Backing up your mobile device to Acronis Cloud

A mobile backup is your guarantee that data on your mobile device is safe and can be recovered in case of corruption or loss. You can also use the backup to transfer your personal data from your old mobile device to a new one. Refer to Acronis Mobile for details.

To back up your mobile data to Acronis Cloud

  1. Start Acronis Mobile.
  2. Tap the SET UP button to create your first backup. Note that this button occurs only the first time you back up your mobile device. In all other cases, tap the plus button to create a new backup.
  3. Select Acronis Cloud as a backup destination.
  4. Create a new account or sign in to your Acronis account.
  5. Select the data categories that you want to back up, or skip this step to back up all data.

  6. Enable Encrypt Backup to protect your backup by encryption. In this case, you will need to also:

    • Enter an encryption password.

    • Clear the Save password check box. Please note that in this case you will have to enter your password every time you need to access the backed up data.

    • Tap ENCRYPT.
  7. Tap BACK UP.
  8. Allow Acronis Mobile to access the data to be backed up.

When the backup is complete, your data is uploaded to the secure Acronis Cloud.

If you want data changes (for example, new photographs) to be backed up automatically, make sure the Continuous backup setting is turned on. If this setting is turned off, new data is backed up only when you tap BACK UP. Refer to Mobile app settings for details.

After the backup is set up, you can also start it with a voice command to Siri. To do that, first configure the Siri shortcut in the Shortcuts app or in the Acronis Mobile app.

To add a shortcut to a backup from Shortcuts

  1. In My Shortcuts, tap Create Shortcut.
  2. In New Shortcut, tap Add Action.
  3. Tap Apps, and then tap Acronis Mobile.
  4. In Acronis Mobile, tap Start backup to Cloud.
  5. In New Shortcut, tap Next.
  6. Enter the shortcut name.

To add a shortcut to a backup from Acronis Mobile

  1. In Acronis Mobile, tap the gear icon on the backup you want to add to shortcuts.
  2. Tap Add to Siri, and enter the shortcut name.
  3. Tap Add to Siri.

After the shortcut is created, to run a backup, say "Hey Siri," and then the shortcut name.

To remove a shortcut to a backup

  1. In the Shortcuts app, tap the ellipsis icon on the shortcut you want to remove.
  2. Tap Delete.

The shortcut will be removed.