Itune Backup Folder Page

They deleted the folder entirely. Nothing broke. Her next backup was a fresh 12GB.

That was the iTunes backup of his wife’s old iPhone 6S. The phone itself had only 64GB of storage. So how was the backup three times larger? Because iTunes, by default, backs up the device repeatedly, preserving old snapshots and accumulating logs, old app data, and cached files that no longer exist on the phone. Worse, Apple never provided a built-in tool to see or manage these backups from within iTunes on Windows—you had to dig manually. itune backup folder

A few years ago, a freelance photographer named Alex noticed his Windows PC was constantly running out of space. He had a 500GB hard drive, yet only 20GB were free. He ran disk cleaners, deleted old downloads, and even removed some games. Nothing helped. They deleted the folder entirely