One of the most powerful features of both the iPhone and the iPad is the ability to automatically back up your data, including your apps, music, inspection reports, contact list, photos, notes, calendar information and voice memos, any time you connect to the web. The benefits of syncing your device are two-fold—first and foremost, syncing with an outside source like iCloud provides a fast and simple way to back up your data. Should your device break or get stolen, your data will be stored elsewhere and can simply be imported onto a new device. Secondly, syncing between your devices allows you to transfer valuable information, such as contact lists, between your iPhone and iPad in an instant. There are lots of different ways to sync your devices and each one is deserving of its own post. To keep this short and simple, here’s a run down of the major hubs where you may want to sync your device.
One way to ensure that all of your data gets backed up both to an outside storage service and gets shared between your devices is to sync to iCloud, Apple’s cloud storage service. As a side bonus, iCloud can also help you track down your device if you misplace it and can prevent those who shouldn’t see your data from breaking in. Head right over here to learn how to set up iCloud on your phone or iPad.
You can also sync your phone to most major e-mail providers including Google Gmail. This can be especially useful if you use those services to manage contact information on your sellers and home inspection clients or to manage your daily home inspection appointments. Syncing both your contacts and your calendar are similar processes. Here’s a quickie how-to on sharing contact information between devices and one on sharing calendar info.
If you use Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange, don’t worry. You can sync too. Head here to read up about connecting your Outlook calendar to your devices and here for information on setting up Microsoft Exchange on your iOS device. Yahoo! Mail, Contacts and Calendar users can step right this way to learn about how Yahoo! can work with the iPhone and iPad.
Of course, we’re always here to help too. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to reach out to info@tapinspect.com or call our customer service line at 502-414-1440.