This way, you can create an ample amount of backups to choose from when the time comes to restore. Tunes, on the contrary, overwrites previous backups. 5. Select the location where you’d like to save the backup by clicking “Change”. Unlike iTunes, you can choose to backup wherever you want.
You can even save the iPhone backup on a USB stick. 7. Let CopyTrans Shelbee complete the backup. You successfully backed up your iPhone. The backup is saved in an analogous way to the way iTunes backups on your PC are saved. In addition, the backup folder contains your iPhone apps. Restoring iPhone with CopyTrans Shelbee is equally easy. If you saved the backup to an external drive or a USB stick, you can even restore it from another PC! 4. Click “Start” to begin the restore operation.
Once the dot and the check are selected, hit the Back Up Now button. You may or may not see a prompt that asks if you want to back up all of your downloaded content to your iTunes library — if so, choose yes and back it all up. At that point, the backup process could take minutes or an hour.
Once that’s done, and Latest Backup shows the current date (and a recent time), do it again. If you didn’t see the downloaded content prompt before, you’ll see it now, and should say yes. This double backup process guarantees that everything on your old iPhone is sitting on your computer, waiting for your new device to arrive.
Once your old iPhone has been backed up as discussed above, you’re ready to either wipe it clean for resale or keep using it until your new phone arrives. Erase All Content and Settings. This will give you the option to turn off Activation Lock, Apple’s security feature that links your iPhone to your iCloud account (and makes it locatable via Find My iPhone). Once you’ve disabled Activation Lock and erased your phone, it’s ready to resell, but there may still be traces of it in your iTunes and iCloud accounts.
I’ve put together a comprehensive guide to completely removing the iPhone from your Apple accounts here. This is the easiest part of the process. Your new iPhone will arrive blank and ready for the old iPhone backup to be installed. Without even touching the iPhone’s screen, you can plug it directly into your computer, then load iTunes, and be presented with a Welcome to Your New iPhone screen. Choose “restore from this backup,” select your latest backup file, and let iTunes work its magic.
After placing your personal data and settings on the iPhone, iTunes will restart it and then begin to restore all of your apps and media files one by one. No matter how long this one-time sync takes, the process will be faster than with iCloud. Relatively few things will need to be set up directly on the iPhone if you chose an encrypted backup. Check out more of my editorials, How-To guides, and reviews for 9to5Mac here! I’ve covered a lot of different topics of interest to Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, and Apple Watch users. If you haven’t yet figured out a trade-in strategy for your old device, I’ve recently discussed how to get the best iPhone trade-in price to help buy an iPhone 6s here.
Touch the icon Settings , then tap iCloud . Tap on Backup , then move the slider until iCloud Backup on or green (if it is not already). Finally, tap Back Up Now . Depending on how much time has passed since the last time you updated, it will take a few seconds or longer.
Manage Storage , then select your iPhone. There should see all the details of support including date and size. And that’s it. Now you can go and install iOS 10 with full confidence that they will not lose your valuable information on your phone. 1. Make sure that you’re using the latest version of iTunes.
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