Other Stupid question about iTunes Backup of my phone

[darkus]

Sorry for the n00b question,

I'm backing up my phone right now in iTunes, which was amazingly quick. In fact my phone has about 8GB in photos, 1GB in music and 13GB in data/document, around a total of 22-23GB of stuff

After the backup my HD space went down only by about 5GB. So i'm sure a lot of it is compressed saving space, but taking 23GB of stuff down to 5GB seems odd?

I was thinking iTunes is backing up everything (including photos and music), but is it possible that iTunes isn't doing that anymore? Music i'm not to concerned about, I can always redownload it. But the photos are my big question

I see in iTunes theres a whole separate tab for photos and syncing photos, maybe in Apples new logic photos are not part of a backup and I should try to sync with the photos app? (i pray apple didn't do this)

Anyone have a clue?

This is with iTunes 12.8 and an iPhone SE

Thanks!! Going to head out to the apple store to replace my screen, and wanted to make sure I don't lose any data incase anything bad happens

 

[gnasher729]

I was thinking iTunes is backing up everything (including photos and music), but is it possible that iTunes isn't doing that anymore? Music i'm not to concerned about, I can always redownload it. But the photos are my big question

Apps are not backed up (just the fact that the app was on your phone, so the apps will be downloaded from the AppStore again). Same with purchased music. Lots of applications having downloads don't back them up, because you can just download them again when needed.

The photos are usually stored in iCloud already, so they shouldn't need an extra backup on your Mac.

 

[darkus]

Apps are not backed up (just the fact that the app was on your phone, so the apps will be downloaded from the AppStore again). Same with purchased music. Lots of applications having downloads don't back them up, because you can just download them again when needed.

The photos are usually stored in iCloud already, so they shouldn't need an extra backup on your Mac.

I tuned off iCloud storing of my photos way back when so they are definitely not there...

 

[VineRider]

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204136

This article explains what is backed up

 

[Erehy Dobon]

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