Backing up iphone to external hard drive

We spend too much money on our apple devices to be handicapped by apple making it extremely difficult to backup iphones to external hard drives. I know they want people to use and pay for icloud but this isn't the way to do it

Posted on Oct 27, 2024 12:28 PM

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Posted on Oct 27, 2024 12:42 PM

You cannot directly backup an iPhone to an external hard drive, but you CAN backup your iPhone to your computer using iTunes (Windows) or Finder (Mac), then transferring the backup to an external hard drive.


If that isn't good enough for you, complaining about how Apple does things here is pointless. This is a user to user only forum, not Apple Support. Feel to share your displeasure with Apple here --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple


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Oct 27, 2024 12:42 PM in response to jrashada

You cannot directly backup an iPhone to an external hard drive, but you CAN backup your iPhone to your computer using iTunes (Windows) or Finder (Mac), then transferring the backup to an external hard drive.


If that isn't good enough for you, complaining about how Apple does things here is pointless. This is a user to user only forum, not Apple Support. Feel to share your displeasure with Apple here --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple


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