Feature Article Hero Image AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site. Try looking on the bright side for a moment. For years everyone has been telling you to back up your iPhone to your Mac and you’ve never bothered. Now you don’t have to — but that’s because as of macOS Mojave, there’s just no point. It’s true that plugging our phones into iTunes has been inconvenient. So let’s take a moment to applaud how Apple has made iCloud backups better over the years. And now rage about how what’s really happened is that the iTunes backup has been reduced. There is no longer any discernible difference between the two and that’s because Apple has removed the single greatest reason to back up to your Mac. Previously you were able to make backups of your iOS apps: plug your phone into iTunes on your Mac and it backed up your apps. It also let you pick one of those apps and drag files to it via your Mac. We don’t miss that because it was slow and fiddly, at least compared to the ease we now have of doing the same thing automatically… Read full this story
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