

Updating iOS without an iTunes backup on Windows There's a simple approach to avoid being forced to backup when updating your iPhone. If you're reinstalling a particular version of iOS or restoring your phone, that might not be helpful to you.

Whilst we regularly stress the importance of updating your backup, in some cases this isn't helpful: particularly if you're running this process because your phone is in a partially broken state.Īpple's over-the-air ("OTA") update mechanism avoids the need to update your backup when installing. In doing this, it'll overwrite your latest unarchived iOS backup unless you can cancel it rapidly enough. If you update iOS on your iPhone using iTunes, you'll find it insists on updating your iTunes backup before it does so.
