Backing up iPhone directly to external hard drive?

You also need to give iMazing Full Disk Access in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy.

You[re best bet with an iMac is to move the contents of your Pictures folder to a folder (Pictures-2) on the EHD and operator them from there.

iTunes stores backups in one location and iMazing stores them in a different location, and you can change the folder where iMazing stores backups if you wish.

Changing your iPhone or iPad's backup location will only affect future backups. It will not move existing backups to the new backup location. ...

Click the Backup location preferences button to manage your backup locations and configure new ones. ???? Note: When adding a disk as a backup ...

You can change each of your device's backup location from the Device Options Window. For more information, see How to backup an iPhone or iPad ...

Instructions · In the sidebar, right-click on your device (control-click on Mac) on the device whose backup you want to copy, and choose Export ...

I start a backup, and BOOM, it reverts to the iMazing location on my Macbook's nearly full hard drive. Which is why I bought the Samsung 2TB.

Whenever i try to add a new backup location, it shows a choice of folders but the only folder is Desktop but im trying to backup onto an external drive, how ...

Here's a way you can change your iOS device backup location, particularly useful if you're trying to be safe before upgrading to iOS 11.