Hello all, I am trying to back up only settings configuration to the iCloud. But I didn’t find any option to do so. While enabling iCloud back up all the apps data is backing up. Can I know why it is happening? This is not the case with android. Recently I converted from android to iOS. In android, we can backup call logs, messages, settings, and etc. But in iOS I am saying for all the apps we are getting a back up option. I don’t know why it is used. Because if you take Gmail , it is doesn’t require any back up. Because if we sign in with our Google account automatically, our emails will appear there. My question is, how can I back up only the Settings configuration and also the Netwerk information such as Wi-Fi passwords. And also call logs and messages.?
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Not possible
It's not possible to only backup iOS settings. However, iCloud backup isn't backing up the apps themselves, only the settings for the apps. This seems logical to me, as I can't imagine a scenario where I want to restore only iOS settings and not the settings of the apps that I use. I would guess that the speed and space difference wouldn't be significant.
Can you explain why you only want iOS settings backed up? What is the use case where this is preferable? Just curious ☺️
The use cases are,
I don’t know why we need to back up application settings to the iCloud. For example, if I logged in in YouTube with my Google account, all my settings will be automatically applied there. One big issue for me backing up all the application Settings are I need to purchase and plan for the iCloud. But I’m not willing to do that now. If you backup only settings to the iCloud. When we use a new device or reset our device. We can directly apply all our settings like Ringtones volume dark mode, wallpaper, etc. I want to tell you this before I am an android user specifically and Samsung fan. In the device we have option to back up all the settings to that they’re on cloud service call Samsung Drive. We can back up all the settings, configurations like I said before that the dark mode The talkback settings and also the ringtones Bluetooth devices, etc. If you have same functionality in iOS, we can directly import all our voiceover settings from our previous device to a new device or if we are resetting the same device. Only for that I am thinking to use my iCloud Drive. For all the remaining stuff I am using Google Drive and also the Google photos.