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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1909961" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>[USER=127551]@exncite[/USER] </p><p></p><p>Along with everybody else, I acknowledge and sympathise with your frustration.</p><p></p><p>I explained in post #4 how to backup any iDevice to iCloud. I’m not sure if that’s what you want or if you’ve tried it?</p><p></p><p>The problem is, of course, that you still have iTunes rather than its successor, Music app.</p><p></p><p>And again, without a hint of offence, there is a significant difference between backing up and syncing. Backing up means copying your data to another source such as your Mac (not possible in your case as you know); or to iCloud. Backing up means you can retrieve that data.</p><p></p><p>Syncing is a means of sharing your data with some or all of your Mac devices.</p><p></p><p>The distinction is important. iMazing, which I use and others have suggested, is a backup, not a sync. That’s important to appreciate. Your iPhone(s) are bang up to date and I plead with you to keep them as such. They or it, will backup to iMazing no problem. You will then have 2 backup strategies - iCloud and iMazing.</p><p></p><p>I think I can explain your comment in post #13 about “moving” a song to iMazing. It’s not really how it works because the idea is to backup everything to iMazing. Moving this or that is likely to cause problems as you found.</p><p></p><p>There’s more to this but my senior colleagues have tried very hard to find ways of dealing with the other issues, particularly syncing.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1909961, member: 83420"] [USER=127551]@exncite[/USER] Along with everybody else, I acknowledge and sympathise with your frustration. I explained in post #4 how to backup any iDevice to iCloud. I’m not sure if that’s what you want or if you’ve tried it? The problem is, of course, that you still have iTunes rather than its successor, Music app. And again, without a hint of offence, there is a significant difference between backing up and syncing. Backing up means copying your data to another source such as your Mac (not possible in your case as you know); or to iCloud. Backing up means you can retrieve that data. Syncing is a means of sharing your data with some or all of your Mac devices. The distinction is important. iMazing, which I use and others have suggested, is a backup, not a sync. That’s important to appreciate. Your iPhone(s) are bang up to date and I plead with you to keep them as such. They or it, will backup to iMazing no problem. You will then have 2 backup strategies - iCloud and iMazing. I think I can explain your comment in post #13 about “moving” a song to iMazing. It’s not really how it works because the idea is to backup everything to iMazing. Moving this or that is likely to cause problems as you found. There’s more to this but my senior colleagues have tried very hard to find ways of dealing with the other issues, particularly syncing. Ian [/QUOTE]
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