But the advantage that external hard drives have is that you'll always have access to your data, even if you lose internet access, and even if you can't remember your account password. Any cloud ...

Backing up important files and data remains vitally important, especially with all manner of security and hardware issues, ranging from hard disk failures to malware attacks. While copying data to ...

It'll appear as a tiny iPhone icon in the top-left in iTunes ... and drag that over to your external hard drive (or a different cloud service like Google Drive). Now you can delete the copy ...