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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1905378" data-attributes="member: 396914">Yes. Connect your iPhone or iPad to the MBA by a cable. Wireless might do, but it works better with a cable. Now open Finder and the iDevice should be listed in the sidebar on the left, under &quot;Locations.&quot; Select it an there should be a screen on the right side with Backups as a section. There should be a button named &quot;Manage Backups...&quot; there. Click it and the backups should appear in a popup window. You can delete them from there by clicking on one, then the &quot;Delete Backup&quot; button. In the backup section you can select to backup your most important data to iCloud, which will keep it off your MBA. Note that not everything is backed up in in iCloud backups. Again, read the link I posted earlier and follow the links in it for details.I think from any iDevice you can delete all of the backups, but if the iPhone only sees the iPhone backup, you can attach the iPad and repeat. In any event, that will delete the IOS backups from the MBA for you.EDIT: By the way, that same Finder screen is where you can set up how you want to handle syncing of Music, Movies, TV shows, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Books, Photos and even move Files to/from the iDevice to the MBA. It is also there for updates and restoration of the iDevice, if needed. That pane is&nbsp; only there in Finder if an iDevice is attached.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1905378, member: 396914"] Yes. Connect your iPhone or iPad to the MBA by a cable. Wireless might do, but it works better with a cable. Now open Finder and the iDevice should be listed in the sidebar on the left, under "Locations." Select it an there should be a screen on the right side with Backups as a section. There should be a button named "Manage Backups..." there. Click it and the backups should appear in a popup window. You can delete them from there by clicking on one, then the "Delete Backup" button. In the backup section you can select to backup your most important data to iCloud, which will keep it off your MBA. Note that not everything is backed up in in iCloud backups. Again, read the link I posted earlier and follow the links in it for details. I think from any iDevice you can delete all of the backups, but if the iPhone only sees the iPhone backup, you can attach the iPad and repeat. In any event, that will delete the IOS backups from the MBA for you. EDIT: By the way, that same Finder screen is where you can set up how you want to handle syncing of Music, Movies, TV shows, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Books, Photos and even move Files to/from the iDevice to the MBA. It is also there for updates and restoration of the iDevice, if needed. That pane is only there in Finder if an iDevice is attached. [/QUOTE]

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