If you're new to Apple and the Apple ecosystem, you would know that you'd have to use iTunes for everything. If does itunes backup messages copying photos, the question that might come to your mind. Note: If your iTunes fail to work as expected. Well yes, iTunes backup photos so that in case you lost your phone or it gets damaged, you can successfully recover your photos. Does iTunes backup stores photos excluding camera roll. No, an iTunes backup backs up the photos which are present only in the camera roll. All other photos must be separately backed up on your system and can be restored later. Step 1: Open iTunes does itunes backup messages your system by double clicking on its icon. Step 2: Now, click on the option 'File' present on the left top corner of the screen. A drop down menu appears. Scroll down and click on 'Devices' as shown below. Step 3: Once you click on 'Devices', a new menu appears. Once you click on 'Back Up', it automatically creates a backup of your device on your computer. Step 4: To cross check and verify whether the backup has been created, click on the 'iTunes' options present at the left top and then click on 'Preferences'. A new window appears as shown below. Step 5: In the 'Preferences' window, click on the the option 'Devices' as shown below and you can view the details of your backup like backup date and time. Note: Here we need to know that iTunes can only do a whole device backup, it doesn't allow us to backup whatever we want. You can read to know how to view iTunes backup directly on your does itunes backup messages. Also, in order to solve the weakness of iTunes backup, we are going to introduce a user friendly software, to preview and flexibly backup your iPhone data. And the exported backup is also readable. Let's see the below part. Part 2: How to selectively backup and preview iPhone photos From the above introduction, we can know that iTunes can backup photos. But it is a whole backup. We can't backup only photos with iTunes, which makes iTunes not flexible and friendly to users. While allows you to view and selectively backup iPhone data to our comptuer. Preview and selectively backup iPhone photos in 5 minutes. Steps to selectively backup photos from iPhone by dr. Download, install and run dr. Connect your device to the computer. Here you can see dr. After the backup completes, click on View Backup History. Then you can seel all backup files on your computer. Click on the latest backup file and then click View button. Then you can view all files in the backup. Steps to view iTunes backup directly Step 1: Open the dr. Click on the option 'Recover from iTunes Backup File' as show below. Step 2: Once you click on 'Recover from iTunes Backup File', a list of all the iTunes backup files present in your computer appears on the screen. You can see the name of the backup file, date and time of creation etc. Select the backup which you want to view by clicking on it and finally click on the 'Start Scan' option present at the right bottom corner. Step 3: Once the scanning is completed, you can view all the contents in the backup file like contacts, messages, notes, call log, photos etc. You can view the entire contents as show below. Steps to backup iPhone data to computer selectively Step 1: Open dr. It will take some time to detect your device. Once detected, your device will be shown on the screen. Step 2: On the menu on the left side, different categories are present of the backup files like media, playlist, contacts etc. Click on any of the category to view the details. For example you want back up photos to your computer, then click on 'Photos'. A menu appears on the screen. Step 3: Open the folder whose photos you want to backup by double clicking on it and the clicking on it. A new menu appears showing the photos in that folder. Step 4: A new window appears asking for the destination where you want to backup the file. These wil create a backup of the files you selected on your computer. Step 5: The status bar shows the progress of your export. Once it reaches 100% your files are exported successfully. Part 5: How to fix iTunes issues that interrupt photo backup iTunes is a common and effective way to backup your media files like photos, music, and videos. But things are not that easy when iTunes is down due to some unknown reasons. Here is an iTunes diagnosis and repair tool to help you. The following screen shall appear.
