By Nick / Last Updated February 3, 2020

Choose an iPhone Backup Software

In the information era, our life is closely associated with data, which record our life and work. We have many files like pictures, videos, messages, and emails, etc. in our mobile phones.

You might think your life or work is not related to information technology so that you don’t have to worry about that data disaster would happen to you, but the truth is that data has been part of our life. For example, if you lost your phone while the data haven’t been backed up, the pictures and messages might be gone forever, because it’s hard for you to retrieve your memory without them. What’s worse, if there were crucial contacts, your business could be hard. Consequently, backing up your iPhone is vitally important.

#1 AOMEI MBackupper| The best iPhone backup software

AOMEI MBackupper could be the best iPhone backup software for backing up photos, videos, messages, contacts, and music. You can easily choose which kind of files you would like to back up and restore in the user-friendly interface.

Easily Backup: You could see all the features clearly on the interface and even complete the task without guidance.

Quickly Restore: The procedure of restoration is simple, too. Select the backup file, click on Restore and your files would be fast transferred to your device without covering any data.

Preview Files: Whenever you back up or restore your phone, you could preview and select the files you need.

Flexible Selection: For example, when you back up the photos, you could select just some of them rather than the entire folder and you can also do this when restoring your phone. It also allows you to restore files to another device including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Widely Compatible: It supports most iPhone models from iPhone 4 to the latest iPhone 11 and would be perfectly compatible with the latest iOS 13.

Use AOMEI MBackupper to easily backup and restore your iPhone

It just requires simple operation for backup and restoration. You could follow the instruction below to easily complete the task.


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Step 1. Download and install mBackupper. Connect iPhone to computer with USB cable and tap "Trust" on it.

Step 2. Click Custom Backup. Click an icon to select the files you want and click OK to return.

select iPhone files

Step 3. Click Start Backup and everything that you want would be save in backup copy to your computer.

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#2 iTunes| Free official tool to backup iPhone to PC

iTunes is an official iPhone backup software for iOS product which can help you back up your iPhone to computer. It is very powerful for comprehensive features, but users often complain the interface is too complicated and too many sections it hard to find the feature they want, while you can still back up your iPhone easily with this software.

The merit of iTunes is that you can back up almost everything in your device except some files like messages and pictures having already uploaded to iCloud, while its deficiency is that it provides no other option so that it takes long time to back your device and the backup file takes much storage.

How to use iTunes to back up your iPhone is as follows,

1. Download iTunes.

2. Plug your iPhone into your computer.

3. Tap Trust This Computer when your iPhone is detected.

4. Click the phone-shape icon in the upper left of iTunes.

5. Click the blue-button Back Up Now.

backup iPhone with iTunes

#3 iCloud| Official tool to backup iPhone to the cloud

iCloud is another official software of Apple device which can help you store your files to the cloud to optimize the storage of your iPhone. Every ID would be allocated with 5GB free storage. If you want to enlarge your iCloud, it’s $0.99 for another 50GB plan per month, $2.99 for 200GB and $9.99 for 2TB.

You can view those files on another device with iCloud.

1. Upgrade your iPhone to the latest version of iOS

2. Go to Settings and sign in with your Apple ID.

3. Go to Settings, tap your name and you can see iCloud.

4. Switch on the apps you’d like to back up.

backup iPhone with iCloud

#4 Google Drive| Cloud tool with high capacity

You might find that 5GB of iCloud is not enough and you don’t want to buy extra storage every month. Google Drive can be another choice. It gives you 15GB free storage. You can upload almost every kind of files to Google Drive but need to notice that it shares the 15GB storage with Gmail account and Google Photo. The extra storage is also provided with a nice price compared to iCloud.

The following instructions are the steps of using Google Drive.

1. Download Google Drive in App Store;

2. Tap the icon of plus to add files;

3. Tap Upload;

4. Find the files you’d like to upload.

Google Drive

Conclusion

There are a lot of iPhone backup software on the Internet. This article introduces 4 useful and simple ones of them. You can use AOMEI MBackupper and iTunes to back up your photos to PC, or use iCloud and Google Drive to store files to the cloud.