
A Twitter friend gave me a license key, and I found out just how useful this is, especially in this era where Apple is actively shutting down the ways that we have to archive our data. Thankfully, there is a tool that can help you out with backing up and transferring your save games, and it’s called iMazing. iCloud support in apps works better than it once did, I suppose, but “something goes wrong" is still the unofficial motto of iCloud saves, and it’s far from a standardized feature even years after its introduction.

I often like to restore devices to a clean state, then reinstall games with their saves outside of the traditional iTunes/iCloud backup process. And on PC, you can always hunt down the save files on your hard drive, and Steam Cloud works pretty well!Ĭompare this to iOS, which was bad enough before Apple decided to shut down access to each app’s sandbox through third-party tools like iFunBox in iOS 8.3. Consoles give you a decent set of options to protect your games, even if you delete your games from your hard drive, and even supporting cloud saves in many cases.


If you have progress in a game you want to back up to ensure that it’s never lost, you’re in the golden era of data protection. One of the things that is unquestionably better about PC and console gaming than mobile gaming is save game management.
