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Disable slow iTunes Backups for iPhone/ipod touch with a single mouseclick

admin on July 26th, 2008

For those of you not familiar with the terminal I wrote a simple application, that lets you disable and enable backups for the iPhone/ipod touch with a single mouse click.

Download DisableBackup

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

This only works on the mac. Windows Users click here.

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60 Responses to “Disable slow iTunes Backups for iPhone/ipod touch with a single mouseclick”

PedroInfante666
July 27th, 2008 at 12:37 am

Thank you.
Bill
July 27th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Thank you so much!
Poweriser
July 28th, 2008 at 10:33 am

Nice, thx.
Jaymzo77
July 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Thanks a bunch!
Nick
July 28th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

Out of curiosity, would you be able to post the actual commands for the program? Thanks a lot, by the way!
brucebrendon
July 30th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

MANY thanks D
Quorlan
August 1st, 2008 at 8:42 pm

The actual terminal command to disable the backups is:
defaults write com.apple.itunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool YES

You can also change the YES to NO to re-enable the backups.
LarryInAz
August 5th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

Just wondering if it’s still safe to disable backup with the new 2.01 firmware and 7.7.1 iTunes update?
Mark
August 15th, 2008 at 1:09 am

Can’t wait to try this! Thank you so much.

I am in no way a programmer or a software expert, but it would seem to me that the backups “start from scratch” any time a change is made to an app- if one is added or taken out, etc.

One would think they would be progressive- if that’s the word- and would only update any info that has changed, not the whole thing.

Can anyone shed light on what’s going on?

Thanks again for the app!
Dennis Nederlof
August 30th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

I have written a small FREE Windows program called “iPhone Backup Switch”. The program will allow you to enable and disable the iPhone backup feature in iTunes. I have tested it pretty well in Windows XP and VISTA. There is a backup feature that will backup the iTunes configuration and let you restore a previous version, if something goes wrong. Comes complete with installer and uninstaller.

Get it here:
http://www.microseconds.com/backupswitch.html
MikeM
September 7th, 2008 at 5:50 am

WOW! Thanks. I was trying to figure this out on my own. So simple. Works perfect.
Rhizoned
September 9th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Ummmm….has anyone just tried going into iTunes preferences and turn off automatic backups under the syncing option….?!?
sherro
September 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

your are a genius
dta
September 11th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

thank you so much! your my hero!
Adam Zmenak
September 12th, 2008 at 1:42 am

This is great, it only does one thing, but it works.
ponel
October 19th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

my iphone is disabled, and it says connect to itunes after doin that it says restore and update iphone, but update is taking forever anyone who can advice me on a faster way.
Nate
January 7th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

Thanks! Works great!
Jon Rozorf
January 13th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Thanks! Nice post.
Amara
January 18th, 2009 at 1:10 am

SOS! My auto was broken on ave. Should I call to repairs or police?
Quad
January 18th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

wonderful post))
Star
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm

what a nice story..
Ted
April 9th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Great tool. Before it took hours to synchronize my iPod touch, no joke. Thanks a lot!
Ken
July 12th, 2009 at 6:48 am

Thank you thank you