On 9/19/16 3:02 PM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [apple-iphone] wrote:
>>>> I only see last backup, not any older ones.
>>>> David
>>> Does iCloud keep more than one backup of any device?
>> Manage Storage shows two backups of my iPhone. They both have the name of my iPhone, and under the first it says "This iPhone". If I try to delete the other one, it says "Do you want to turn off backup and delete all backup data for "<iPhone>" from iCloud?" I don't want to do either of those, so I don't know how I delete just the one backup.
>> Brian
>
> I always make certain that each of my devices has its own unique name: "iPad Baby Pro", "Jim's iPhone 6+", "Bonnie's iPhone 5S".
As do I.
> If you really are backing up only a single iPhone,
I am.
> and you cannot tell which of the 2 entries with identical names is which in iCloud
I can tell which is which, one says "This iPhone" under the name and was
updated 2:55AM this morning, the other was last updated in July (plus
the current one has more information). The problem is there doesn't seem
to be a way to just delete the older backup. At least if I believe the
alert I get (I haven't actually tried it), I can only delete both
backups and turn backups off.
> , I suggest you make an encrypted iTunes backup of that device, then turn off "Backup to iCloud", and delete the iCloud backups, then wait a day to be sure everything has been communicated between iPhone, iTunes, and iCloud, give your device a unique name, and then turn iCloud backup back on.
That's what I plan on doing (except I'll force an iCloud backup instead
of waiting and it already has a unique (to me) name), although I think
I'm going to bug Apple about it first.
Brian
Posted by: "Brian L. Matthews" <blmatthews@gmail.com>
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