Stop the Annoying Long iPhone Backups
At the moment there seems to be a consensus that the iPhone is taking a stupidly long time to backup. The backup function is incredibly important, especially when Apple’s 2.02 iPhone software is not at all stable. This is a very quick guide on how you can disable this function making your iPhone sync rapidly with iTunes.
- Ensure iTunes is closed
- Open Terminal.app
- Copy and paste the following command exactly:
- Open iTunes and Sync your iPhone, you should now find this very rapid.
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
Let’s hope Apple clear this up in version 2.1, due to be released in the coming weeks.
25 year old PhD student from rainy Manchester UK.
September 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Yeah I found that to be extremely annoying too. I ended up using a little app called “Backup Disabler” that does the same thing.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
@Paul, thanks for that! Never knew that software existed and it definitely makes it easier…. especially for being able to easily turn it on and off at will.