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Managing iCloud And Wireless Syncing In iOS 5
Mar 11, 2025
A how-to on some of Apple's newest software
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hey everyone I'm going to show you how
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you can manage their iCloud storage and
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backups as well as iTunes Wi-Fi sync in
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iOS 5 so being that I cloud and what I
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was thinking were a couple of the big
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features with iOS 5 it's definitely
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something worth looking into so like a
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lot of things in iOS first stuff you're
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going to want to go into settings and
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from here you're going to scroll down
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until you see the iCloud tab now this
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tab is also where you can configure
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iCloud on your device if you haven't yet
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and you can see here I've set it up I
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have all these different settings turn
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on so if i scroll down a little bit more
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i get to this storage and backup tab and
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if I select that I can see my total
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storage which is 5 petabytes and that's
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the standard that you get with iCloud
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and how much is available and if I
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scroll down a little bit more I can turn
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on or off iCloud backup and I can back
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up right now or I could even hit manage
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storage and from here I can see a little
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more detailed information so for example
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how much space documents and data and
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mail are taking up on my ipod as well as
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backups so you can see in this backup
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from 532 p.m. is 1.9 gigabytes and you
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can see how much space each thing takes
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up and in the back up and I can delete
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the backup or I can see how much space
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total I have an iCloud app right at the
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bottom and if I go back one tab I can
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even click on buy more storage and if
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you don't know about this it's pretty
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neat because you can upgrade from the
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free 5 gigabytes storage to 10 gigs 20
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gigs or 50 gigs and those are 20 40 and
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100 hours per year now personally I
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won't really recommend going over 10
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gigs I think five gigs is probably
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enough for almost everybody personally I
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might be able to make use of the 10
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gigabyte package but I think for most
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users 5 gigabytes should be plenty so
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now when I want to back up my iPad in
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this case assume
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when I set up my advice I selected back
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up to iCloud and not back up the
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computer all I really have to do now is
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just hit back up now and it's going to
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back up and it'll estimate the time
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remaining as you can see at the bottom
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so that's all there really is to
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managing iCloud and your backups with
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iOS 5 it's pretty easy and just as a
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side note you can also backup your
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computer and iCloud if you so choose and
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I'll show you that in a couple minutes
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so if I go back out to my main settings
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window and I hit general from here I can
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scroll down until I see itunes Wi-Fi
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sync and it's kind of hidden from plain
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view you have to kind of dig in a couple
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menus to find it but it's right here
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under general and now what you see here
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has been perplexing a lot of people
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apple says this is wireless syncing but
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if you what you can see here it says
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sync with itunes on your computer when
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your ipod touch is plugged into power am
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connected to Wi-Fi now people are saying
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it kind of defeats the purpose of
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wireless syncing so my ipod is connected
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to Wi-Fi and if i plug it in you can see
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that a sink now will become an option
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and i'll be able to use wireless syncing
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but it kind of defeats the purpose and a
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lot of people have been saying this
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because now my ipod is plugged in to my
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computer with itunes open so what's
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really the difference between this and
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the old method of singing well i thought
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this at first too but there's a handy
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thing you can check in itunes that will
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enable your ipod to sync without having
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to be plugged in so once my device is
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plugged in and connected to the computer
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all i have to do is select it in the
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sidebar and here i can see a lot of
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options first off i can change whether i
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want to back up to iCloud or back up to
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this computer so this is where you can
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enable iCloud backups if you haven't
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done that already if you look a little
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bit below that you'll be able to see the
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setting i was talking about all i have
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to do is check sink this ipod over Wi-Fi
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and then click apply in the corner and
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they'll take just a second that's all
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you have to do to configure your device
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to sync without having to be plugged in
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so now you can see that even if i unplug
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my ipod from the wall or the computer
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the sink and I option still remains
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available and i can hit sync now
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it'll start sinking and you'll know that
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your device is syncing with itunes
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because you'll see this little sinking
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animation up i need ur status bar now of
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course you still need to have itunes
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open to do this but at least you don't
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have to be connected to the computer if
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you just leave itunes open you can go
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anywhere in your house and continue
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using your device without having you
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have it plugged in and without having to
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directly interface of iTunes so there
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you go there's how you can manage iCloud
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backups as well as iTunes wireless
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syncing in iOS 5 as always if you have
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anything you'd like to see me do a howl
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to on whether it's Mac OS 10 or iOS make
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sure send me an email I hope you found
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this video useful and thank you for
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watching
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