Please jump to our dedicated guide here.<\/a> If you wish to back up your iPhone or iPad to the same location as iTunes, keep reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn macOS 10.14 Mojave, Apple introduced new security features to better protect user data against malware and spyware. Users must now explicitly authorise apps to access specific data, including iTunes backups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you select the iTunes backup location as backup location for iMazing backups, iMazing will display a screen explaining how to grant access: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simply follow the instructions in this window, and you will see iMazing and iMazing Mini both added to the macOS Preferences’ Security & Privacy->Privacy Tab->Full Disk Access<\/em> trusted apps list: <\/p>\n\n\n\niMazing handles sharing its backups with iTunes very well. iTunes backups will be archived before iMazing backs up so that they are not overwritten – they are simply integrated to iMazing’s backup snapshots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\ud83d\udca1 Tip:<\/strong> You can of course rescind permissions at any time: launch the macOS System Preferences<\/strong> app, select Security & Privacy -> Privacy tab -> Full Disk Access<\/strong>, and remove iMazing from the list.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nWhat to keep in mind<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n- The first time you back up your iPhone or iPad, iMazing will automatically display backup location options.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Changing your iPhone or iPad’s backup location will only affect future backups. It will not move existing backups to the new backup location.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Changing your iMazing backup location will not affect your iTunes backups’ location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
iTunes can back up your mobile devices to a default location on your computer’s system drive. But what about backing up your iPhone or iPad to an external drive or NAS? To a specific folder or partition? iMazing’s backup management features are 100% free. With iMazing, you can easily set an iPhone backup location, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19003],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146937,"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95638\/revisions\/146937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustafa.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}