The mobile phone is the tool you use the most every day, it is your companion in your free time and at work and is full of important contents. Photos, documents, messages, everything inside your mobile phone is precious and you can’t afford to lose it; for this reason it is important to make periodic backups. If you are using an iPhone and you cannot make backups with iCloud then you will need to Backup Iphone with ITunes. The procedure is quite simple and in this guide, without getting too lost in unnecessary details, I will explain it step by step in order to allow you to secure your data.
Iphone backup with ITunes
Iphone backup with ITunes first requires a computer with iTunes installed; if you have a Mac then you will find iTunes pre-installed and you will not have to do anything but if you are using Windows and you still do not have iTunes you will have to download it from the Microsoft Store site and install. Once downloaded and installed, you will need to log in to iTunes with the Apple ID credentials (the ones you normally use on your iphone as well). At this point, you are ready to backup with iTunes.
Now you have to take your iphone and connect it to the PC via the USB port using the cable you normally use to charge your iphone. Once the iPhone is connected to the computer, open the iTunes application; the first time you connect the iphone to the computer you will receive a message requesting the device code displayed on the iphone, enter it to continue. At this point, press the button on your iphone device at the top if it is not automatically recognized
Then press on the Summary text in the left pane and then, from the right pane, press on the word Back up now and wait for the operation to complete (it may take several minutes).
The first Iphone Backup with ITunes could take a lot of time and space to complete but since the backups with iTunes are incremental the following ones will be very fast and will take up very little space.
If you want to encrypt the backups (make it password protected so that only you can use it) before making the backup, press the key marked Local backup encryption and enter the password for the backup; then click on Set password ; obviously if you have chosen the backup encryption if you forget the password you will not be able to recover the backup.
You can see all the Iphone Backups on ITunes made by selecting the iTunes Edit menu and then the Preferences submenu and from the window that will open by clicking on Devices ; in the list of backups those with a padlock symbol are those protected by passwords (encrypted).
Find more information on Iphone Backup on ITunes directly on the Apple support pages .
So, in conclusion, to keep the photos and all the data of your mobile safe, you can run Iphone Backup on ITunes. You should make backups with iTunes quite frequently; the more often they are performed, the faster they will be to complete. If you change iPhone or in any case you want to restore a backup you will only have to connect your iPhone to the PC and from iTunes press on Restore backup.
