Finder Backups: Back up to iCloud backs up to this Mac

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Finder Backups: Back up to iCloud backs up to this Mac

When I try to back up my iPhone with Mac Finder, the Radio Button Backups: automatically switches to the option "Back up your most important data on your iPhone to iCloud".

When I switch this radio button manually to the second option, i.e. "Back up all of the data on your iPhone to this Mac", the radio button snaps back to the upper position (Backup to iCloud) right after the next sync of the iPhone with the Mac happens.

Any idea what the issue could be and how to stop the Backup option from switching back to iCloud by itself?

n.b. that the actual backup data is always going on the Mac, regardless of the radio button's setting. Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Nov 20, 2022 11:13 AM

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leroydouglas

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Nov 21, 2022 9:58 AM in response to Eprom1

Eprom1 wrote:

When I try to back up my iPhone with Mac Finder, the Radio Button Backups: automatically switches to the option "Back up your most important data on your iPhone to iCloud".

When I switch this radio button manually to the second option, i.e. "Back up all of the data on your iPhone to this Mac", the radio button snaps back to the upper position (Backup to iCloud) right after the next sync of the iPhone with the Mac happens.

Any idea what the issue could be and how to stop the Backup option from switching back to iCloud by itself?

n.b. that the actual backup data is always going on the Mac, regardless of the radio button's setting. Thanks in advance!

you can file a bug report /submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

—SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

make some changes and test...

I do not use the default minimum iCloud backup

This what I see when I plug in the iPhone— these settings do not change on their own

ref:

Backup methods for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Back up iPhone using iCloud - Apple Support

How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

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Eprom1 Author

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Dec 3, 2022 2:16 AM in response to leroydouglas

Thank You for this hint, I will test and come back to report what happened (in case this thread is then still open). Working around the many macOS Finder bugs is taking so much time...

What I can tell so far is that the upgrade to Ventura did not solve the issue.

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Eprom1 Author

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Dec 3, 2022 3:01 AM in response to Eprom1

Solution: had to turn on / off iCloud Backup on the iPhone.

Then the sync crashed perpetually with "unknown error (-50)".

After restarting the Mac, then the sync worked again, with the Radio Button staying in fixed position "Backup all data to this Mac".

However, the iPhone password must be entered now each time when a backup is done to establish a device trust. This wasn't the case before.

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Eprom1 Author

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Dec 4, 2022 11:38 AM in response to Eprom1

However, the iPhone password must be entered now each time when a backup is done to establish a device trust. -> it's a bug in iOS 16.1

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