I would strongly suggest you and your family subscribe to iCloud. It reduces most back up issues to background noise, and makes a lot of things like setting up new devices, and using using notes or calendars on different devices even easier than on Google products (which I also use regularly and like).
Plus, you get the all important green text on one of your apps, which I don’t quite understand, but which I know is super important.
Plus, you get the all important green text on one of your apps, which I don’t quite understand, but which I know is super important.