Image credit: iPhone Backup Extractor / TechRadar How to back up an iPhone using third-party apps A MacBook’s SSD is very fast and very expensive per gigabyte, so is arguably wasted on backup data that will just sit there. It lets you switch from iCloud backup to local storage, and manually create a backup file.įor most people, this is only a good option if you have a large hard drive rather than the solid-state storage of a MacBook. In the Summary tab of the iPhone area of iTunes you should see a backup box. If this is the first time you hook the two up, you’ll have to tap through on the phone to ‘trust’ the computer. Connect your iPhone to your laptop or desktop using its charge cable and run iTunes. This downloads all the content from your phone to your hard drive, for a more solid-seeming backup than iCloud can provide. You can also back up your iPhone the old-fashioned way, using iTunes. If you’re sitting there in front of your laptop or phone screen wondering why everyone’s obsessed with 'the cloud' these days, there is another way. You’ll see the option to back up your photos through Google Photos the first time you run the app on your iPhone. It offers 15GB as standard rather than 5GB. However, Google is a little more generous than Apple. Just like iCloud, you’re limited by the storage allocated to your account. Google Photos doesn’t make you lower the quality of your photos. You don’t? Simply sign up at (opens in new tab). Most of you probably have one of these by now. Just download it from the App Store.Ī Google account is also required. You need two things to get started with Google Photos backup. But Google also puts the things through compression, to make them take up less space on its servers. Your photos are only actually downscaled in resolution terms if they are over 16 megapixels, so no problem for your iPhone. That it offers free, unlimited image storage at reduced quality is the main appeal.
You can use Google’s Android-wide photo backup service even if you have an iPhone. Image credit: TechRadar How to back up an iPhone to Google Photos
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