Yes, if you just sign into any Mac or iOS device with your account, any data you had synced will appear. This won't sync installed apps, but basic content and even some data in supported apps will all work fine.
For mail, you need an iCloud account. You create one by, as you said, checking the "mail" checkbox in iCloud settings. Confusingly this will technically be a second Apple ID, so you will not be able to use this new address as your ID to replace the one you use now. Still, the process is simple enough. I am not sure how well iCloud.com works for contact editing, but you can go in and give it a try as soon as you enable contact syncing over iCloud and let your phone push its content to Apple's servers. If you use Outlook, I believe Apple offers iCloud integration via their iCloud Control Panel; you could manage contacts that way if the website doesn't work out. On Jun 24, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Hicks Steven (CORNWALL IT SERVICES) <steven.hi...@nhs.net> wrote: > Thanks, that is brilliant, so in theary, if I back up the contacts and change > my phone, setting up the account on the new phone will synchronise them back? > > I tried to go in to mail but no account was there e.g. inbox or anything. > I added a new ICloud account but it then said that account was already added, > do I need to go in to settings and tick mail or something so that I can then > go in to mail and use my ICloud account to send and receive messages etc? > Can you edit your contacts by logging in to the ICloud? I jhave lots of > contacts that I would like to add and also add email addresses to the > existing ones which I haven't done until now, it may be quicker to edit these > if I can do it using my PC and a full keyboard, I am still quite slow with > the touch screen. > > Thanks again for all your kind help, the more I get in to my IPhone, the more > it amazes me to be honest, it is so powerful and you can do so much with it, > more like a pocket laptop than a phone J > And Apple write the screen reader which is a real bonus in my opinion. > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Alex Hall > Sent: 24 June 2014 21:22 > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: ICloud Account > > Yes to both. Once you start syncing anything (contacts, calendars, reminders, > Safari, etc) with iCloud, the data is backed up each time you change it and > the app sycs. Full iCloud backups of your device happen when the device is > connected to wifi and locked, but backups of iCloud-synced data go on all the > time. > > You can log into www.icloud.com and access the things you normally can on > your phone, so long as you are backing them up. That site is not great with > screen readers, but most of it is usable. However, all this data syncs to > iCloud devices, not just the site. So, when I add contacts on my Mac, my > phone has them as well, for instance. Or if you had an iPad as well, you > could set up some calendar appointments on that and they would appear on your > phone. > On Jun 24, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Hicks Steven (CORNWALL IT SERVICES) > <steven.hi...@nhs.net> wrote: > > > Hi friends, > > I have just set myself up with an ICloud account, I did it using the wizard > on the phone. > In the settings there ar some check boxes, if I select the contacts, does > this mean that my contacts will be copied from the phone to the ICloud > account so that I can use it as a backup? > Can I i edit the contact information on the ICloud and then update and > synchronise them back to the phone with the changes? > Please excuse my ignorance, I am a new IPhone user and still finding my way > around. > > Take care all. > > > ******************************************************************************************************************** > > This message may contain confidential information. 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