iPhone How many icloud restore points are available

[automan98]

If I restore an iPhone from an iCloud backup, how many previous backups will it show? How many backups does icloud retain? Is it a rolling number (drops the oldest of them)?

Thanks!

 

[BugeyeSTI]

I just looked at my iCloud backups and I only have the most recent backup for each device. In iTunes, I have backups that go all the way back to iOS 11! I just deleted all in iTunes except the backups that are still signed by Apple as the others wont work anyway.

 

[MandiMac]

Only the most recent successful backup, which makes sense since it counts against your limited iCloud storage. Imagine the outcry if you would fill that measly 5 gigs of free iCloud storage in a matter of months just because you're backing your devices up with a Time Machine-esque mechanism. It would be so cool to have a) Time Machine in the cloud for iOS devices and b) not having it count against your iCloud storage.