Find and Change iTunes Backup Location on Windows 10

Regular iPhone or iPad backups with iTunes on Windows 10 is a great habit until you find out that the backup is taking up a lot of disk space. This will be especially noticeable if you are using a small SSD to boot Windows 10.

However, there is a way out: you can change the location of the iTunes backup to another partition or external drive. If you do not know how to do this, you have come to the right page, here it will be described in detail how to change iPhone backup location in Windows.

How to change it?

First, you should rename the current backup folder so that it is not overwritten and only then redirect the iTunes backup storage. To do this, in the original location of the iTunes backup, right-click the "Backup" folder and select "Rename." Next, enter the name Backup.old and press Enter to save it.

Now navigate to another disk partition or external drive and create a new iTunes backup folder. Give it the desired name and transfer the contents of Backup.old to the newly created iTunes backup folder.

Now you need to create a symbolic link (this link is like a shortcut that makes a file or folder look like it really is) to redirect the old iTunes backup storage to the new one.

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