{"id":203,"date":"2012-05-17T02:24:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T02:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:06:42","slug":"how-to-disable-itunes-auto-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/how-to-disable-itunes-auto-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"How to disable iTunes auto backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have this problem, every time you plug In your iOS devices like iPod, iPhone or iPad to computer, iTunes will automatically make a backup. This is very annoyed if you already have a backup and you just want to upload a few songs. And this step by step guide will show you how to disable the iTunes auto backups. Let\u2019s start the guide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/image\/blog\/disable-itunes-backup.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step1. Close iTunes and then launch Terminal, found in \/Applications\/Utilities\/<\/p>\n<p>Step2. Enter the following defaults write command:<\/p>\n<p><strong>defaults write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Step3. Relaunch iTunes for changes to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to re-enable the iTunes auto backup, you can follow these guides<\/p>\n<p>Step1. Close iTunes and then launch Terminal, found in \/Applications\/Utilities\/<\/p>\n<p>Step2. Enter the following defaults write command:<\/p>\n<p><strong>defaults write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Step3. Relaunch iTunes for changes to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all. If you want to know how to transfer iTunes library to another computer, here is a step by step guide for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewstown.com\/how-to-transfer-itunes-library-to-another-computer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.reviewstown.com\/how-to-transfer-itunes-library-to-another-computer.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have this problem, every time you plug In your iOS devices like iPod, iPhone or iPad to computer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mac-dvd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}