If you are the iPhone user, then you must save a lot of important data on your device, such as contacts, messages, photos, calendars, and notes. You know how difficult it is to get data back if you delete them by mistake and without any backup. So it is highly recommended to backup your iPhone regularly to prevent data loss. iCloud provides all users a free use of 5GB storage space so you can sync and backup data from your iPhone to iCloud. In this article, we will introduce you how to backup files to iCloud and view iCloud backup on your computer.
With iCloud, you are allowed to free sync up to 5GB files from your iPhone to the cloud storage. Follow the tutorial to learn how to sync files to iCloud and view iCloud backup.
1. Tap Settings on the screen of your iPhone.
2. Go to your name > iCloud, tap to enable the files sync with your iCloud account.
3. Open a browser on your computer, go to icloud.com and log in with your Apple account.
4. In the main interface, you'll see the categories of supported files. Click the file type to view iCloud backup on your computer.
If you prefer to backup and view your iPhone files directly on your computer, then you'd better use a third-party tool to help you complete the task. Qiling MobiMover - the iPhone data transfer tool as well as iPhone backup software, will help to transfer or back up your iPhone data to computer.
Since you want to view iPhone files on the computer, I recommend you try the data transfer feature instead of backup. If you transfers data from iPhone to computer, you can make a copy of your precious iPhone files and view them whenever you want. While if you use the backup feature, you won't be able to access the details in the backup, but can restore a device from it, which is quite convenient.
To transfer data from iPhone to computer:
Step 1. Connect your iPhone to PC running Windows 10 with a USB cable. Once connected, tap on "Trust" on your iPhone screen if pops up. Open Qiling MobiMover and navigate to the "Phone to PC" mode. Move your mouse to the right pane and click "Next" to continue.
Step 2. All the apps available to your iPhone is loaded here. You can choose all or a certain type to proceed. Before that, you can also customize a storage path to keep the transferred content. Otherwise, it will keep on your Windows 10 desktop. Once made the decision, click "Transfer" to transfer files from iPhone to PC Windows 10
Step 3. Wait until the process finished. Besides Windows 10, MobiMover also supports you to transfer data from an iOS device to Windows 7 and Windows 8 computer.
More features about Qiling MobiMover:
Transfer files between two iOS devices: You can choose to sync all content or copy a specific category from one iOS device to another.
Copy data between an iOS device and computer: No matter you want to put music to iPhone or save iPhone text messages to computer, you can get it done using MobiMover.
Manage iDevice content: By deleting/editing the existing files on your iPhone or adding new items to your device, you can easily manage your iDevice content from computer.
Download videos from websites: With the video download feature, you can download videos from Vimeo, YouTube, Instagram, Dailymotion, and other popular video sites.