DearMob iPhone Manager vs iCloud

DearMob iPhone Manager lets you back up all iPhone data or selectively backup iPhone data like photos, videos, contacts, and more to your computer.

You can take unlimited backups for one device and the backup files can be saved on your computer or external drive as you prefer. Plus, restoring the local backup files is a risk-free process as DearMob will never overwrite the existing data on your Apple device without your permission.

iCloud Backup doesn't back up media files (such as music and movies) that aren't purchased from Apple digital media stores like iTunes Store and Apple Music Store. Files that are imported from computers or already stored in your iCloud account cannot be backed up either.

iCloud Backup will restore the purchased media files during the restore process.

If your purchases are no longer available in the iTunes Store, Apple Music Store, or iBooks Store, then you'll lose them forever. All your backup data is saved in the cloud. However, Apple only offers 5GB of free storage space.

DearMob iPhone Manager lets you transfer over 10,000 photos between iPhone and computer within 2 minutes which is amazingly fast! All your photos can be transferred in full resolution with the Exif data persevered, be they Live Photos, 4K HDR, or ProRaw photos.

Managing iPhone photos with DearMob is also a breeze, as you can easily organize pictures by albums, sort photos by capture data, mark photos as Favorite, delete unwanted photos..., and you're even allowed to encrypt photos exported from iDevices at military grade.

The built-in conversion feature helps you make HEIC/Live/Raw/GIF photos playable everywhere. According to your need, you can:

1. Convert HEIC to JPEG.
2. Save a Live Photo as one video and one image file.
3. Convert Raw photo to JPEG.
4. Export an edited photo in 2 versions: original and edited.

iCloud transfers photos between iDevices and computers by syncing. This arises a few issues.

For example, you can't transfer photos via iCloud without WiFi or data traffic; The photo exporting or importing process might take several hours; when deleting a photo from iCloud, the corresponding image will disappear from the cloud as well as all your iPhone and iPad devices; you're not allowed to upload specific photos from iPhone to iCloud.

One more disappointing thing is that you can't upload GIF, PNG, or any other photo format other than JPEG from your computer to iCloud.

DearMob iPhone Manager lets you quickly transfer all sorts of video files between your iPhone and computer at the original quality. With its unique DRM removal feature, you're able to decrypt the copyright protection from purchased movies, TV shows, and other media files, so you can watch them whenever and wherever. It also offers a one-click solution to encrypt the video files exported from your iPhone with the aim to protect your data and privacy.

The built-in conversion and compress features can come in handy in many situations:

1. You can easily share your HEVC files on major social media platforms by converting them to H.264.
2. You can edit the H.264 files converted from HEVC on a less-powerful computer without lagging.
3. You get more available space on iPhone after shrinking large videos.

iCloud transfers videos between iDevices and computers by syncing which might cause permanent data loss. The support for importing video files is absent, so it's not possible transferring video files from your computer to your iPhone via iCloud. There's no option to sort or export iPhone videos by the captured data.

Worse still, it can't transfer the video files purchased from iTunes Store.

DearMob iPhone Manager supports full and selective transfer, backup, and manage music files between iPhone devices and computers. It supports the import and export of all popular audio formats including MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, and WAV.

Music files purchased from iTunes Store and Apple Music Store can also be exported. Better yet, you can unlock the encryption via DearMob with a simple click.

iCloud Music Library automatically matches and replaces the existing songs or albums on your device with a higher quality version from the Apple Music streaming library which leads to errors like matching the wrong song and messing up the metadata information.

It's designed for syncing the existing content on Apple Music Library across all Apple devices. If you need to transfer music files that are not included in Apple Music, use iCloud Drive instead.

DearMob iPhone Manager makes it easy to transfer contacts between your iPhone and computer. You can export iPhone contacts as .vsf, .pdf, .text, or .html, protect the export with encryption, bulk delete unwanted contacts, get rid of duplicated contacts, and more within a few clicks.

iCloud automatically syncs your contacts across the devices that are logged with the same iCloud account. It doesn't give options to export contacts or transfer/delete contacts in bulk. You're not allowed to restore backup contacts to other iDeivecs without Apple ID restriction.

• Windows: Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7
• Mac: OS X 10.9 Mavericks to macOS 14.0 Sonoma

• Windows: Windows 11, 10
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