How to backup iphone on mac with itunes. Click trust then unlock your phone or tablet and. Connect your iphone to your mac running macos 1015 catalina or later using a lightning cable. You should see your iphone or ipad appear in the sidebar of itunes on your mac.
After your phone is connected to itunes click the little phone icon on the toolbar and locate the backups section under summary. Its on the left panel. To backup iphone on macos catatina select the second option under backups which is back up all of the data on your iphone to this mac if you want to encrypt the backup file select the encrypt local backups option in the same section.
With the macos catalina update finder is where you go on your mac to manage and sync content on your iphone ipad and ipod touch. How to backup your iphone using finder on macos catalina. Step 3 click on the phone icon once itunes detect your iphone.
Connect your device to a wi fi network. Make sure your iphone is unlocked when you plug it in. In the finder under the general tab click manage backups to see a list of your backups.
Here tap the. Stay connected to your wi fi network until the process completes. On a mac with macos mojave 1014 or earlier or on a pc open itunes.
If this is the first time youre backing up your iphone with your mac youll see a popup on your iphone asking if you trust this mac. Step 2 connect iphone to computer with a cable and wait for a while. Connect your iphone to the computer.
Remember this backup is stored locally on your pc or mac. On a mac with macos catalina 1015 or later open the finder. Go to settings your name and tap icloud.
Step 5 a backup section will show. Step 1 to begin with launch an update version of itunes on your computer. Click the restore backup button to restore an itunes backup from your computer to your phone.
First connect your iphone to your mac using the usb ausb c to lightning cable. Step 4 click on the summary tab. Apple designed syncing with finder to be similar to syncing with itunes.
You can also change your password if you want.