, for which you can just use a Wi-Fi connection, iCloud lets you do backup and restoration to the cloud using any connection available, anytime and anywhere. With the free 5 GB storage on iCloud, you can use it to store your iOS device's backup contents. Even now you can back up your device to iCloud, it's still possible to perform a local backup process with iTunes.

Before going through on how to back up...