iTunes vs iCloud backups

[sananda]

I currently back up my iPad and iPhone to my MacBook. Apart from privacy, is there any good reason why I should continue to do this? Or are the iCloud backups just as good?

 

[chscag]

I personally back up to both. Redundancy is always good when it comes to backing up valuable data and photos.

 

[Weaselboy]

If you backup to the Mac with encryption turned on, it saves all your logins and app passwords, making a restore to a new device much easier. An iCloud backup does not save those.

 

[Rigby]

I currently back up my iPad and iPhone to my MacBook. Apart from privacy, is there any good reason why I should continue to do this? Or are the iCloud backups just as good?

iTunes backup is more secure, stores some sensitive information that the cloud backup doesn't (if you enable encryption), and restoring a device from the backup is much faster.

 

[SalisburySam]

ICloud is more expensive, by far.

 

[sananda]

If you backup to the Mac with encryption turned on, it saves all your logins and app passwords, making a restore to a new device much easier. An iCloud backup does not save those.

Interesting! That’s much more convenient and I’m already backing up to my Mac with encryption on.