Do You Really Need to Back-up Your iPhone?

The short answer is yes, of course you do! One’s phone is a critical part of life, containing apps, utilities and data that are often invaluable. There are countless ways that you could lose your messages, photos, videos, app settings and logs, making the need for a good backup solution ever-present.

Once implemented, a regular backup schedule will ensure that regardless if your phone has been lost, stolen, broken or otherwise compromised, you will always have a safe backup of everything. Backing up your phone or tablet is a task that has been made extremely easy thanks to many handy apps.

No longer does one need to employ the services of a technician to backup, restore or transfer files and settings from you mobile device to a safe location.

 

The Ever-Growing Risk of Theft

We report here that in 2013, 4.5 million smartphones were lost or stolen. This should be reason enough to motivate you towards seeking a reliable backup solution! Furthermore a study conducted by Lookout.com revealed some starling statistics regarding the theft of smartphones.

Forty four percent of smartphones were stolen as a result of being left in a public area, fourteen percent were stolen from inside a car or house, and eleven percent were stolen off the victim’s person. Their study also showed that 39{76ac33845123b25982ffda0eb6f606179ce899e677f3c86d035d7b9fa6b6d307} of stolen phones are Apple iPhones and 37{76ac33845123b25982ffda0eb6f606179ce899e677f3c86d035d7b9fa6b6d307} are Android devices.

Backing up your data is critical with this same study reflecting that out of the whopping 90{76ac33845123b25982ffda0eb6f606179ce899e677f3c86d035d7b9fa6b6d307} of all smartphone theft victims who take action, only 32{76ac33845123b25982ffda0eb6f606179ce899e677f3c86d035d7b9fa6b6d307} actually recover their phone!

 

Malware on Official App Stores

Safe browsing habits and downloading only from authorized app stores may not put you out of harm’s way when looking at mobile malware. In September of 2015 the Google Play store’s app verification service, Bouncer, was bypassed yet again, leaving malicious apps present on the store.

These apps only had their true function revealed once 200,000 devices had been infected. Apple is well known to have its own bout of hassles with their app store, with many apps making it past their security mechanisms by means of an Xcode exploit. It is evident that your smartphone is at constant risk.

With viruses and malware capable of deleting or corrupting all the data on your device you would be well advised to perform regular backups.

 

Device Broken – What Now?

Physical damage can often shatter any hopes that you may have of data recovery, with the storage medium often being corrupted or damaged at the same time as your phone. Certain apps, such as Dr. Fone for iOS, do make it possible to recover data from a broken device, but do you really want to run the risk?

Water damage is often irreparable, at times damaging your device to the extent that it does not even switch on. A device that won’t power up cannot easily be recovered from and you will be left relying on any backups that you may have in place as the only hope of getting your messages, photos and videos back.

If your backup is out of date, or if you don’t have one at all, then your chances of data recovery may be slim given certain types of device failure. Once a storage medium begins to suffer integrity loss you may find photos and messages corrupt, often to the point where they cannot be recovered.

In a case like this a recent backup is your only way of retrieving these damaged files.

 

Maintain Regular Backups

Fortunately there is a host of applications that make backing up your iPhone a relatively painless process. One excellent option is MobileTrans from WonderShare.

Their app allows you to transfer files, apps and settings between devices, as well as allowing you to create a backup of your entire device to a desktop computer. It is very simple to use and is one of the most reliable ways to ensure that everything on your iPhone or Android is safely backed up.

Maintaining a current backup is the best way to rest assured that you will never lose anything in the case of theft, loss, damage or data corruption.