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Gary asked: “Started backing up my iPhone to the cloud. How do I go back and retrieve the things I put in the cloud like pictures? I can’t pull them up, once I send them out. I don’t know how to do that.”
Gary, it depends on which “cloud” you’re using.
If you’re using iCloud, you don’t go back and retrieve things, it just makes a full phone backup.
You can individually save pictures to iCloud Drive, but that’s not the same as the “iCloud backups.” Those are mostly just useful to restore your entire phone if you ever need to.
If you’re using iCloud, you don’t go back and retrieve things, it just makes a full phone backup.
If you’re using any other app, say Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon’s Cloud Drive, or basically any other one, you simply open the app and go through the list of files and folders the way you would on a computer’s hard drive.
iCloud only really works differently because it has the regular “backup” that creates an image of your phone, and the “drive” feature that acts as an external hard drive in the cloud. Don’t back up to iCloud thinking you’ll just be able to access individual files.