iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Customize and use the homepage tiles
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
- Recover files and information
- Use iCloud on your Windows device
- Get more help with iCloud
- Legal notices and acknowledgements
- Copyright
View and manage iCloud device backups
You can view and manage your iCloud backups from an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Windows device.
If you want to customize which apps and data are backed up, see Back up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud.
WARNING: If you delete the iCloud backup for your iPhone or iPad, iCloud stops automatically backing up the device.
View and manage iCloud backups on your iPhone or iPad
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On your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud.
Tap iCloud Backup.
You see the devices with iCloud Backup turned on.
To delete a backup, tap the name of a device, then tap Turn Off and Delete from iCloud (or Delete & Turn Off Backup).
View and manage iCloud backups on your Mac
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Settings, then click your name at the top of the sidebar.If you don’t see your name, click “Sign in,” enter your Apple Account email address or phone number, then enter your password.
Click iCloud, click Manage, then click Backups. A list of devices that have iCloud Backup turned on is shown.
To delete a backup, select a device, then click Delete or
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View and manage iCloud backups on your Windows device
Open iCloud for Windows, then click Storage.
Click Backups on the left. On the right, you see devices with iCloud Backup turned on.
To delete a backup, select a device, then click Delete.
Note: If you turn off iCloud Backup for a device, any backups stored in iCloud are kept for 180 days before being deleted.
You can also use your computer to back up your device. See the Apple Support article How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.