4 Ways on How to Backup iPhone

In order to keep your data on your iPhone for longer time, then backing up your iPhone would be an important part while handling with your iPhone. Generally speaking, you can turn asides to iTunes, iCloud, and other third-party software to back up your iPhone data directly. Alternatively, if you have a good command of Google Drive, it would do you a great favor for the backup of iPhone as well as Android devices. Well, all data would first be transferred to computer for future references, and in this blog, more details related to each solution would be provided. One more thing you should keep in mind is that release more space on your computer so as to store these iPhone properly and safely.

Method 1: How to Backup iPhone to Computer with iTunes?

When we talk about how to transfer the data on your iPhone to your computer, you may would not forget iTunes. iTunes is the only official default media player and media library application provided by Apple. You can use this software to manage the libraries of your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. You are able to transfer all kinds of data on your iPhone to computer with iTunes, and you don't need much time to accomplish the transfer. Based on some statistics, more than half of iPhone users would adopt iTunes as the firm tool to back up iPhone data. The following steps would show you the details which are quite clear and easy to handle with.

Step 1. Download and install iTunes on your computer and you had better update it to be the latest version.

Step 2. Open iTunes and connect your iPhone to your computer. 

Step 3. Enter the main interface and click File >> Devices >> Backup or simply click the Back Up Now button from the Summary page to start backing up the iPhone to your computer. 

Adopting this method would easily back up all the data on your iPhone, including photos, videos, text messages, app data and so on. Since iTunes is a free tool for iPhone users, you can manually carry out these steps from time to time which would only take a few minutes for each backup. By the way, based on your iPhone’s data quantity, you had better release enough space on your hard drive on your local computer.

Method 2: How to Backup iPhone to Computer Without iTunes? 

Even though iTunes is a free program for iPhone users to manage data, it is limited on some important aspects. Just as mentioned above, if you simply follow the steps above, you would back up all the data on your iPhone for each time. While, sometimes you may prefer to just back up some important data on your computer, such as photos and videos, iTunes would not meet your general requirements. As the alternative tool, Leawo iTransfer is a professional iOS data management tool. It can complete the backup task in an easy and accurate way. As mentioned, this iPhone transfer software enables users to transfer various kinds of files, including apps, music, movies, TV shows, eBooks, ringtones, photos, Camera Roll, contacts, text messages, bookmarks, and notes. With this iPhone data transfer software, you are able to fully handle your iPhone without messing up the data inside. The following guidance will show you use this iPhone data transfer software to transfer data from iPhone to computer, and you can free download the software to have a try.

Step 1. Download and install Leawo iTransfer on your computer.

Step 2. Run Leawo iTransfer and connect iPhone to computer with USB cable. The software will recognize your iPhone.

Step 3. Click the name of iPhone and choose the preferred data in the left sidebar. The iPhone data will display at the right side.

Step 4. Check the square checkbox and click the transfer button at the right bottom. Or check the checkbox and right-click a selected file, then choose Transfer to > My Computer. Then, wait for the next step to transfer these files.

Step 5. After selecting files to transfer, you’ll see a pop-up dialog. Check Save to Folder and click Change to choose a folder on computer to save the files. Then click Transfer Now to start transferring music from iPhone to computer. Just wait in patience, the music files would be transferred from iPhone to computer within several minutes.

Furthermore, you can refer to transfer data from computer to iPhone with Leawo iTransfer for more information.

Method 3: How to Backup iPhone to iCloud?

iCloud is a useful tool to back up mails, contacts, photos, notes, etc. from iPhone as long as you toggle on iCloud backup. If you can manage iCloud backup properly, then this tool would be quite useful to transfer data on your iPhone to computer. For the detailed step, now let's learn on how to back up iPhone to iCloud.

Step 1. Make sure you have synced iPhone photos to iCloud on your iPhone.

Step 2. Connect iPhone to your computer.

Step 3. Enter iCloud.com and log in with your Apple ID.

Step 4. Click your preferred files and these data will be synced automatically to your computer.

Step 5. Select the file folder that you need to transfer to computer. Tap on "Download Selected Item" at top right to download these files. In this way, you can choose a folder on your local computer as the destination folder to download iPhone data.

Method 4: How to Backup iPhone to Cloud Services?

Asides from iCloud, the default iPhone could service, users can also refer to some other powerful cloud services to back up iPhone in an efficient way. Google Drive is an online storage service provided by Google. Google Drive can provide you with 5G space for free. It provides cloud secure storage, supports access from any location: including PC, MAC, iPhone, iPad, Android and other devices. Google Drive allows you to store all your files in the same place on your iPhone, and you can access the files anytime and anywhere and share them with others; by the way, you can also use the Google Drive application to access your photos, documents, videos, and files stored on Google Drive. Here are the detailed steps on how to back up iPhone to Google Drive. 

Step 1. Download and install Google Drive on your iPhone.

Step 2. Open Google Drive and on the main screen, click on the gear icon for settings at the top.

Step 3. Tap on the Start Backup to start backing up the iPhone to Google Drive.

Once you have backed up all the iPhone data to the Google Drive, then you can get access to the data on the Google Drive by logging in the Google account. While, Google Drive is quite limited on the capacity, then you may have to choose some of your preferred files to be transferred to this cloud service.

Bonus: How to Restore iPhone from Backup?

The reasons why you had better back up your iPhone are to avoid some unfriendly losses of the data on your iPhone. Once you have followed the above solutions to back up your iPhone to computer already, then you can easily restore your iPhone as you like. Here, in addition, you can restore iPhone without iTunes or iClouds. Instead, Leawo iOS Data Recovery would be your another excellent choice to restore your iPhone data without any losses. Leawo iOS Data Recovery can work on Windows and Mac, which enables you to retrieve WhatsApp data from iPhone with or without backup. With just a few steps, this software can help you to recover deleted WhatsApp messages and chat history perfectly. Leawo iOS Data Recovery for Mac stands out for its great design and powerful functions. It allows you to preview and select the files that you want to recover, which can work easily to scan and search for files and data with very accurate results. It is compatible with all iOS devices and all versions of iOS. With Leawo iOS Data Recovery, all kinds of iPhone app data could be recovered, including WhatsApp chat history without losses. What’s more, this program can recover multiple deleted data directly from iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, back up 14 kinds of data on iOS devices to computer as well as recovering data lost due to jailbreak, iOS upgrade, deletion, etc. Here are the detailed steps on how to restore iPhone with Leawo iOS Data Recovery.

Step 1. Download and install iOS Data Recovery on your computer.

Step 2. Run Leawo iOS Data Recovery on computer and then use a proper USB cable to connect iPhone with your computer. This software will detect your iOS device automatically. After that, you need to pick up "Recover from iOS Device" to click on.

Step 3. When you view all categories of iPhone in the left sidebar of the software screen, you need to check the file folders you prefer. Afterwards, you need to click on the "Recover" button at the rightmost corner of the interface.

Step 4. In the pop-up dialogue, you need to click on "Open" button and then browse your computer to choose a proper location to save the exported files. After you set the target directory well, you can tap on the button of "Go" to start the process to recover files. In a few seconds, the data will be available in the folder.