How to Find and Access iTunes Backup Files on Computer

iTunes is a helpful tool for people to backup and recover iPhone/iPod/iPad data. Generally speaking, when you sync iPhone to computer, iTunes can automatically generate a backup for your iPhone on computer. You can export and restore iPhone data from iTunes backup anytime If you backup your iPhone/iPad/iPod data via iTunes and store the backup file on your computer, but do you know where are these backups stored? In this article you will learn how to find and view iTunes backup file on computer.

In addition, this article will provide you with an effective way to access the backup and selectively extract the data you want from the backup. With iPhone Data Recovery application, you can easily get back your lost photos, videos, contacts, notes, and more. More importantly, exporting the backup data in this way will not overwrite any of your original data, so you don't have to worry about loss of existing data in your iPhone. iPhone Data Recovery program not only supports you preview and recover iPhone data from iTunes backup, it also supports exporting backup data from iCloud selectively. But what if there is no backup? It doesn't matter, you can us this program to scan and restore the data directly as well. This method will be described in detail in other articles.

Part 1. Where are iPhone backup files stored on computer

You can find the iTunes backup files on below directory on your computer.

MacOS / OS X: /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup.

Windows 8/7/Vista: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

Part 2. How to Access and Recover iTunes Backup Files

Step 1. Download, install the iPhone data recovery program on computer and run it, go to "Recover from iTunes Backup" option in the main windows, you will see all iTunes backup list in order, select one backup and click "Start Scan" button to extract it.

Step 2. When the scan is over, you can see photos, videos, contacts, text messages, call logs, app audios, whatsapp and other data type on the left panel, tap the one you need and view all data in detail on scan result. If you need to recover them, you can tick all data you need and click "Recover" button to sync data back to iPhone or save data to PC for use.