No back-up to iCloud

[Mil0]

I recently had to take my iPad Pro running iOS 12.0 at the time in for service. I backed the entire iPad up to iCloud beforehand. It turned out I needed a completely new device. So I downloaded the back-up to set it up. Files, some of them videos, in other apps like Documents & SecureBrowser were reinstated, but not one video in VLC. The only thing which carried over was a folder I had created, but it, like the rest of the All Files page was empty. Any ideas why this happened & how I can avoid it in the future. I had plenty of space in iCloud, so storage capacity was not an issue

[fkuehne]

VLC does explicitly opt-out from iCloud backup because most users have more than 5 GB of media synced, so VLC would single handedly exceed the limit of the vast majority of users. There is no option to disable this behavior in VLC.