Quick Tip: Disable Backup To Speed Up iPhone Sync

Posted
January 10, 2009
12:23 pm

Quick Tip: Disable Backup To Speed Up iPhone Sync

If you are like me, you have your iPhone loaded with tons of great apps. The more you install, the longer it seems to take when you sync your phone with iTunes.

One quick way to substantially speed up the sync time is to disable the automated backup. I manually back up my phone every few days, so I don’t need iTunes to do it automatically. The following steps will disable the automated iPhone backup during iTunes sync.

1. Close iTunes.
2. Open Terminal.app.
3. Enter (or copy and paste) the following command and press return.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

4. Open iTunes.
5. Sync your iPhone and enjoy!

If, for any reason you want to reverse this change simply execute the following command in the Terminal.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool false

kwgtx

This probably obvious but how do you manually backup after the hack. The "backup" right click option disappears. Thanks in advance.

buhyabum

You could also just click the "x" that appears in the far right of the message window at the top of iTunes when it indicates that the backup has begun. iTunes will skip the backup and immediately begin the sync process.

Jordan Brough Stuff I found online.

Quick Tip: Disable Backup To Speed Up iPhone Sync