{"id":11606,"date":"2017-08-18T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2017-08-18T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T16:56:25","slug":"auto-backup-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=11606","title":{"rendered":"Auto backup iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to problem solve an issue with photos syncing to my phone and every time I have to test it it backs up the full 50 gig of data making this process extraordinarily long and tedious. But it seems you can disable that feature using terminal. I record it here for posterity &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are synchronizing to a Mac:<\/p>\n<p>1. Close iTunes on your Mac.<\/p>\n<p>2. Launch Terminal.<\/p>\n<p>3. Type<\/p>\n<p><strong>defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p>4. If you want to re-enable automatic backups, type<\/p>\n<p><strong>defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/6083556?tstart=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/6083556?tstart=0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to problem solve an issue with photos syncing to my phone and every time I have to test it it backs up the full 50 gig of data making this process extraordinarily long and tedious. But it seems you can disable that feature using terminal. I record it here for posterity &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}