3 Ways to Easily Backup iPod Touch to Computer or iCloud

Why Backup iPod Touch matters?

iPod Touch is a great tool designed for entertainment. You could listen to music, watch movies, and play games on it. With the iOS system, iPod Touch also comes with practical features, including Facetime, iMessage, and so on.

With long-time use, your iPod Touch can keep a large number of photos, music, videos, messages, game data, etc, that quickly consume storage of your iPod Touch. in this condition, it is really important to backup your iPod Touch to avoid data loss.

On the other hand, transfer data to another place is a smart way to save some space on your iPod, so you don't lose your data and the iPod can free up more space. Next, you can refer to this post, which will demonstrate 3 methods to perform this operation.

How to easily backup iPod Touch to PC with 3 methods

Here we provide a professional iOS transfer tool, iTunes, iCloud to guide you on how to save your iPod Touch data to a computer and cloud storage.

Method 1. Backup iPod Touch to computer (support selective backup)

To backup an iPod Touch to a computer, FoneTool can be one of the best choices. It is a free professional backup software for Apple devices, allowing to backup iPod Touch data to a computer, like photos, videos, music, messages, games data, contacts, and so on.

Besides, It also provides other features to satisfy different needs, such as

● Full or Custom Backup: This feature allows you to select items and files, like photos, videos to backup, or make a complete backup on your PC.
● Data Transfer: FoneTool helps you to transfer music and other data from computer to iPod, from iPod to computer, or from iPod to iPod or other iOS devices.
● Preview and Select: You could backup your favorite songs or movies by previewing and selecting the files you want.
● External Drive: You could easily change the path to backup files to external drive.
● Widely Compatible: You could feel free to use FoneTool for it supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch on most operating systems including the latest iOS 15.

Next, click the download button and we will guide you on how to backup iPod Touch using FoneTool

Step 1. Download FoneTool for free. Connect iPod Touch to computer with USB cable and tap “Trust” on it.

Step 2. Click "Phone Backup" on the left side of the interface, and choose "Selective Backup" or "Full Backup" according to your need. Here we guide you through the Selective Backup feature.

✍Note:
◆ Full Backup: Backup the whole content of your iPod Touch.
◆ Selective Backup: Select data, like photos, videos, messages, music to backup.

Step 3. Check the icons you want to backup. And you can click the icon to choose specific files. Then specify the storge, and click "Start Backup".

If you want to view your backup, click the eye icon or pin icon to view or locate your backup. If you need to restore iPod Touch from that backup or transfer media files to another device, connect the device to computer, select the task in Backup History, and click Restore.

Method 2 Backup iPod Touch to computer with iTunes

iTunes could help you to create a full backup of iPod Touch, while should know what iTunes backup includes. iTunes would backup most local data and it means that if you could download the media files from the store, it won’t be covered. You could not decide your backup or view it on the computer.

But it is worth mentioning that restoration with iTunes backup would erase all the existing data and totally restore iPod Touch to the previous state. If you want to backup iPod Touch to computer with iTunes, follow the steps below.

Step 1. Download iTunes for Windows. Connect iPod Touch to computer with USB cable.

Step 2. Click the phone-shape icon and enter "Summary" of iPod Touch.

Step 3. Choose "This Computer" and click "Back Up Now". It would take minutes to complete the task.

To restore the backup to your iPod, connect the target iPod to the computer, and launch iTunes. Click "Restore iPod" in the Summary tab. Then follow the prompts.

Method 3. Backup iPod Touch with iCloud

iCloud is a built-in tool that you could find in Settings. You could create a backup and save it in the cloud without installing other apps. Every ID would be allocated with 5GB of free storage. Like iTunes, it saves most local data but the data you have already uploaded via iCloud settings, like iCloud photos and messages, would be included. iCloud backup could only be used for signing in to a new iPhone.

Follow the instruction below to backup iPod Touch with iCloud.

Go to "Settings" > tap [your name] > tap "iCloud" > scroll down and enter "iCloud Backup" > enable "iCloud Backup".

Completing the procedures means you want your iPod Touch to create an iCloud backup at night when you are not using it. If you want to backup your iPod with iCloud immediately, tap "Back Up Now".

iTunes does the same job while it saves your data to computer. You could compare iCloud backup vs iTunes backup and see the differences.

Conclusion

Here we discuss 3 methods of how to backup iPod Touch to computer. To save the media files and safely restore iPod Touch, you could choose FoneTool to selectively backup iPod Touch. You could also use iTunes or iCloud to create a full backup but you need to take time downloading media files after restoration.