Fix “iPhone Taking Forever to Backup”

If iPhone backup is taking hours to complete or forever, you can use any of these guides to fix the issue:

Uninstall Old iPhone Apps: Crowding up your iPhone with old games you’ve stopped playing for months can lead to slow iTunes backups and iPhone taking forever to backup. Old apps will make you have more data to back up every time you’re backing up your iPhone. Since there is no much reason to keep them on your iPhone, just erase them to speed up your iPhone.
Delete duplicate and large photos: Your iPhone backup may take forever to complete if you have large camera rolls and photos on your iPhone. The truth is that when you have many large photos with their duplicate in your iPhone storage space, iTunes may tend to spend more time backing up these large files to your PC. The best thing to do is to delete the large and duplicate photos from your iPhone.
Step 1: Launch Photo, and scroll through each photo on your iPhone to fetch out the duplicate and large photos.
Step 2: Delete them from your iPhone. However, make sure these photos are already backed up on your computer.
Regularly backup your iPhone: There is a correlation between the length of time a backup takes to complete and the interval between backups. When you allow too much time to pass before backing up your iPhone, you may tend to accumulate excess files before the next backup. The best way to avoid “iPhone backup taking forever” is by scheduling a specific interval for backing up your iPhone data.

iPhone taking forever to backup may be due to the following causes listed above, and the solutions above can help you to fix the problem. However, we highly recommend iMyFone TunesFix for fixing iTunes errors and issues like super-slow iTunes/iPhone backups. So, download and install iMyFone TunesFix on your PC to start enjoying fast iTunes performance during backups.