Comment by TeMPOraL

13 days ago

Except nobody wants to allow users to make backups themselves.

Or maybe I missed something, and there is actually a way to download your phone backup from Google, or PC backup from Microsoft, as actual files you can browse, without having to have a sacrificial device to wipe and restore from backup?

iPhone backups can be local at least. But the one time I used iCloud, I had to sacrifice a device just to load from backup.