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iCloud Backups No Longer Available for iPhones and iPads Running iOS 8 or Earlier

Making a device backup over iCloud (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/icloud/) now requires iOS 9 or later, which means iPhones and iPads that are running iOS 8 or earlier are no longer able to be backed up using ‌iCloud‌.



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Apple announced the change in November (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/18/apple-icloud-backup-ios-9-minimum/), and as of this week, it has gone into effect. Support for ‌iCloud‌ backups on devices that run iOS 8 or older has ended, and Apple has deleted all existing ‌iCloud‌ backups of those devices.



Apps and data stored on an iPhone (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/iphone/) or iPad (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipad/) running iOS 8 or earlier are not affected, and these devices can still be manually backed up to a Mac or a Windows PC. If you have a device on iOS 8 or older, if you can update, you can restore ‌iCloud‌ backup capabilities. Otherwise, all backups will need to be done manually.



Apple says that it discontinued &zwnj;iCloud&zwnj; backups for older devices to "more closely align" with its minimum software requirements. With the iOS 9 update that came out years ago, Apple adopted CloudKit for &zwnj;iCloud&zwnj; backups and stopped using an older system, and it looks like this older system is what's being sunset.<div class="linkback">Tag: iCloud (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/icloud/)</div><div class="linkback">Related Forum: Apple Music, Apple Pay/Card, iCloud, Fitness+ (https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/apple-music-apple-pay-card-icloud-fitness.134)</div>
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