How to Backup iPhone with/without iTunes

Have you ever been through this kind of situation, such as iOS upgrade, jailbreak, or  factory reset? If you did, then you’d better backup iPhone before making these operations to be freed from data loss. Wonder know how to backup iPhone? Read on the following two solutions.

Part1. How to Backup iPhone with iTunes

iTunes is a media player, media library, online radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It can not only help you organize music, movies and TV shows, but also enables you to back up your iPhone data. Here are the simple steps on how to backup iPhone to iTunes.

Step 1. Download and install iTunes on your PC then run it.
Step 2. Connect your iPhone to computer via a USB cable.
Step 3. Tap the small iPhone icon from the top left corner.
Step 4. Then click Back Up Now in the Summary section.
Step 5. Wait for iTunes create a complete iPhone backup.

Note: If you backup iPhone to iTunes, then you have no access to browse backups in the future. In this case, you can backup iPhone without iTunes instead.

Part2. How to Backup iPhone without iTunes

Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer is a simple but feature-rich application that can not only enable you backup iPhone contacts, call logs, SMS messages, calendar, photos, videos, music to computer, but also restore data from iTunes and local backups with no risk of loss or leaks. Meanwhile, it supports numerous types of iOS devices such as iPhone 8/7/6 S Plus, iPhone 5 S, iPhone SE, iPad, iPod Touch etc. Have no idea of how to backup iPhone to computer? Just refer to the steps given below.

Step1. On your computer, launch Mobile Transfer and select Backup Your Phone.
Step2. Connect iPhone to PC via USB cable and mark file types you’d like to backup.
Step3. Click Start Copy to wait for backing up iPhone to computer until completed.

Note: Please click Trust on your iPhone if a pop-up box appearing and make sure your iPhone is connected to PC during the process of backing up.

Learn more about Mobile Transfer:

Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer is a multifunctional software, except for backing up iPhone to computer, you can also restore backup sessions via three steps: get into Restore data channel > connect iPhone to PC > select backups > tap Start Copy. Besides, if you are an Android user and wonder know how to backup Android, then you can refer to How to Transfer and Backup Contacts on Android to Gmail/PC.