Apple offers iPhone users two backup methods: iTunes and iCloud, allowing them to back up photos, music, contacts, notes, and iBooks. While iTunes provides an option to backup an iPhone to a PC or Mac, it does not permit editing of backup files on a Windows PC. However, there is a way to edit iPhone backup files on a Windows PC.
There are alternatives to iTunes that allow you to edit backup files on a Windows PC, making it easy to backup an iPhone without iTunes on Windows 7/8/10. These alternatives also enable you to backup songs and messages from your iPhone to your PC, a feature that is not possible with iTunes.
Qiling MobiMover, a professional iOS data transfer software, can directly backup all iPhone data, including music, videos, contacts, and messages, to PC. Additionally, it allows users to edit the iPhone backup file in the selected folder where the backups are saved, making it a convenient tool for managing iPhone data.
Qiling MobiMover allows you to transfer data from your iPhone to your computer, effectively creating a backup that you can edit from the computer. This method is preferable to using the device backup feature if you need to edit your iPhone backup. By transferring your iPhone data, you can save your photos, videos, music, contacts, messages, and other content to your computer, where you can access and edit them as needed.
Step 1. Connect your iPhone to a Windows 10 PC with a USB cable, then tap "Trust" on your iPhone screen. Open Qiling MobiMover, go to "Phone to PC" mode, and click "Next" to proceed.
Step 2. All apps available on your iPhone are loaded here, allowing you to choose all or a specific type to proceed. Before transferring, you can also customize a storage path to keep the transferred content, or it will be saved on your Windows 10 desktop. Once you've made your decision, click "Transfer" to start moving files from your iPhone to your PC.
Step 3. MobiMover supports transferring data from an iOS device to Windows 10, as well as Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers.
After the software finishes transferring, you can check the files in the selected folder. From there, you can copy and move items to any desired location, or sort the content into a different folder with a different theme.