If you regularly back up your iPhone using iTunes (or the Finder on macOS Catalina and later), it's important to know where those backup files are stored — especially if you need to free up space, manually copy a backup, or troubleshoot.

Here’s a explaining where iTunes stores iPhone backups on different operating systems.

, but with caution:

| OS | Path | |----|------| | Windows 10/11 | %APPDATA%\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ | | macOS (Catalina+) | ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ | | macOS (Mojave & earlier) | Same as above |

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If you need to to free up space, go to:

Inside the Backup folder, you’ll see folders with names like: 3a5b9c7d-1e2f-3a4b-5c6d-7e8f9a0b1c2d