Many users feel frustrated with the way iTunes manages (or essentially fails to manage) iOS devices. You’d be surprised by the amount of emails we receive daily saying that their iPhone won’t backup to iTunes. To make our life easier, we decided to summarize all iTunes backup issues in one place and provide the actual solutions. Show
If you are reading this, it means that you probably got an iTunes error message while trying to back up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. We found that most iTunes backup errors can be resolved by several easy solutions we listed in this article. This article features iTunes errors and solutions that should help you to backup your iOS device: iTunes errorsHere’s a list of the most common errors in iTunes:
Most issues that cause iTunes backup errors occur either on the side of your iPhone or your PC. Troubleshoot
If your backup is corrupt and you don’t want to lose your precious data, you can extract data from a corrupt backup. If the solutions above fail to help you solve the problem, it may quickly become complicated. Our experience shows that even Apple Support may not be able to help. iTunes could not backup because the backup was corrupt or not compatibleWhen you backup your device with iTunes, the backup can turn out corrupt due to various reasons like connectivity issues, or you may have unplugged your device too early. iTunes also fails to check the data integrity of your backup, and later you can end up with nothing on your hands. As a result, you cannot make a new backup based on the previous one that is corrupt. Is there a way around this issue? Solution 1: make a full backup with CopyTrans ShelbeeCopyTrans Shelbee is a PC tool designed to complete full-featured iOS backup and restore for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The program works independently of iTunes and quickly helps you forget the iTunes error. Forever. Here’s how quick and easy it is.
Once your backup is done, you may want to make a full or selective restore with CopyTrans Shelbee.
✔ restore everything or just selected data back to your iPhone; ✔ do full or incremental backup; ✔ choose the folder to save your backup to; ✔ be sure your backup stays intact; ✔ restore data from the iTunes backup; ✔ create an encrypted iPhone backup to protect sensitive data*; ✔ save your apps**. *includes iPhone passwords for Wi-Fi, email accounts, websites, and some apps **apps should be on the App Store at the time of the backup iPhone wont backupYouTube tutorialiTunes could not backup the iPhone because the backup was corruptSolution 2: extract data with CopyTrans Backup ExtractorCopyTrans Backup Extractor searches for backups and extracts Photos, Messages, Contacts, Calendars, and Notes from your iPhone backup directly to your computer. Even if your backup is corrupt, CopyTrans Backup Extractor will be able to retrieve the information that has been saved properly, nonetheless.
✔ extract photos from iPhone backup in HEIC, PNG, and JPEG formats; ✔ extract videos from iPhone backup in MOV and MP4 formats; ✔ extract contacts from iPhone backup in VCARD format (separate files); ✔ extract text messages from iPhone backup (SMS, iMessages, WhatsApp, LINE) in PDF (with attachments in a separate folder); ✔ extract notes from iPhone backup in HTML format; ✔ extract calendars from iPhone backup in ICS format. iTunes could not backup the iPhone because not enough free space is available on this computerThe error message reads: “iTunes could not back up the iPhone because not enough free space is available on this computer” suggesting deleting files from the computer and the Recycle Bin. Unfortunately, the statement above doesn’t really help users to resolve the issue. You don’t know how much free space you need or where you should be deleting your data from. We created an easy iPhone backup solution called CopyTrans Shelbee that allows you to backup your iPhone wherever you want and to change the location of your original iTunes backup. NOTE: If you don’t have one already, you can get an inexpensive high-capacity external hard disk or a USB drive to keep iPhone backups.
Why should you choose CopyTrans Shelbee over iTunes? ⭐ You can make an incremental backup with the latest changes ⭐ You can change the location of your backup ⭐ You can perform a custom restore of your data to the device if there’s no need to do a full restore ⭐ You can backup and restore apps even if they aren’t in App Store anymore Backup your device to an external hard drive:
As a result, you saved your iPhone backup to the location of your choice in the exact same format as the backup made by iTunes. You can also use CopyTrans Shelbee to restore a previous backup to another device. This is how easy it is to go around the iTunes errors and back up the iPhone regardless of the free space left on your primary computer drive. These easy steps will help you extract data from the iTunes backup on your PC that you thought you lost irrevocably. We hope that following these steps will help you backup your iPhone despite the iTunes error messages. Contact our support team if you need additional guidance; we are always happy to help! |