How to Backup iPhone - 3 Effective Ways

Your iOS device such as iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch houses a lot of important data. But are you sure that the data on your iPhone is safe? Have you ever thought that they might be gone easily? Actually, they can be missing sometimes even without your awareness. Sometimes you could delete them on your iPhone, but sometimes they can be lost due to a variety of reasons: iOS update failure, jailbreak failure, incomplete restoring, factory reset, virus attack and so on. It is high time you backed up your iPhone in case of any accident. And below I will show you how to backup iPhone in 3 different ways.

How to Backup iPhone to PC via iPhone Data Transfer

Compared with cloud-based platform, backing up your iDevice to the local computer has a lot of advantages. On one hand, you don't need to worry about the network condition that cloud-based method relies a lot. On the other hand, you don't need to worry about the limitation of storage space (iCloud offers each Apple ID only 5 free GB sotrage). And iPhone Data Transfer, a powerful iOS data transfer app, enables you to backup iPhone to PC. You are able to backup all data types and you can also have the flexibility to backup data selectively instead of making a full backup.


And below is how to backup iPhone to PC via iPhone Data Transfer:

1 First of all, you will need to download and install iPhone Data Transfer on your computer, and start the app.

2 Connect your iPhone with the computer and the program should detect your iPhone.


3 Browse and select data type that you want to backup in iPhone Data Transfer.


4 Click "To Folder" and then choose a destination folder and click "Start" to backup iPhone to PC.

How to Backup iPhone via iTunes

iTunes may be best known as Apple's music playing program, but the application can do much more in terms of helping you manage your mobile devices.


1 Open iTunes and connect your iPhone to the PC.

2 Input your device passcode if asked, follow the onscreen steps.

3 Select your iPhone when it appears in iTunes.

4 After the process ends, you can see if your backup finished successfully in iTunes Preferences > Devices. (If you're using iTunes for Windows, choose Edit > Preferences > Devices from the menu bar at the top of the iTunes window.) You should see the name of your device with the date and time that iTunes created the backup. If you encrypted your backup, you should also see beside the name of your device.

How to Backup iPhone via iCloud

The benefit of backing up using iCloud is that it's largely automated and can happen wirelessly. But just as mentioned above, iCloud offers only gives 5GB space for free for each user. If you need more space, you will need to pay for it.


1 Connect your device to a Wi-Fi network.

2 Go to Settings > [your name], and tap iCloud.

3 Tap iCloud Backup. If you're using iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap Backup. Make sure that iCloud Backup is turned on.

4 Tap Back Up Now. Make sure your iPhone stay connected to Wi-Fi network before the process completes.

5 Wait until the backup is completed: Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > iCloud Storage > Manage Storage, then select your device. If you’re using iOS 10.2 or earlier, go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage, then select your device. The backup should appear in the details with the time and backup size.


Above 3 solutions should solve your problem on how to backup iPhone. You can choose a way according to your need.