Does Apple cloud backup, backup files in user created folders?

[Affinity Rat]

 

I presently maintain my own iPad backups, dont use the Apple icloud feature partially because I dont know what it does. Sure it backups up files in system folders and folders created by apps, but what about files created in user created folders? 

My current backup software does not, only ios created folders. 

[Brian_J]

iCloud Backup backs up everything that isn’t already synced to iCloud, including ‘On My iPad’ in the Files app.

What does iCloud back up?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/108770

[Affinity Rat]

Thank you BJ I know what Apple says, but its not clear to me. Each app has its own data, and possibly a place where that is stored by default. For instance using Owl files, file manager it creates a folder called Owl files and saves data there. This is just like Affinity Photo, a folder is created and by default files are saved there. If the user is afraid of what happens with Affinity Photo where crashes fill a folder with corrupt data deleting the data is the way of fixing the problem. Apples file manager is very buggy and always has been, many hangs using it sometimes locking up iPad. So I suspect the Apple backup software will backup files in default locations created by apps but not necessarily folder created by the user that were not created when the app that uses them was created.

Using any other computer this would seem a ridiculous question, but not so with the iPad. Without some sort of file manager I dont think the iPad can create a folder, thats the way Apple want it, keeps things tidy and more reliable. So using Apples buggy file manager app, I create folders, and hence my question, will files contained here (my Affinity Files) be backed up.

Maybe the consensus is save everything in the cloud in default locations.

What I dont like is the commonly used phrase regarding iPad apps is the “app and its data” well what precisely does that mean? “and its data” is that user created data? If so where is it? This exact wording is why I lost Affinity Photo files when I deleted the app. ie and “its data” meant user created that were contained in the default folder.

If I used Affinity Photo to save data in a user created folder, is this included as part of “its data” does the app retain hooks to data in other locations and include that in the description “ its data” this is important to know, somehow I suspect that data in users defined locations is not part of the apps data and therefore excluded from backup. Which to me means this is not a backup, in the context of other computers, as a purpose of a backup is to prevent user created data loss.

 

 

L

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, Affinity Rat said:

will files contained here (my Affinity Files) be backed up.

Yes. If the folder is on your iPad, and visible in the Files application, it will be backed up as part of the standard iCloud backup process.

 

[Affinity Rat]

Thank you Walt.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.