Our household has one Macbook Pro & Multiple iOS devices.
My wife has an iPad and iPhone and I have an iPhone. We have separate Apple and iTunes ids. I want to safely backup my wife's data w/o losing anything or merging our data. She hadn't backed up her iPhone or iPad or done any of the updates for 3 months because she'd reached the 5 GB limit on iCloud. There were a lot of pictures and videos from a trip home to New Zealand and my daughter's graduation from college that had not been backed up. Last weekend I read some articles on the internet that said iCloud did not back up videos and suggested using both iCloud and iTunes. I tried iTunes with my iPhone and all went well. Then I attached my wifes iPhone and had two choice 1) new iPhone or 2) restore. I didn't know what option 1 meant so like a fool I chose restore (terrible mistake) and everything in her phone was deleted and replace with a duplicate of my iPhone.
Needless to say I'm in the doghouse in major way! Even so, I still need to know how to safely backup her iPhone and iPad. I bought the additional 20G of iCloud space after getting her phone back the way it was as of the last backup 3 months ago. But that still doesn't help me save videos. And, I'd like to be able to save everything to a stand along hard drive just in case the iCloud backup fails or her devices stop working. I'm able to use Time Machine to back up my laptop to an external drive so one thought is to somehow get her pictures and videos onto my laptop so I could do a Time Machine backup. I don't know if that's possible or the best solution.
Sorry for the long story but I need to know how to do this this safest, easiest and best way. Right now I'm afraid to hook her iPad or iPhone up to my Macbook Pro for fear I'll lose everything yet again.
Thanks,
Jeffery Scott
victoryhat is spot on, on your Mac you should each have your own user account with your own accounts and data files.
Backup the IOS devices to iCloud, transfer the vidoes to your Mac with iTunes and backup the Mac with Time Machine
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