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I don't want to pay for the cloud space, because I have already a NAS at home, I just want to be able to move from iCloud to a local storage using Time Machine.
This is something already available on Mac, could you make this possible for iPhones also?
iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 18
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How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
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~Katana-San~
Anyone can back up their iPhone on their computer or multiple people can back up to one computer. Sharing photos has nothing to do with backing up. Photos can be shared by email, airdrop, iCloud links,etc. Yes, you can restore directly from your computer if you make a backup to your computer.
You can either back up your phone to iCloud or to your computer when you connect your phone to it for synching.
If you backup your iPhone to a Mac and you do full Time Machine backups to your NAS then your iPhone backups are also backed up. I assume the same applies to non-Mac PCs which get backed up, but it's outside my experience so I couldn't be sure.
The main practical difference from a backup perspective is that if you back up to iCloud then, in theory, you can recover your iPhone backup from anywhere that you can access iCloud - e.g. if you were on holiday, lost your phone and replaced it. If you back up to your Mac/PC then you need your Mac/PC to recover data and settings to a new phone.
If you use other Apple iCloud features then you have no choice than to use iCloud because, at the moment, iOS does not integrate with other cloud providers for many of them.
There are apps (e.g. iMazing) for Mac and PC that allow you to download data from your phone to a NAS but I've never used them so can't recommend. You'd need to be sure that they are performing a recoverable backup (i.e. something a new phone could use) which includes settings, mail account settings, app settings, etc. and not just copying the data on your phone - most of which (e.g. Music, Podcasts, Images) are available for backup elsewhere anyway.
Thanks but it’s not the same, because I will not be able to use the same feature as iCloud, is something that Apple have to work on.
You can either back up to iCloud or to your computer. If you want the features of iCloud, you'll need to use iCloud to back up your device.
Apple cannot force us to pay for iCloud, they have to update it to allow time machine with iOS
Hello~ I am a bit confused…how is Apple “forcing” you to do anything?
~Katana-San~
Then you’ll need to backup to your computer instead of iCloud.
Ok I need to try to backup on my laptop, is this working also for the family? To share the photo of with another family member? Can I restore my phone directly from my Mac ?
Backup iPhone using Time machine, instead of iCloud
