How To Backup Iphone On External Hard Drive?

 

How To Backup Iphone On External Hard Drive?

INITIAL CONNECTIONS OR SETUP:

  1. Turn on your Mac computer.

  2. Use a lightning cable to connect the computer and your iPhone.

  3. If you haven’t plugged them before, you will get a notification.

  4. Click on trust your iPhone on your Mac.

  5. Similarly, tap on trust your Mac on the iPhone.

  6. Make sure that you have an external hard drive plugged in.


STEPS TO BACKUP IPHONE ON EXTERNAL DRIVE:

  • Open up the Finder window on your Mac.

  • Go to the General tab, then click on Manage Backups.

  • Select a specific device from the list, hold down the control key, and click on the device.

  • From the list of available options, choose Show in Finder.

  • Now open your external hard drive.

  • Go to the device backup folder. You will find the name of the folder as “Backup.”

  • Click and drag it to your external hard drive.

  • If prompted, type in your admin password to authenticate that it's you who is doing all the backup actions.

  • From the external hard drive, rename the iOS backup folder as ios_backup.

  • You may need to enter the admin password once again to make the changes.

  • Rename the old backup folder as old_backup to avoid confusion.

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