You can back up to iCloud which you would do in Settings, iCloud, Backup. You can turn Backup on and this automatically backs up your phone's settings once a day as long as your phone is connected to power and I believe it has to be on WiFi for the automatic backup. You can also initiate a backup by tapping on the "Backup Now" button.
I do have iCloud backup turned on, but I also back up my iPhone using iTunes. So, yes, you do need iTunes if you want o manually backup to your computer rather than to the cloud via the internet. If you do backup with iTunes I suggest you turn on encrypted backup since it does a more complete backup which includes all your passwords and so on. To do an encrypted backup for the first time in iTunes, do this: 1. Connect your phone to your computer and open iTunes (I am assuming you have iTunes installed on your computer). 2. Go to your device in iTunes and then tab a lot until you find the checkbox to turn on encrypted backup. Check it with the spacebar. 3. You will be asked to enter a password to protect your backup, enter it and then tab to enter it again for verification then tab to OK and activate it with the spacebar or enter key. 4. Your backup will automatically start. 5. To back up your phone again later, just go to "File", "Devices" and select backup from the options. Keep in mind that a backup will not back up any music or other media you synced to your phone via iTunes. It will backup the settings and that includes what was synced, but if for example you deleted all your music that you had previously synced and did a restore from a backup, that music would not be restored if it is no longer in your iTunes library. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raggedy Ann Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 5:54 AM To: IPhone Subject: backing up IPhone I have a IPhone 5C and I need to back it up. I have no idea how to do this. Do I need a special program or do I just connect it to the computer and go from there. Is ITunes necessary for backing up the phone? Thanks. Ann -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- 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 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Visit this group at http://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 viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
