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title: "How to backup apps, contacts, media and photos on your iPhone X?"  
description: "How to backup apps, contacts, media and photos on your iPhone X?"  
author: "Deepak Aiyappa"  
published: 2018-10-15  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50475/how-to-backup-apps-contacts-media-and-photos-on-your-iphone-x  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["iphone x"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# How to backup apps, contacts, media and photos on your iPhone X?

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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

The instructions below will guide you through the **process of backing up your iPhone X data to iCloud.** You'll need a Wi-Fi connection on your device to continue. Enable Wi-Fi on your iPhone X if it isn't already, then **follow these steps**: \

1. On the Home screen**, tap Settings.**
2. At the top of the list, **tap your Apple ID.**
3. To sign in, enter your **Apple ID credentials** if requested.
4. To continue, **tap [iCloud.](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50786/what-to-do-about-an-apple-iphone-7-that-won-t-backup-to-icloud)**
5. **Touch the slider next** to the applications you want to back up, then tap the iCloud Backup app at the bottom of the list.
6. To back up your contacts, switch on the Contacts slider, choose Merge contacts with iCloud (if requested), and then **hit the iCloud Backup app a**t the bottom of the list.
7. To back up your phone's media and photographs, go to Photos**, switch on the iCloud Photo** Library slider, return to iCloud, and then hit the iCloud Backup app at the bottom of the list.
8. If required, enable **iCloud Backup.**
9. Finally, **press the Back Up** Now button to finalize the activity.

**[Read more](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50457/why-does-my-iphone-x-unable-to-connect-to-wi-fi-no-internet-access-and-how-to-fix-it)**


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