# Is there a way to create automatic Backups on iOS or MacOS

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/is-there-a-way-to-create-automatic-backups-on-ios-or-macos/15413>\
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**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/is-there-a-way-to-create-automatic-backups-on-ios-or-macos/15413 "2025-02-26T09:43:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![dahan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/dahan/32/575_2.png) [@dahan](https://community.bear.app/u/dahan)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/is-there-a-way-to-create-automatic-backups-on-ios-or-macos/15413/1 "2025-02-26T09:43:02Z")

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Hi,

what is in general the backup concept of Bear? How can I go back to former notes and how am I protected against data loss or accidental deletion?

Is there a way to create automatic daily backups of all my notes and attachment? Preferably on iOS because I use Bear there way more often than on my Mac.

Personally, I would like to specify within Bear on iOS:

- do a daily backup of all my notes to a specified iCloud directory
- bonus:
  - encrypt the backup with user specified password (not sure about that, would have downsides like I can’t manually extract a certain note)
  - for users with a lot of attachements an option to only backup note content without attachments to speed up the process
  - to have a retention setting, e.g. last x days and automatically delete older backups after generating the new one.

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**Author:** ![dahan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/dahan/32/575_2.png) [@dahan](https://community.bear.app/u/dahan)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/is-there-a-way-to-create-automatic-backups-on-ios-or-macos/15413/2 "2025-02-26T12:10:30Z")

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I created a shortcut on my Mac that will do a backup to a specified iCloud folder.

However, as I wanted to run the shortcut on my iPhone its said the action is unknown. Is the Shortcut action `Backup` for Bear only on the Mac available?

Would be nice to have it on iOS as well.

By the way is there a solution how to run the Mac shortcut daily automatically?

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**Author:** ![roar](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/roar/32/223_2.png) [@roar](https://community.bear.app/u/roar)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/is-there-a-way-to-create-automatic-backups-on-ios-or-macos/15413/3 "2025-02-26T18:17:12Z")

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Two ways I know of on Mac:

### 1. Using the MAS app “Shortery.app”

Tiggers Shortcuts multiple ways. Scheduling is in the Pro version $9.99 per year,  
Or use the free version with limited number of triggers.

> **[Shortery App - App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shortery/id1594183810?mt=12)**
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### 2. Using MacOS Automator (Calendar app):

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/7/781893e9e0519da1e4f28162f5530fb56ec0bc64.jpeg)

That you can schedule with Apple Calendar app:

[Task Automation Mac Schedule Automator | Restackio](https://www.restack.io/p/task-automation-answer-mac-schedule-automator-cat-ai)