taking a long time to backup iphone to Mac

In my recent experience over three different iPhones and 2 different MacBooks it has taken 48 hours to backup the ip[hone for the first time or cases where it has not been backed up for a while. These are 256G iPhones with about 120G worth of data and the backup is encrypted. Somehow I do not remember it taking this long to backup the data, has anyone else experienced this and/or what can I do to cut the backup time.

iPhone 11 Pro Max

Posted on Dec 10, 2020 1:58 PM

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Dec 14, 2020 7:48 PM in response to psarwal

Hi there psarwal,


We understand you have some questions about backing up your iPhone to a Mac, and we'd like to share some resources that may help.


Get started here: How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch


Depending on the computer and amount of data on the iPhone, it may take some time for the backup to complete. If you encounter an error, give these steps a try: If you can't back up your iOS or iPadOS device to a computer or restore it from a backup


Cheers!

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