If you are someone who takes a lot of photos and saves documents and files on your iPhone, then you may also keep multiple backups of your iPhone on Mac. Since these backups are large in size and Macs have limited storage space, you may want to transfer them to external storage. This will not only free up some space on your Mac, but also help you manage backups of different devices in multiple locations for safety.
How to Backup iPhone to External Hard Drive on Mac (2024)
In this post, we'll explain how to copy iPhone backup from Mac to external hard drive.
No. macOS only allows you to back up content from your iPhone to your Mac’s local storage. There’s no option to save these backups directly to an external HDD, but you can move existing backups from your Mac to your external storage at any time. Moving backups to external storage helps free up space on your Mac for future backups and other files. This way, you can save some of your iPhone backups and use them to restore your device to one of its previous states.
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