Over the last few years, the storage space available on iPhone and iPad has been growing substantially, and we now have 256 GB and 512 GB devices commonly seen in the market. Unfortunately, if you have been backing up your iOS device to iTunes for a few years now, your Mac is probably being overburdened by the large file size of these backups. Before Apple introduced the ability to back up all the data on your iPhone or iPad to iCloud, iTunes was the only recommended method of automatically backing up your iPhone and iPad to your Mac. If you have traditionally synced your iPhone or iPad with the iTunes app on your Mac, there’s a very good chance that iTunes has been backing up all the data on your iOS device. If iTunes Backups of your iPhone and iPad are taking up too much space on your internal hard drive (Macintosh HD), then here’s a handy guide to move iOS backups to an external hard drive.
