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itunes could not backup the iphone because an error occurred while reading from or writing to the iphone

My iPhone 6 cant backup to the computer with itunes. It keep said "itunes could not backup the iphone because an error occurred while reading from or writing to the iphone". How do I fix this? Thank you.

Posted on Sep 19, 2017 10:04 PM

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Posted on Oct 3, 2017 7:00 PM

I had this issue and I found that the restore process took almost 11GB from my hard drive... (I guess this may change depending the size of your backup) leaving me out of space and giving me that error... I cleared some space before restoring my iphone and no errors came up... Hope this helps

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itunes could not backup the iphone because an error occurred while reading from or writing to the iphone

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