How to back-up notes and photos to computer?

This tells you what is included in the backup and where the backup is located.

Create and delete iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch backups in iTunes - Apple Support

Information is the backup is not accessible without a special program.

http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/

How do you know iCloud is not backing up anything? Yu can't view the backup. You can go to Settings>iClouod>Storage and backup and see when the latest backup was made

Only photos taken by or saved to the iPod are in thhe backup. Photos synced to the iPod are not.

Are you using a Mac or PC with iTunes?

On OS X the notes syncing to the Notes.app is controlled by the setting in 'System Preferences > iCloud'. Is Notes syncing enabled there?

Check 'Settings app > iCloud' on iOS to be sure it is also enabled.

I don't think notes are synced via iTunes I believe you need to use iCloud for syncing, hence the need to double check both devices have it enabled.

The iTunes backups will contain the notes, but you need a tool to read & extract them as Illaass mentioned. There are many others available.

Abi94 wrote:

Hi Drew!

Thanks for your reply.

I'm using iTunes with the PC - Windows 7 to be precise.

It's just a worry when restoring your iPod, I don't want to lose all my photos and notes, but then again I find it frustrating how iTunes updates cause mine to crash on occasion taking all my music with it.

When I sign in to iCloud (just created the account the other day) I have no notes or photos on my account?

Sync is different to backup, but iTunes does them both at the same time.

You can backup the device to iCloud but still have no notes visible in iCloud.

Personally I would backup to iCloud, then connect to iTunes & backup to iTunes. In iTunes preferences select devices & right click to create an 'archive' of the backup. That will mean that backup is preserved when you next backup, otherwise the old backup is overwritten on next iTunes sync. You can also reveal the backup via a right click, however it is pointless since the files are not easily readable.

Having an iCloud & iTunes backup should help if the device loses it's files for whatever reason. NOTE: you can only use one backup type, but iCloud backups should remain on the server when you swap to iTunes backups.

This may be different on Windows, so you will need to follow the info in the links IIaass posted.

iTunes and iCloud are contributed to backing up iPhone data including notes and photos. At this way, I want to share iCloud backup method:

Tap "Settings > iCloud > Storage >Manage Storage > Back Up Now" on your iPhone to make backup manually.

(or you can move "Settings > iCloud > Back Up Now" to make your iPhone back up automatically)

As you can see, the processing bar would tell you how much data of your iPhone has been backed up.

Moreover, if you want to back up photos on iPhone only, you can go to "Settings > iCloud > iCloud Photo Library" to upload your photos on iCloud.

You must pay attention to the limitation of iCloud backup which only allows 5GB storage.