How to Turn Off Automatic iCloud Backups on an iPhone

Written by Jack Lloyd

This wikiHow teaches you how to disable iCloud backups on an iPhone.

Steps

1
Open your iPhone's Settings. Do so by tapping the grey gear icon on one of your Home screens (it might also be in a folder named "Utilities").
2
Scroll to the fourth group of options and select iCloud.

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3
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
4
Select Backup. This is above the "Find My iPhone" option toward the bottom of the screen.
5
Slide the iCloud Backup switch left to the "Off" position. It will turn grey, signifying that your phone will no longer automatically back up to iCloud.

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If you disable iCloud backups, you'll want to make sure you're regularly connecting your iPhone to iTunes on a computer in order to back up your data there.

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