how to iphone backup
Every month there will be some new contacts added on our iPhone, so when time goes on, there will be hundreds or thousands of them. Then we will think about backup contacts on our iPhone, in case we lost or delete some of them by mistake. Without typing them on PC or writing them on our notes, is there any other ways can help us backup contacts on iPhone, Of course, there are many other ways can help us backup contacts on iPhone. Read below page and learn more. If it’s your first time to do backup on iTunes, you’ll need to install the iTunes firstly on your PC. Then launching your iTunes, connect your iPhone with PC, click iPhone image icon. Go to Files--Summary, click “Backup Now”, then confirm with “Backup”. Remark: then all our iPhone contacts will be backup on iTunes. Connect iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--iCloud, log in it with your Apple ID and password, then check if the option “Contact” is green or not. If it’s not green, turn it on to green color.

Then it’ll do auto backup of our iPhone contacts. Remark: the storage space of iCloud is limited, when it’s full, it will not help us sync iPhone data any more. Also we could selectively backup iPhone contacts on iCloud. If you want to selectively backup iPhone contacts, iRefone can help us with it. Refone is a professional iOS data recovery tool, which can backup and recover more than 16 kinds of iPhone files, like contacts, notes, reminders, calendars, voice memo ect. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup, and it allows us to preview them before backup and restoring. Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try. Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC, choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”. Step 2. Then we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “Contact” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software. Step 3. Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you can preview and choose the contacts you need to backup, tap on “Recover to PC”.

To prevent our critical iPhone 8/7/SE/6s/6/5s contacts from losing because of our careless operation, we would be suggested to back up our iOS contact list regularly. There are many ways to do backup of your iPhone contacts. Now I will show you two of these copy methods: One is to backup iPhone to computer with a professional iOS backup tool, the other is to do iCloud backup on iPhone. OS Backup & Restore is an powerful third-party software that has won the reliance of iOS users, especially iPhone and iPad. It is designed to help backup contacts, as well as other media files and text files for iDevice users who want to move their multiple data between iPhone, iPad, or iPod to PC. Now, I will show you how to back up your iPhone contacts with iOS Backup & Restore. You just need to download the program on the computer and read carefully what the below steps told you to. Launch iOS Backup & Restore on your computer. After that, please connect your iDevice to the computer using the USB cable. On the interface of the program, you can see there are two options displayed: Standard Backup and Encrypted Backup.

Just choose one of the modes to continue. If you wish to make the backup copy safer, you are recommended to choose "Encrypted Backup". Select "Contacts" among the data types and click on the "Next" button to move on. Wait for a moment and the contacts would be saved as a backup copy on your computer. Cloud account and then enable the "Contact" option. Then, scroll down and click "Backup" , and then "Back Up Now". All your contacts, as well as mail, calendar, and so on, as long as you've turned on in the previous step. If you want it to automatically do backup, you can turn on "iCloud Backup" and it will back up when it is connected to Wi-Fi. Note: To do iCloud backup on iPhone, you should know that the storage space limitation of iCloud is 5 GB, so you have to delete some useless data or backup file to free up the space. With iOS Backup & Restore, you can easily backup contacts with 3 steps. It can not only back up contacts from iPhone to computer, but also transfer other data type like messages, ebooks, photos, videos, music, etc. between iPhone 8/7/SE/6s/6/5s, iPad Pro/Air 2/mini 4, iPod touch 5, iTunes and PC/Mac. Just download and have it a try.

Whenever your iPhone is connected to iTunes on your computer, a backup of the phone's content is automatically collected and stored in a backup folder that can be retrieved at a later date. Open the iTunes application on your computer. Insert the iPhone's USB cable into the dock connector on the bottom of the iPhone, and firmly insert the opposite end of the cable into the computer's USB port. Right-click the iPhone's tab underneath the Devices section in the iTunes' source pane. For Macintosh computers, press the "Control" button on your keyboard and click the iPhone's tab. Click "Restore from Backup" on the shortcut menu, and click the Restore button on the iTunes' prompt window. According to the official Apple site, the restoring process removes all media and data from the iPhone, and replaces it with the information from the backup. Click the "OK" button on the iTunes' prompt window after the iPhone restore is complete, and wait for iTunes to display the iPhone Setup Wizard. Select "Restore from the backup of iPhone" in the iTunes window, and select the drop-down menu to select the backup date. Click the "Continue" button. The iTunes program will restore information from the backup to your iPhone, and will re-sync media from your iTunes library to the device.