{"id":263,"date":"2018-08-06T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2018-08-06T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T05:26:54","slug":"what-is-an-apple-id-what-is-icloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/what-is-an-apple-id-what-is-icloud\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an Apple ID? What is iCloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is an Apple ID?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we get an iPhone, iPad or Mac we must create an Apple ID.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Think of an Apple ID like a PAN number. All of our bank accounts, investments, etc. are linked using our PAN number. That&#8217;s how the Income Tax Department recognises us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the very same way, Apple recognises us by our Apple ID. Everything inside the world of Apple is linked to our Apple ID.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Apple ID can be our existing email address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple also offers a free ID which ends with &#8220;@icloud.com&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So we can create an ID like &#8220;john@icloud.com&#8221; or &#8220;john.doe@icloud.com&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Apple ID can be anything we like!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is iCloud?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">iCloud is a cloud storage service offered by Apple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To learn more about cloud storage, please check out my post <a href=\"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/what-is-the-cloud-or-cloud-storage\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple automatically provides us with 5 GB of iCloud Storage free!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also provide iCloud Backup to back up all of our important data to iCloud. This includes our Photos, Mail, Messages, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders and Notes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This means that when we get a new device (iPhone, iPad or Mac) we just need to sign in with our Apple ID and all of our data is available! Pretty cool right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Certain apps also automatically backup their data to iCloud. The most common example of this is WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What happens most of the time is that 5 GB is simply not enough space to backup all of our data. This typically happens if we have a lot of photos and videos or a large number of apps installed. Even WhatsApp data can be huge!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once we reach the 5 GB limit, it&#8217;s time to upgrade. Apple has provided many options depending on the size of our data and our budget.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The monthly prices are as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-267 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-2018-08-02-at-3.25.43-PM.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2018-08-02 at 3.25.43 PM\" width=\"161\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-2018-08-02-at-3.25.43-PM.png 320w, https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screenshot-2018-08-02-at-3.25.43-PM-281x300.png 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I strongly recommend that you upgrade depending on the size of your data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can check this by:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Launching the Settings App<\/li>\n<li>Tap your Apple ID banner<\/li>\n<li>Tap iCloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do we need to Upgrade?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our data is extremely important to us and we wouldn&#8217;t want to risk it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s an extremely small cost to pay for peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we get an iPhone, iPad or Mac we must create an Apple ID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technesium.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}