Many people have been complaining – including myself – about the extremely long, tedious, and annoying backup procedure during the sync from your iPhone to your iTunes.
The syncing process is actually quick on it’s own – it’s the backup procedure that takes ages. That being said, here’s the extremely simple work around.
Simply click the X and the back up will stop. Your syncing will continue, it will just skip the back up process.
However, it’s important to back up your iPhone sometimes – so don’t skip it every time.
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Wow…so simple…the iphone itunes sync backup process has been bugging me like crazy…little did i know you can just cancel the iphone backup so easily and continue syncing your iphone to your itunes
Thank you!!! I missed going to the gym because I wanted to add some new music to jog to, but the synching too forever and the gym closed! Thanks for this, and yes, I will be sure to back up the phone at a separate time.
i forget my iphone passcord and the iphone display (iphone is disable)
Please tell me what i can do.
can you restore it t new in itunes?
i’ve pressed the X a million times now and it won’t stop!
i’ve pressed the X a million times now and it won’t stop!
i have comodo firewall and i do not let the backup access the internet. then the backup will not start at all. i don’t like stopping it after it’s started. you can probably set any firewall to not allow access
and when you would like to actually do a backup, give it permission from your firewall
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There’s no X to click!!!!
A big “Thank You”!!!!!
dude this is not really a fix… is it? i don’t want it to come up at all.
when i press the x the sync will stop!!!!!!!!!!
There is no X in my iTunes 9
yeah, I have no ‘x’ either. Is it browser dependent?
I just pressed control-alt-delete and ended the backup apple process that was running. Seems to work (doesn’t end itunes or anything else).
steps to show how to download anything from itunes to iphone
when i press x
it reboots itself
and starts over -___-
i have an itouch 3rd gen
Thanks clbigcl, I also use Comodo and your tip about blocking it with the firewall works like a charm. Now the synch skips this step entirely!
Shalom and thanks. But can you help me stopping the backup of iPhone when i update the os? When i tried i stopped the updating too. Thanks and bat regards!
Sometimes this works; sometimes not. Sometimes, it requires starting the synch again and then clicking the x again before it takes and it skips the backup.
Sometimes, it completely ignores my clicking the X and keeps on backing up, backing up.
In those cases, just select quit iTunes and you will be prompted that it will be terminating the backup. Say yes, have iTunes quit, then sync again, being sure to click that pesky X right away.