How to backup or restore Iphone contacts by using ICloud or Email Address

Since people can send messages across Iphones, Ipads, and Ipod touches via iMessage and stuffs, the iOS users have to worry about backing up the device because as your fingers tips on the screen, your contacts might be disappear. To make sure that the contacts in their phones are not disappear, there can use two easy ways to backed up the data in their phones which are backing up contacts using iCloud and backing up contacts using an email address.

Backing up contacts using iCloud
iCloud is one of the easiest way to restore or back up your data or contacts. In order to use iCloud to estore or backed up the data in your phone, the device must be running iOS 5.x or above
1. Open up the setting and then run iOS 5.x or above, then select the iCloud cell.

2. Make sure that you set the Contact toggle on.

3. If an iCloud backup has never been performed before, you have to select Storage & Backup cell first.

4. Before you select the Back Uo Now option, you have to make sure that the iCloud backup is set on because this provides an estimated time to complete this process. This also requires a Wi-Fi connection.

5. If you use a new iOS device, make sure that the Contact toggle is set on to sync the backup contacts to new device by using the same Apple ID.

Backing up contacts using an email address

This method, we will use a Gmail account, but this should work any mail account that can sync through Microsoft Exchange.

1. Open up the setting and select the Mail, Contacts, Calendars option.

2. If you already have an account, but you want to add a new one, so select Add Account before selecting Microsoft Exchange.

3. Add the relevant email adress before adding account password or an informative description of the account.

4. Select Next before adding m.google.com and adding the email address again as the account username.

5. Then select Next and make sure that the Contacts toggle on the next screen is set on.

Major concepts

• Nowadays, people send messages across many devices, so they provide methods to restore or back up the data.
• There're two methods to restore or back up the contacts.
• First method is to back up contacts by using iCloud.
• Second method is to back up contacts by using an email address.

Potential Strengths/Advantages

• The author describes the method in an easy way by using short sentences and easy vocabulary that all people could understand.
• The author also posted the picture under the description. This is easy to follow the steps.

Potential Problems/Limitations/Disadvantages

• Some specific words such as Microsoft Exchange, the audiences might not know what is it. So this might create a confusing situation in the audiences.

Discussion Questions

• What is Microsoft Exchange?
• I don't really get step 2 in the second method.

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