

Audio content-music, podcasts, audiobooks, and iTunes U content.

Here is an Apple support article on backing up your iOS device which provides more details.Īs per the article you can sync the following Syncing your iOS device with iTunes allows you to copy information(more detailed list below) to your iOS device from you computer and vice versa. So if you connect your old iPhone, let it backup/sync, then connect your new iPhone, it should transfer everything so that your new phone is just like your old one, but faster! When you connect a new iPhone to your computer, iTunes will offer to reconfigure it using the latest backup it has. Unless you've changed the settings, when you connect your iPhone to your computer, iTunes always performs a backup first, then a sync. You might want to stop movies from syncing to your phone if you never use it to watch movies, for example. By default, it copies everything, but you can fine tune it all you want. You can think of it this way: backup saves a copy of stuff you've created, and sync copies media you have downloaded via the iTunes Store.īackup copies everything, but Sync only copies what you choose through iTunes. Sync means copying new apps, music, video, or books from iTunes to your phone, or from your phone to iTunes. That includes application settings, text messages, voicemails, etc.

Backup means copying your personal data from your phone to your computer.
