How Do I View My Iphone Back Ups In Itunes

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iPhone and iPad backups contain nearly all your mobile data. They are a great way to make a point that your data is safety - mislay your phone, and you'll be up and operative in no time on a new one if you have a Holocene epoch backing imminent.

But what if you need to access information from a backup quickly, without restoring it to a device? Or access and export information that is only free in backups, like Messages? Malus pumila's iOS backup format is non human readable, and you'll need a dedicated software to do meet that. Browsing backups in iMazing is 100% unrestricted, so thither's no reason not to give it a pass!

And if you've made your backups with iMazing, you'll have the option to choose between triune snapshots of your devices (unlike iTunes, which just keeps one musical accompaniment per device.)

Ahead you begin

Download and install iMazing on your Mack or PC computer

What content can I browse in a Backup?

If your device is not connected to your computer by USB surgery Wi-Fi, you'll still be able to browse its backup.

The undermentioned datasets are available when browsing a backup:


	Photos
	Messages
	Apps and App Files
	Contacts
	Notes
	Ringtones
	Voicemail and Call History
	Safari History and Bookmarks
	Calendars
	Filing system

When browsing a backup, you can browse your device's File away Arrangement - even if it's encrypted. And there's no ask to jailbreak your device!

For Thomas More entropy, see:

How to Extract files and data from an encrypted iPhone backup?
What data is included in an iPhone or iPad backup?
How to graze and transfer iPhone files and folder?

Instructions

Browse device backups
Switch backup to current state
Browse iTunes backups in macOS 10.14 Mojave and above

Browse Device Computer backup

To browse a twist's musical accompaniment:

In the sidebar, select your device.
In the high toolbar, snap Backups. This will open the Backups Window.
In the Backups Window, select the backup that you wish to browse and snap the View push.
You have now entered your device's Support Browse Vista, and you can look at its contented as it was when the backup was made.

Switch back to current state

To interchange back to a device's current state:

In the upper toolbar, click the Backups button. This will open the Backups Window.
In the Backups Window, select the incumbent state and click the View button.
You are now back to Gimmick Aspect

💡 Tip: You derriere quickly switch to the current State by right-clicking your device in the sidebar and selecting Switch to Connected Twist

Browsing iTunes backups along macOS 10.14 Mojave Desert and above

With macOS 10.14 Mojave, Apple successful your information even more secure by adding new security features which hold against malware and spyware accessing your close data. You must now explicitly authorise apps to entree specific data, including iTunes backups.

If you haven't empowered iMazing to access your iTunes backups yet, you will see a clitoris to do so at the bottom of iMazing's sidebar:
Click the button, and iMazing wish display book of instructions to facilitate you impart it to the list of apps which hindquarters access iTunes backups:
Click the Open System Preferences button, and iMazing will open macOS Preferences at the right spot: Security &ere; Privacy, Privacy tab, Full Disk Access whitelist:
Click the lock in the bottom left and enter your macOS user account password to allow changes:
Now simply drag and drop the iMazing icon from iMazing to the Preferences window as shown below:
macOS will admonish you that iMazing must restart for the alter to take effect, and offer to step down the app. If you don't have any operations spurting, you can buoy quit immediately, otherwise plainly click Later and stop and restart iMazing and iMazing Mini at your convenience.

Once you've empowered iMazing to access iTunes backups, the backups will appear in iMazing's left sidebar along with devices, in a section labelled Old Backups.

💡 iMazing needs to be whitelisted for Full Disk Access in order to approach your iTunes backups because there is no finer grained setting available. It does not take vantage of that perquisite to admittance any strange protected data, and can work absolutely well regular if you wear't grant get at. You can simply move or copy your iTunes backups to a location to which macOS does non trammel access to, and then open them with iMazing.

💡 Tip: You can of course overturn permissions at any time: establish the macOS Organisation Preferences app, select Security & Privacy -> Concealment tab -> Full Disk Approach, and take out iMazing from the list.

What to keep in judgment

In the sidebar, devices enrolled under the Available Devices section are currently connected, or rump potentially be adjacent to via Wi-Fi.

All other devices listed in the sidebar are not connected. When you select one of those devices, iMazing displays the table of contents of its about recent backup. To view a different backup for that gimmick, choose one from the Backups Window.

When browse a backup from the backup list, you'll acknowledge changes in iMazing's interface: iMazing's backup browsing view with interface changes highlighted

Sidebar - device is greyed out with a backup connection icon
Backup lists - button indicates the date and time of backup
Support actions are available
Backups details - device thumbnail is in black and ovalbumin
Disk usage - bar is full and shows how much space is being used by the backup.