How to delete iTunes backup?

“I have done many backups in my iTunes with my iPhone and iPad, now it takes too much storage space, so i want to delete some of my iTunes backup. What should i do to deleted iTunes backup?”

As we know iTunes backup files are saved in our computer, when many files are saved in your PC, it’ll be full also. So if you want to clear some space from your PC, you can also delete some iTunes backup that you don’t need any more. From this page, we’ll show you how to delete iTunes backup, follow below steps and learn more.

Delete iTunes Backup

1.Launching iTunes on your PC, go to iTunes--Preference, see below picture.



2.Then tap on Device on the Preference bar, then all your backup files will be listed below it.



3.Choose the backup files you need to delete, tap on “Delete Backup”.



4.Then confirm with “Delete” when it prompt with this notify.

Or you can go to your backup files directly in your PC:

For Windows: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup 

For Mac ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ 

Tips: when you want to restore your iPhone data from iTunes backup selectively, or you haven’t done any backup. You can choose iRefone for you to recover your lost or deleted iPhone data.

iRefone is an excellent iOS data transfer and recovery software, it can recover more than 16 kinds of files from your iPhone, iPad and iPod. Also it can extract iPhone data from your iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and you can also preview then before restoring.

Now you can download and install the free trail version to have a try.



For more detailed steps, you can refer to below article:

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Encrypt your iTunes backup

To protect your backups in iTunes, we can encrypt it by enter the passcode. And this page will show us how to encrypt your iTunes backup.

“I’m using the iTunes in my office PC, so when someone use my PC, I’m afraid he could see my backups in my iTunes. So i want to encode my backups in iTunes. But iTunes won’t do it by default, anyone knows how to encrypt your iTunes backup?

Yes, there is a way can help us encrypt your iTunes backup, for the first time encrypt, you’ll need to turn on password-protected Encrypt backup option.

Encrypt iTunes Backup

1.Launching your iTunes on PC, and make sure it’s with latest version.

2.Then connect your iPhone with PC, and your iPhone image icon will show up on the top left corner. Tap on Files--Summary, then you can see option “Encrypt iPhone Backup”, tap on it.



3.When it needs password, create one and remember it. When you confirm with the password, the iTunes will start doing backup, also overwrite and encrypt your former backups.

When finish backup, you can go to top for menu bar, tap on iTunes--Preference--Device, then you’ll see the lock image icon on the right of your image icon with the date and time you created this file. Then click OK to close it. Now you’ll make sure the backup is finished.

Tips: when you want to restore iPhone data from your iTunes backup selectively, or you lost some iPhone data which haven’t be backup, you can come to iRefone for help.

iRefone is an excellent iOS data transfer and recovery software, it supports three recovery mode, that is Recover from iOS Device, Recover from iTunes backup and recover from iCloud backup. Also it allows us to preview them before restoring, and we can restore the data selectively.

Now you can download and install the free trail version to have a try.


For more steps, you can refer to below article:

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