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Your iPhone (and iPad) automatically back up to iCloud by default, but local iTunes backups are all the same useful. You should create an iTunes backup when you're switching to a new iPhone or installing iOS beta software on your current phone.

Update: Modernistic versions of macOS no longer accept iTunes, just the procedure is similar—and iTunes however works if you're using a Windows PC. Here's how to back up your iPhone or iPad on a Mac running macOS Catalina or newer.

Local iTunes backups are more consummate and faster to restore than iCloud backups. iCloud backups are nevertheless useful because they happen wirelessly and so they'll e'er exist up-to-engagement, but iTunes backups are platonic for a full restore functioning.

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How to Create an iTunes Backup

Launch iTunes to get started. If y'all have a Windows PC, you lot'll demand to download iTunes from either the Microsoft Store or from Apple'south website. if yous have a Mac, iTunes is already installed. We used the Microsoft Store version for this process, and it worked perfectly.

Connect your iPhone to your PC or Mac using the included Lightning-to-USB cable. This is the same cable you use to accuse your phone. This same process works for iPads and iPod touches, too.

After connecting your iPhone, click the "Continue" push in iTunes to allow access to your iPhone on your computer.

Unlock your iPhone and you'll run across a "Trust This Computer" prompt. Tap the "Trust" push, and then enter your Pin. This gives your computer admission to your iPhone's information.

If yous've already synced your iPhone or iPad with iTunes, you won't meet these prompts and yous tin but go along.

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After yous've immune access to iTunes, you'll see a small-scale telephone icon on the toolbar, most the meridian left corner of the window. Click it.

iTunes should automatically focus the "Summary" pane in the left sidebar. Scroll downward and expect for the "Backups" section hither.

Earlier continuing, you should ensure your iPhone backups are encrypted. This makes sure they're password-protected so someone will need the password you provide to admission them and the data they incorporate. Encrypted backups can also contain account passwords, Apple Health data, and HomeKit information. Unencrypted backups won't contain all the information.

Enable the "Encrypt iPhone backup" checkbox under Backups to actuate encrypted backups.

Provide a password when prompted. Make sure you call up this countersign. If you lot forget information technology, yous won't exist able to restore whatever iTunes backups encrypted with the password.

If you lot previously set a password and forgot information technology, yous can click the "Change Password" push here to prepare a new one that iTunes volition use for newly created backups. Just you can't restore any of your old backups without the password you used to create them.

iTunes automatically begins creating a fill-in after you provide a password. Wait for the procedure to finish before disconnecting your phone. It should accept only a few minutes.

Await under "Latest backups" on this pane and you'll see when the about recent backups accept taken place. Any backup that says information technology's taken place "to this computer" is an iTunes fill-in on your PC or Mac.

To create new iTunes backups in the future, just click the "Back Up Now" button while your iPhone is connected to your calculator via its cablevision.

iTunes will create a backup and show you the progress in the condition display area at the top of the window.

You tin and should leave "iCloud" selected every bit your default fill-in option under the "Automatically Back up" section. You can nevertheless back up to iTunes by clicking the "Support Now" push yourself.

How to Restore an iTunes Backup

You must disable Find My iPhone before restoring a fill-in. If you have an iPad, you'll need to disable Find My iPad instead.

To do so, head to Settings on your iPhone, so tap your proper noun at the summit of the settings screen. From here, tap iCloud > Find My iPhone. Tap the "Find My iPhone" slider, and then enter your Apple tree ID password to turn it off.

To restore an iTunes backup, connect your iPhone to your computer using its included cable and launch iTunes. Tap the "Trust" push button on your iPhone to trust your computer if it's not already trusted.

After your phone is continued to iTunes, click the little phone icon on the toolbar, and locate the Backups section under Summary. Click the "Restore Backup" button to restore an iTunes backup from your figurer to your phone.

Remember, this fill-in is stored locally on your PC or Mac. You lot must restore the backup on the aforementioned computer yous created information technology.

iTunes will prompt you lot to cull which fill-in y'all want to restore. By default, information technology selects the near recent backup. Older backups accept date information in their names so you know which is which.

Click "Restore" to restore the backup to your telephone. Don't disconnect your phone from your figurer until the restore procedure completes.

How to View Your iTunes Backups

Y'all can view the backups saved in iTunes past clicking Edit > Preferences on a PC or iTunes > Preferences on a Mac.

Click the "Devices" icon in the Preferences window. You'll meet a list of backups stored locally, and you can delete old backups from here if you want to free upward space.

You can notice these backups stored on your PC or Mac's drive if yous want to back them up or move them to a new PC.

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You can restore the backup on either your current phone or a new one. For example, if you're getting a new iPhone, you tin restore your one-time phone's to the new iPhone—even if it'south a newer model.