Has anyone else seen this, and found a solution for it? It's the same issue seen in these threads: I am running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and iOS 14.4.Įvery time I Sync the phone, or leave the page and refresh it, the Back Up option keeps changing to the iCloud option. I want my iPhone to back up to my MacMini, and not to iCloud. The backup option for my iPhone keeps changing from 'Back up all of the data on your iPhone to this Mac' to the iCloud setting automatically. Not what you need when you've just shelled out some serious cash. I hoped it would be solved when i upgraded my 10 year old MacBook Pro 13' for the new MacBook Pro 2021 14' running monterey but the problem has just followed me! This has never been a problem till Catalina and since then it has done this to me every single time I back up (dozens of times) and it is now really doing my head in. I have backed up my phone to my Mac for absolutely years - at least a hundred times as I do it every month. If I try it again immediately it starts a sync. If I set it to backup to Mac and hit apply it just flips it back to iCloud. Dozens and dozens of reselects later it's still the same. Unlike for Tracy Rog who also posted this same problem, mine has most definitely not 'learned over time'.

Can't set Backup iPhone to Mac as default - part 2 Whenever I select back up iPhone to Mac it just flips it back to default backup to iCloud whenever I reconnect my iPhone.

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