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How to Create Local Backups of Notes on Mac

Apr 28, 2022 - 9 Comments
How to backup Notes locally on a Mac

The Notes app is popular for keeping bits of data, jotting down information, maintaining lists, storing text, photos, and so much more. It’s completely reasonable to want to create a local backup of notes from the Notes app, but you may be unsure of how to accomplish that. We’ll discuss a few ways to backup … Read More

How to Save a Backup of All Gmail Emails to Your Computer

Apr 5, 2022 - 10 Comments
How to Save a Backup of All Gmail Emails

Do you use Gmail as your preferred email service? If so, do you want to save a copy of all the emails you have received and sent over Gmail up until this date, locally to your computer, device, or hard drive? Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to save a backup of all your emails from Gmail, … Read More

How to Backup Voice Memos from iPhone

Oct 20, 2021 - 2 Comments
How to Backup Voice Memos from iPhone

Do you use the built-in Voice Memos app on iPhone or iPad for recording your voice or other external audio? If you’re a regular Voice Memos user, you may want to back up all your recordings to make sure you don’t permanently lose them.

How to Reduce Your iCloud Backup Data Size on iPhone / iPad

May 19, 2021 - 2 Comments
How to Reduce Your iCloud Backup Data Size on iPhone

Are you running low on your iCloud storage space? If an iCloud backup is too large for the iCloud plan you have, you won’t be able to backup the iPhone or iPad, and this is one of the most common reasons iCloud backups fail. If you’re not planning to upgrade to an iCloud plan with … Read More

Can’t Remember Password for Encrypted iPhone Backup? Here’s What To Do

Mar 31, 2021 - 3 Comments
Can't Remember Password for Encrypted iPhone Backup? Here's What To Do

If you use iTunes or macOS Finder to locally back up your iPhone or iPad, you could run into a situation where you forgot the devices backup password, and you’re no longer able to use this backup to restore your device. That’s not a great feeling, but don’t panic quite yet because if you find … Read More

How to Restore Apple Watch from Backup

Jan 19, 2021 - 1 Comment
How to Restore Apple Watch from Backup

Need to restore your Apple Watch? Did you upgrade the Apple Watch you have to a newer model? Perhaps, you accidentally set it up as a new device and you want all the data you had on your old Apple Watch? If so, you may be interested in learning how you can restore your Apple … Read More

How to Backup Your Apple Watch

Jan 16, 2021 - Leave a Comment
WatchOS 6

Your Apple Watches contain all kinds of information that you probably don’t want to lose, so backing it up is important. Your contacts, health data, and more are all stored on your Apple Watch and the health data, in particular, is all absolutely something you can’t replace should it go missing. That’s why backing everything … Read More

iCloud Backup Failed on iPhone or iPad? Here’s How to Fix & Troubleshoot

Dec 19, 2020 - 1 Comment
iCloud Backup Troubleshooting

Are you having trouble backing up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud? More specifically, did you get an error notification saying “iPhone Backup failed” on your lock screen? This issue is not really uncommon, but it’s usually a pretty easy to fix if you do encounter it.

How to Restore iOS Backups in MacOS with Finder (Big Sur & Catalina)

Sep 28, 2020 - 5 Comments

As you likely know by now, iOS and iPadOS device backups are handled differently in macOS Big Sur and MacOS Catalina compared to Mojave and earlier that ran iTunes. Instead of iTunes for device management, device syncing, backups, and restores are all handled in the Finder now instead. We’ve already explained how to go about … Read More

How to Backup iPhone or iPad to Windows PC

Aug 24, 2020 - 7 Comments
How to Backup iPhone or iPad to Windows PC

iPhone and iPad users who have a Windows PC may be happy to know they can backup their iPhone or iPad to Windows PC by using iTunes. Since not all iPhone users have Macs or iCloud, this offers another backup solution for the PC-based user base. And if you’re not paying for iCloud, the chances … Read More

How to Backup iPhone Photos to Google Photos, for Free

Jul 30, 2020 - 7 Comments
How to Backup iPhone Photos to Google Photos

Are you an iPhone user looking to backup your photos to the cloud, but you have either ran out of iCloud storage space, don’t want to pay for iCloud fees, or you’re already intertwined within the Google ecosystem? You’re certainly not alone. Thanks to Google Photos, there’s an alternate way to backup iPhone photos to … Read More

How to Delete iPhone & iPad Backups with Finder in MacOS Big Sur & Catalina

Mar 18, 2020 - 1 Comment
Click manage backups

Need to clear up some disk space or get rid of some old iPhone or iPad backups on a Mac? With the latest versions of MacOS, managing iOS and iPadOS device backups is done entirely in Finder, including deleting and removing device backups.

How to Backup iPhone or iPad to Mac in MacOS with Finder (Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, & Catalina)

Jan 13, 2020 - 14 Comments
macOS Finder Window

Wondering how to backup your iPhone or iPad in MacOS Sequoia, MacOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, MacOS Big Sur or MacOS Catalina? Since iTunes is gone, even the most experienced of iPhone and iPad users can be thrown for a loop when they come to back up their devices after updating a Mac to … Read More

How to Backup WhatsApp Chats to iCloud on iPhone & iPad

Dec 28, 2019 - Leave a Comment
How to Back Up WhatsApp Chats to iCloud

Want to make sure your WhatsApp chats and conversations are backed up? You’re in the right place. Regardless of what instant messaging platform you may use, your messages and other media are of huge importance. These could include work-related conversations with colleagues, important plans with family, friends and the list just goes on. This is … Read More

How to Delete iCloud Backups in iOS 13 and iOS 12

Sep 7, 2018 - 4 Comments
How to delete iCloud backups from iOS

You can delete iCloud backups directly from iOS for any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has been backed up to iCloud before. This means you can delete any new iCloud backups, or remove old iCloud backups, for any reason you want. Perhaps you’re trying to free up iCloud storage space, or you just no … Read More

iPhone Restore from iTunes Backup Taking Forever? Here’s the Fix

Nov 9, 2017 - 17 Comments
iTunes

Whether you’re setting up a new iPhone, migrating to an iPhone X from an old iPhone, or just restoring an iPhone through iTunes for troubleshooting or some other reason, the process of restoring an iTunes backup to an iPhone should not take an excessively long amount of time. But sometimes a peculiar situation can happen … Read More

Fix “the last backup could not be completed” iOS iCloud Backup Error

Nov 14, 2015 - 70 Comments
Last backup could not be completed to iCloud error in iOS

For iCloud users with automatic backups configured, the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch will backup to iCloud every evening when connected to wi-fi. This usually goes without a hitch, but sometimes you may check the iCloud Backup settings to discover a vague message stating “The last backup could not be completed.” You may also see … Read More

How to Delete Old iCloud Backups on iPhone & iPad (in iOS 9, iOS 8, iOS 7)

Jul 16, 2015 - 13 Comments
Access iCloud backups from iOS

Backing up a device to iCloud is highly recommended, but sometimes users get a new iPhone or iPad and they have old backups laying around in their iCloud account, which may not do much and just end up taking space. Assuming you have no use for the old backups anymore, you can easily delete them … Read More

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