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Deleting MobileSync contents

Is there any danger in deleting the iPhone backup files within the MobileSync folder and starting iPhone backups again from scratch? I sense the size of my iPhone backup file is larger than it should be and taking up valuable extra space on my Mac (for example when I delete 5GB worth of music on my iPhone and re-run an iPhone backup to my Mac, the backup file only drops by a few hundred MB).

iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14

Posted on Aug 30, 2021 11:01 PM

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Posted on Aug 31, 2021 7:56 AM

Here is how to properly delete them:

Locate backups of your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

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Deleting MobileSync contents

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