How to extract JUST photos from an iTunes phone backup?

very unhelpful.

Where are iTunes backups stored on your computer

The folder where your backup data is stored depends on the computer's operating system. Make sure the backup folder is included in your data-backup routine. iTunes places the backup files in the following places:

• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
  The "~" represents your Home folder. If you don't see Library in your home folder, hold Option and click the Go menu.
• Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
  To quickly access the Application Data folder, click Start, and choose Run. Type %appdata% and click OK.
• Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
  To quickly access the AppData folder, click Start. In the search bar, type %appdata% and press Return.

Great solution. 🙂.

"I usually download via cnet.com"

MiKing, if I were you, I wouldn't download from sites like cnet.com or Softonics. You can read the reviews (if they are honest, which I do not know), but you should download from the developer site. Do not click the link, but type the address yourself. In a lot of threads is explained that the above mentioned sites are not to be trusted, they build in trackers and such. Also read about it in TheSafeMac.com.

Lex

His replies were accurate, truthful, and informative. He explained that there is no inherent method via Apple to get just 'part' of an iTunes backup. He also showed where the backups are stored on a computer.

Just because you don't like the truthfulness of an answer, doesn't make it 'unhelpful'.

Restoring a backup is all or nothing.

Pictures are designed to be regularly copied off the device to a computer for safe-keeping as would be done with any digital camera.

Use an app called iBackupViewer.

The backup is not in iTunes, it is on the computer.

These are Apple forums.

Contact the developer of the referenced app for assistance using their software. It's not an Apple product.

@Krishna

If you have the iTunes computer you download iBackupviewer to it, install it, and then it will find the backups in iTunes. Nothing else to do.

also unhelpful.

worked for me. very easy. thank you.

FYI I usually download via cnet.com so I can read the reviews and make sure it's not scam software first.