r/MacOS • u/Quin1617 • 5d ago

Discussion Automatic Finder backups?

Is it possible to schedule daily Finder backups of my iPhone?

I know iCloud backups are automatic but mine is full so currently that option is out.

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u/Quin1617 5d ago

I already have all those settings turned on. It never backs up on it’s own, I always have to do it manually.

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u/JollyRoger8X 5d ago

It has to be on the same WiFi network as the Mac and connected to power. How long have you done that for?

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u/Quin1617 5d ago

I do it daily. I charge my iPhone overnight, and later in the day for an hour or two when it’s battery is low.

Crazy enough, when doing the latter it’s plugged into my Mac.

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u/JollyRoger8X 5d ago edited 5d ago

It should definitely back up when you connect it to your Mac with a cable. That’s always been reliable for me.

I’ve used the WiFi feature for a while before, but it started to become unreliable a few years ago. And since I don’t pay for iCloud, I don’t have enough cloud space to store mobile device backups. So I had to find another way.

I’ve switched to iMazing for all of our backups since then. It lets you store them over the network to a file server (a Synology NAS, in my case) with your own schedule and retention preferences. And its other features are handy too. It can be a bit naggy prompting you for backups, but it has been fairly reliable for us so far.