Why is iCloud limited to one backup per device?

In March 2024, there was a horrible storm and due to a glitch my phone lost a lot of files, including some Apple books that I had imported using me being a dummy I thought maybe my previous iCloud backup would have the file files. It did not so since I did a factory, reset those files are not able to be recovered ever if I had been able to access all of my iCloud backups from the time I became an Apple customer and started using iCloud in 2019 I could have seen that some of the backups made in February would’ve had those files so it’s so sad that because we can’t see any of our iCloud backups without making a factory reset it makes it difficult even with backing up all our data for when a freak accident like this happens


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Posted on May 14, 2025 05:04 PM

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May 14, 2025 05:05 PM in response to dragongirl2

Again, sorry to reply to my own post, but I wanted to clarify that those were epub files that I thought iCloud Drive would just be like Google Drive and keep them permanently as a back up in case something happened to my phone why was I surprised to find out that was not the case and a lot of those websites where I got those have since been taken down permanently and so there is no way to just download another copy so sad

May 14, 2025 05:07 PM in response to dragongirl2

If I had maybe been able to recover the files from multiple backups at a time, I probably could’ve recovered everything. It would be nice if we could just see all the backups we ever made on our computers and then download the files and recover them and back them up Because I try to be a back up every day person but sometimes things slip through the cracks and it’s very depressing when you lose important stuff even if it’s not important to everyone else

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