The one advantage encrypted backups have is that you can return to a previous version of an app it necessary. Say for example, accessibility is broken in a later update or if the app should disappear from the app store, with an encrypted backup you still have the older version. With iCloud you always get the latest version of your apps.
Sent from Kimber's iPhone The happy ending still beckons, and it is in the hope of grasping it that we go on.—Annie Proulx > On Sep 4, 2018, at 8:25 PM, Anna Dresner <wadres...@att.net> wrote: > > Hi Keith, > > Both types of backups back up all of the same information. If you restore > from a backup, even iTunes backups download your apps from the app store if > you restore from them, so there isn't a speed advantage in restoring from > iTunes either. I would suggest backing up with icloud on a regular basis and > doing an encrypted iTunes backup before you get a new device so that if you > have to restore from the backup, the iTunes one is available in case > something is wrong with the iCloud one. > > Best, > Anna > > >> On Sep 4, 2018, at 6:22 PM, 'Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.' via VIPhone >> <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I understand iCloud backups are getting close to encrypted iTunes backups. >> Is there still an advantage or advantages to encrypted iTunes backups? >> >> Thanks in advance. Keith >> >> -- >> 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. Mark can be reached at: >> mk...@ucla.edu. Your list 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. > > -- > 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. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list 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. -- 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. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list 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.
