You need a backup plan for your phone — here’s how to pick between iCloud and Google Drive

ICloud and Google Drive on phones.

If there’s one thing that I am generally terrible at, it’s remembering to back up all my data. And in my line of work, that has the potential to be a disaster. I spend a lot of time on my laptop and my phone, so both devices include a lot of important data that I can’t afford to lose.

I nearly fell victim to this not too long ago when I migrated from an iPhone 14 Pro Max to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. In the process, I nearly lost a bunch of important photos and documents that would have been safe and sound had I been backing things up. (Foolishly, I turned off automatic backups to save on data.)