Backing up your inventory: Minvy Cloud and iCloud

A home inventory is exactly the record you can't afford to lose. It earns its keep on the worst day — after a theft, fire, flood, or an insurance claim — and that may also be the day the phone you cataloged everything on is lost or damaged. Backing up means your inventory survives even when your device doesn't. Minvy gives you two independent ways to do that.

Minvy Cloud back-up (Premium)

With Premium (and during the Intro trial), your inventory is backed up to Minvy's secure cloud continuously, as you work:

• Automatic — every item, photo, and document you add or edit syncs in the background. There's no "backup day" to remember and nothing to configure.
• Available everywhere — the same up-to-date inventory on your iPhone and in the Minvy web app at minvy.ai. Replace or lose your phone, sign back in, and everything is there.
• Off-site by design — a copy lives outside your home, so it survives events that could take your devices with them.

How your data is protected

• Encrypted in transit (TLS) and encrypted at rest on our servers.
• Stored privately per account — only your signed-in account can access your inventory. Sharing is opt-in, scoped, and revocable by you.
• File versioning guards against accidental overwrites.
• We never sell your data or use it to train AI models. See minvy.ai/privacy for the full policy.

iCloud: extra protection for every iPhone user

Whatever plan you're on, your iPhone's own iCloud Backup can always protect your Minvy data too:

1. Turn on iCloud Backup on your phone (Settings > [Your Name] > iCloud > iCloud Backup). Minvy's on-device data — items, photos, and documents — is then included in your regular phone backups automatically.
2. Restore works the way you'd expect: set up a new or erased iPhone from your iCloud backup and your Minvy inventory comes back with it.

Not on Premium? Minvy also offers an in-app iCloud Backup (beta) — Settings > iCloud Backup in the app — which saves a backup of your inventory to your personal iCloud Drive and lets you restore it on demand. (Premium accounts don't need this; their data is already backed up continuously by Minvy Cloud.)

Belt and braces

The two layers are independent: Minvy Cloud protects you even if your Apple ID or iCloud storage has a problem, and iCloud protects you regardless of your Minvy plan. Premium users effectively get both — continuous cloud back-up from Minvy, plus their normal iPhone backup.

Platform: iPhone + web