by Lydia on April 05, 2017 | 0 Comments

How to Fix iTunes Backup was Corrupt or Not Compatible Error

Many users told us they could not restore iPhone from iTunes backup, and iTunes popped up a message saying the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored. If that happens to you as well, you are on the right page.

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Yesterday I backed up my phone in my laptop with iOS 10.2. Today I get a new phone with latest iOS 10.3, but when I try to restore, iTunes says this backup was corrupt or not compatible. Please help!

- A User from Ask Different

While restoring iPhone from your iTunes backup, maybe you were stuck with the same situation in which an error message prompting iTunes could not restore the iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored. The tip comes to explain why the error occurs and how to fix it with 2 methods.

Reasons for “iTunes Backup Corrupt or Not Compatible” Error

Generally, there are two reasons for “iTunes backup corrupt or not compatible” error occurring.

• Incompatible iOS versions caused the problem. If as the user above, you made an iTunes backup for iPhone running iOS 10.2, but hope to restore it to an iOS 10.3 iPhone, then iTunes won’t work.
• Error happened when creating iTunes backup. While making iTunes backup, some errors may occur but no notice showed, so you mistakenly believe backup have been created successfully.

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Method 1. Delete Corrupt or Incompatible Backup and Restore Again

If such problem happens, we advise you to delete the corrupt or incompatible backup first. Detailed steps of deleting iTunes backup are given below.

Step 1. Open iTunes on your computer.

Step 2. For Mac users, click iTunes on menu bar; for PC users, click Edit on the left corner of your iTunes.

Step 3. Click Preferences.

Step 4. Select your device from the backup list and then click Delete Backup.

After deleting the corrupt or incompatible backup, you need to back up your iPhone with iTunes again, and then perform another restore.

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Method 2. Backup and Restore iPhone with iTunes Alternative

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• Allows you to back up and restore iPhone/iPad/iPod touch without iTunes.
• Before backing up iPhone data to computer, it enables you to choose export path and output format that is totally accessible and viewable.
• Before restoring iPhone from iTunes backup, you can preview all the data in iTunes backup and choose certain content you need like SMS to recover.
• In addition to recover iOS data from iTunes backup, it can also retrieve data from iCloud backup or directly from your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.

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Conclusion

A total of 25 types of iOS files and data can be retrieved from iPhone and iTunes/iCloud backup with ease, including contacts, notes, messages, photos, call history, etc. Now download Primo iPhone Data Recovery to have a try.

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