When you sign up to i. Cloud as a backup solution, you get up to 5GB of free storage that can be used to backup all types of data including photo, messages, videos and purchase history for music, movies, TV shows, books, and apps. It is however not clear whether you can back up your Safari History on i, and cloud.
You’ll fill it up fast, so you need to be judicious about what you store in an i. Cloud backup if you want the best i, and phone experience. This is especially true if you have, say, both an i. Phone and an i, and pad.
Can I backup Safari history to iCloud?
As we have already seen, it is not clear whether you can backup Safari history to i, and cloud. Apple describes the data you can backup to i. Cloud and Safari history isn’t one of them. But when we access the i. Cloud backup using an i. Cloud backup viewer, we found i. Cloud do backup Safari history as well.
How to backup Safari bookmarks on iPhone and iPad?
Step 1: On your i. Phone or i. Pad, tap on the settings app. Step 2: Tap on i. Cloud and then turn on “Safari”. The next time when your device automatically backs up to i. Cloud, Safari bookmarks and even history will be backed up along with your other device data to i, and cloud.
Does safari sell your data?
It does sell ads, but on a much smaller scale, based on your history in its News app and App Store. If you want to see your Apple data As we discovered when we downloaded our data directly back from Facebook and Google, the social network had made copies of every photo I’d ever posted and held onto phone numbers, addresses and names of my friends.
Does apple or Google sell your data?
So in essence, Apple and Google have the data to identify you, but they just don’t share it with others. That said, we have our complicated answer to the simple question of ‘Does Apple sell my data? Neither Apple nor Google are directly selling your data, but they’re selling numbers.
It isn’t because Apple is collecting less data, but because it chooses to use it differently. For instance, when we consider the above-mentioned data, we can see that Apple and Google collect similar data. Thanks to more awareness, the privacy policies are also transparent enough for you to see how it is used.
Is Safari safe to use?
On the bright side, there are plenty of other excellent security features packed into Safari. Cross-site tracking is when one website you visit can target your activity even after you’ve left the original site entirely.
Also, does Safari need a passcode?
Apple has a ton of privacy-related features for Safari, many of which are enabled by default, but there are still plenty of settings you should check to make sure you’re surfing the web as securely as possible. While Safari might not require a passcode to access it, your i. Phone sure does.
How to turn off iCloud backup of saved settings?
That being said, not all apps need saved settings. If you’re not worried about losing any of this information, you can disable automatic i. Cloud backups for all apps, or you can limit which apps get backed up and which ones don’t. To disable it entirely, go to Settings -> i. Cloud -> Storage & Backup and make sure i. Cloud Backup is turned off.