How to back up iPhone with iCloud or to Mac or PC – Guide
If your iPhone were to be stolen or destroyed tomorrow, you’d have two options: restoring from a backup or starting over. While it’s easy to overlook the importance of backing up data, it’s essential for protecting your photos, settings and other irreplaceable information. Taking regular backups can help ensure that if the worst happens, you won’t lose everything. Replacing a lost device is expensive, but the cost of losing valuable data is even greater.
Backing up your device is essential to protect your photos, videos, notes, documents and other data. Without a backup, all of this information could be lost forever.
How to back up your iPhone with iCloud
To access your Apple ID settings, open the Settings app on your iPhone and select your name at the top of the screen.
Users can back up their Apple devices by accessing the iCloud Backup feature from the Apple ID menu.
Ensure iCloud Backup is enabled to ensure your data is regularly backed up. When your iPhone is charging and connected to Wi-Fi, but not in use, it will automatically back up. To ensure regular backups, connect your phone to a charger before bed each night.
How to backup your iPhone to a computer
For those who want to keep their data away from the cloud, they can save it all to their computer. All information will be stored in one file, which can be moved and stored as desired.
PC and Mac users can easily transfer music to their devices using iTunes (for PCs) or the Finder (for Macs). The steps are similar regardless of device.
Connect your iPhone to your computer using the charging cable. On your device, you’ll be prompted to trust the computer – select Trust and enter your password.
Select your iPhone in iTunes or Finder to access it: it will appear as a small icon in the upper left corner of iTunes and its name will be visible in the left sidebar of Finder.
Backing up data to a computer is easy: simply select the “Back Up” option and click “Back Up Now.”
Find backup files on a Mac
To access your iPhone backups, open a Finder window and press Command + Shift + G. Then copy and paste the following text: ~ / Library / Application Support / MobileSync / Backup/. This will take you to the folder where your backups are stored.
To locate your iPhone backups, connect your device to your Mac and open the Manage Backups menu. Right-click on the list of backups to select Show in Finder and find them.
Copy and move backups to an external hard drive
Back up your data by copying the entire folder to an external drive or cloud service. Apple recommends this to ensure the data remains uncorrupted. To do so, zip the folder into a ZIP file and drag it to your external hard drive or cloud service.
Final note
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