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What's up everybody, Ian here for Cult of Mac, and with the iTunes breakup just around
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the corner, and the rise in popularity of cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive
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the idea of managing your iOS device through your Mac or your PC is getting harder and
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a lot less accessible. But it doesn't have to be, thanks to today's sponsor, AnyTrans by iMobi
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AnyTrans for iOS is an all-in-one iPhone manager and transfer app for both Mac and PC, as well
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as a powerful backup utility for all the iOS devices in your life
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If you remember the hassle of having to transfer files to and from your iPhone through iTunes
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AnyTrans makes that dead simple. Just like plugging in a flash drive, you can quickly drag and drop files from AnyTrans
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onto your desktop or to another phone or another device on your machine
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AnyTrans also offers a couple ways to backup your iPhone to your Mac, much like an iTunes
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or iCloud backup, with a few exceptions. With a full AnyTrans backup, you can backup almost everything on your iPhone, including
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10 types of files that aren't backed up through iTunes, though it wasn't immediately clear
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to me what those 10 types of files were. The data can also be encrypted using the same system as your iTunes-encrypted backups, a
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must for improved security. Once a full backup has been completed once, you can use incremental backups to backup
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only the things that have changed since the previous backup, saving both time and space
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on your Mac. The final backup option is AirBackup, which is AnyTrans' version of an iCloud-type backup
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It backs up locally to your Mac, as long as your phone and your Mac are both on Wi-Fi
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and AnyTrans is accessible on your Mac. Unlike with iTunes backups, the backups created with AnyTrans can be explored much like they
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would be a zip file. These backups can be opened up, you can browse the files in them, you can pull things out
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of the backups, and it makes it really convenient for taking a maybe dead or dying phone, pulling
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everything off of it, and then being able to sift through that to find those important
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pictures or voice memos or whatever you have saved on that device that you need to recover later
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It is worth noting that AnyTrans backups don't back up health data, Apple Pay stuff, or other
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personal or sensitive data like an iTunes or iCloud backup would, but they are great
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for backing up the physical content of your device. The AnyTrans Social Messages Manager is a separate backup feature which can help you
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transfer, backup, and restore messages, photos, and other content from third-party messaging
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services like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber. Typically, there isn't a good, reliable way to backup this content other than screenshots
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or saving pictures to your camera roll, but if you need that data backed up somewhere
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AnyTrans has you covered. A pair of features I really enjoy in AnyTrans are the Clone and Merge features
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With the Clone feature, you can essentially duplicate the contents of one device onto
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another iOS device, which can be really great for developers who need to set up sample files
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or sample content on a whole bunch of test devices. The Merge feature allows you to take two iPhones and it allows you to more simply kind of blend
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the content onto one device. One final really cool feature of AnyTrans is their Media Downloader
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With the Media Downloader, you can essentially paste in a YouTube link, a SoundCloud link
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a Vimeo link, or even just search for something and find the results inside the Media Downloader
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This content can then be downloaded from the web onto your machine, allowing you to watch
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it offline or if you wanted to have a whole playlist of music downloaded from SoundCloud
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and not have to use your data to listen to that music
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AnyTrans packs tons of useful features and goes above and beyond what iTunes can do all
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in a single unified app. If you tend to deal with a ton of iOS devices in your life or you really care about backing
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up the data that's on your iOS devices, give AnyTrans a try at the link below
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And a huge thanks to the folks over at iMobi for sponsoring this video. Be sure to like and subscribe, leave me a comment and let me know if you found this helpful
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And until next time, I'm Ian for Cult of Mac, catch you in the next one
