How to Transfer iPhone Backup to New Computer with iTunes 2019

How to Transfer iPhone Backup to New Computer with iTunes

One of the more obvious methods for those looking to transfer iPhone backups from one computer to another will be to make use of iTunes. iTunes allows for data backup from iPhones and other iDevices. If you have just gotten a new computer, you can transfer your backup data to he new computer by locating the backup file on your computer. Note that iTunes does not allow for preview and selective backup of files.

Steps to transfer iPhone backup to New computer with iTunes:


Locate the iTunes backup file on your Windows or Mac PC.


1) Mac: /Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/





2) Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\


3) Windows Vista and later: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\





Insert your USB device into your old computer and copy the backup folder to the drive.


Remove USB from old computer and plug into the new PC.


If you don’t already have iTunes on your new Windows PC, download and install it.


Locate the iTunes backup folder on the new computer and copy your backup file from the USB drive into the new computer.If you lost data after you updated to a new iPhone, you can always use Gihosoft iPhone Data Recovery to get the data back from the old iPhone or backup.


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Limitations:


iTunes does not allow preview and selective transfer, the whole backup file will be copied altogether.


You can't backup photos, videos, and documents from third party apps.
How to Transfer iPhone Backup to New Computer with iCloud

An alternative way to backup your iPhone files is to back them up to iPhone’s cloud storage system, iCloud. This will make your backup files available to you at any point in time, on any of your devices.


Connect your iPhone to WIFI.


Go to settings and select iCloud.


Turn on “iCloud Backup”


Select “Backup Now”


Then you can access your backup files on your new computer by downloading iCloud for Windows on the PC.


Limitations:


It's not a convenient method to open the backup on Windows PC.


You will constantly require internet connection to access it.