How many icloud backups are kept

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Well, to keep it straight and simple, an Apple iCloud user can only make one backup for every single iOS device. Every time when the backup is performed, the older back up of the respective device gets merged with the new one. However, reportedly some users have seen at most 3 iCloud backups of same device over their account. When it comes to backing up your iOS device with iTunes, it's a bit different.

Though every time you perform a backup of your iOS device, the respective backup of it gets overwritten, just like iCloud. However, you have the privilege to save the older backup while making a new backup. For this you need to first 'Archive' your older backup and then perform new backup of the respective iOS device. With this classified information, we now hope that you're clear with how many backups iCloud or iTunes keeps. Improve this question. Nicolas Barbulesco Nicolas Barbulesco 2, 7 7 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. When you reach step six, your iPhone will ask you to choose an iCloud backup to restore—either the most recent one, or an earlier backup.

Note: If you have multiple iPads and iPhones synced to the same iCloud account, make sure to pick the right backup for your particular device. For more details, be sure to read this entire iCloud backup how-to. Improve this answer. So you must always maintain a recent backup of your iPhone and iPad at all times. The recommended way to backup your iPhone or iPad is to backup to iCloud Storage. By backing up your iPhone or iPad via iTunes, you maintain a local backup of your iOS device and your iCloud account storage is left to be used for something else.

I recently deleted an exchange account from my prior employer, not realizing doing so was going to also delete contacts I thought were saved directly to my Iphone. In reading other posts, I reset my Iphone in order to attempt to restore the phone based on a prior backup done two weeks prior, before I deleted the exchange account. However, when I hit the "show all backups" option to restore my phone, it only gave me the two most recent backups performed today and yesterday.

Is there a way to access and restore your phone to a backup performed two weeks ago? I do pay for extra Icloud storage. Thanks in advance. Posted on Sep 16, PM.