Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Find a list of your iOS or iPadOS backups on your Mac, PC and iOS or iPadOS device. Find out how to delete backups, copy them and more.

  • Find backups stored on Mac or PC
  • Delete or copy backups stored on Mac or PC
  • Find and manage backups stored in iCloud

Find backups stored on your Mac or PC

To avoid ruining any of your backup files, here's what y'all should know:

  • The Finder and iTunes relieve backups to a Backup folder. The location of the Backup folder varies past operating system. Though you can copy the Fill-in folder, you should never move it to a different folder, external drive or network drive.
  • Don't edit, relocate, rename or extract content from your backup files. For example, to restore from a relocated backup file, you lot need to move the backup file back to where it was in the Fill-in binder or the file won't piece of work. Backups serve as a prophylactic copy of near all of your device's data and settings. So while you may be able to view or access a backup file's contents, the contents aren't unremarkably stored in a format y'all can read.

Search for the backup folder on your Mac

To find a list of your backups:

  1. Click the magnifier in the carte bar.
  2. Blazon or re-create and paste this: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
  3. Printing Return.
  4. Select the Backup folder under Folders.

Find a specific backup

On a Mac with macOS Catalina or afterward:

  1. Open the Finder. Click your device.
  2. Nether the General tab, click Manage Backups to see a list of your backups. From here, correct-click on the fill-in you want, then choose Show in Finder, or select Delete or Annal.
  3. Click OK when you've finished.

On a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier, or on a PC:

  1. Open iTunes. Click your device.
  2. Choose Preferences, and then click Devices. From here, right-click on the backup yous want, and then choose Evidence in Finder, or select Delete or Archive.
  3. Click OK when you've finished.

Search for the fill-in folder on Windows 8 or 10

  1. Discover the Search bar:
    • In Windows 8, click the magnifying glass in the summit right-hand corner.
    • In Windows 10, click the Search bar next to the First button.
  2. In the Search bar, enter %appdata%. If you can't meet your backups, enter %USERPROFILE%.
  3. Press Return.
  4. Double-click these folders: "Apple" or "Apple Estimator" > MobileSync > Backup.

Delete or copy backups on your Mac or PC

Don't edit, relocate, rename or extract content from your backup files, because these actions may ruin the files. Y'all can make copies of your backups or delete backups you no longer need.

Copy backups to another location

If you lot need copies of your backups, y'all can find the Backup folder and re-create the unabridged folder (not just office of information technology) to another place, such equally an external drive or network storage location.

Time Automobile copies your Backup folder automatically when yous back up the Dwelling house folder on your Mac.

Delete backups

On a Mac with macOS Catalina or later:

  1. Open the Finder. Click your device.
  2. Under the General tab, click Manage Backups to see a list of your backups. From here, right-click on the backup yous want, then select Delete or Archive.
  3. Click Delete Fill-in, and then ostend.

On a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier, or on a PC:

  1. Open up iTunes. Click your device.
  2. Choose Preferences, then click Devices. From here, right-click on the backup yous want, then cull Delete or Archive. Click OK when y'all've finished.
  3. Click Delete Fill-in, then confirm.

Observe and manage backups stored in iCloud

If y'all use iCloud Fill-in, y'all won't find a list of your backups on iCloud.com. Hither'due south how to find your iCloud backups on your iOS or iPadOS device, Mac or PC.

On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch:

  1. Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud.
  2. Tap Manage Storage, then tap Backups.
  3. Tap a fill-in to encounter more details most it, cull which data to back upwardly or delete the fill-in.

You lot can choose which content to dorsum upwardly solely from the Settings menu of the device that stores that content. For instance, while you can view your iPad backup from your iPhone, you can only cull which iPad content to dorsum up from the Settings menu of your iPad.

On a Mac with macOS Catalina or later:

  1. Choose Apple carte  > Organization Preferences.
  2. Click Apple ID.
  3. Click iCloud.
  4. Click Manage.
  5. Select Backups.

On a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier:

  1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences.
  2. Click iCloud.
  3. Click Manage.
  4. Select Backups.

On your PC:

  1. Open iCloud for Windows
  2. Click Storage.
  3. Select Backup.

Notice out more than near how to delete or manage iCloud backups from your Mac or PC.

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