How To Backup IPhone To A Mac Or PC

Your iPhone contains incredibly important data. Data such as personal messages, emails and photos. In many ways this is priceless content, which is why it’s so important to back it up on a regular basis. An added bonus of backing up data is that you can instantly transfer it to a new iPhone when you eventually upgrade. There are two ways to backup your iPhone: the first is to save its data to a computer; the second is to back it up to iCloud over a WiFi connection. This tutorial focuses on the former. Read on to discover how easy it is to backup your iPad to a computer. The first step is the simplest; just plug your iPhone into a Mac or PC using the dock cable supplied within the box. Your iPhone will appear towards the top of the screen in iTunes, or if you have the Sidebar enabled, in the left-hand panel.

Click on it and you’ll see an overview of the device. On the Summary window you can choose to backup iPhone to either iCloud or your Computer. Select Computer, then click the Sync button in the bottom right corner of iTunes. Your preferences have now been saved and the iPhone will begin backing up its data to the computer. Tick the Sync with this iPhone over Wifi button. This will enable it to wirelessly sync to your Mac or PC whenever it’s plugged into a power source and connected to the same WiFi network. This is a great way to automatically backup your iPhone each night while you sleep. If you upgrade to a new iPhone, just plug it into your computer and iTunes will ask if you’d like to restore your old backup to the new device. Click yes to transfer every message, email, note, photo, web bookmark, apps and more to the new iPhone. Don’t worry if the progress bar stalls or takes too long - there might be a lot of data to transfer.

Once your iPhone is connected with TouchCopy, all your iPhone or iPad apps that have data inside will appear on the left panel of TouchCopy. Next, you need to click on Photos from that left panel; and this will take some time. This will show you everything you have in Photos app on your iPhone or iPad. Select the folder you want to transfer photos from. You can select any number of photos from the folder. After selecting photos, click on ‘Copy Photos’ tab above. Mac users can need to click on ‘Copy to Mac‘ and just follow the screen steps. A dialog box opens to Browse for Folder. If you are using Windows computer, you need to ‘Make New Folder’. Create a new folder and give it a suitable name; next, hit Enter button on your computer keyboard. Then click on OK button on the dialog box. This will start the process of transferring photos from iPhone/iPad to your computer.

Once the process is complete, another dialog box opens up, asking you to ‘Click here to open the save folder’. You can either open the folder from this dialog box or simply go to the desktop, where you can see the folder you have created. Exporting Contacts from your iOS device to your computer is extremely easy with TouchCopy. Note that your Contacts will be exported as vCard, which you can email anywhere. If you are moving from iPhone to Android phone, this will be the easiest method to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android phone. Another noteworthy point is that if you are windows PC user you need to enter your Apple ID password on TouchCopy before you can actually move Contacts. Open the TouchCopy software and Click on Contacts from left panel. If you are windows user you need to type in your Apple ID password and click on Continue button.

Mac user won’t receive this step. The software will check your password, and after sometime, it will load your contacts. You can see all your iPhone/iPad contacts on this software. From here, you will be able to soft by first name and last name; you can copy contacts to Outlook and copy contacts to Windows Contacts. A to transfer all contacts from your iPhone to computer. After selecting the contacts, click on ‘Copy as vCard’ button from the above menu. Mac user can click on ‘Copy to Mac‘ if they need .VCF File else you can directly click on ‘Copy to Address Book‘ to store your contacts in Mac Contacts App. Next, you can follow on screen steps. A dialog box will appear on screen; create a new folder by clicking on ‘Make New Folder’ button. Give a name to this folder and then click on OK button. All your contacts will be transferred to your computer as .vcf extension.