iPhone backup file?

@romad Dennis Swaney
Tue, 05 May 2026 19:56:40 +0000

David C.:

You should be able to pull up your list of backups from iTunes or the Finder.

OK, I was able to figure it out but in a convoluted way.

First, my iDevices do NOT appear in the Finder which isn’t surprising as this is MacOS 10.13.6

Second, I could not find a way to view them in iTunes 12.8.3.1, just either do a backup or restore from a backup.

So I went to ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ and did a Get Info on each of the 4 most recent backups. This gave me the modification Date/Time of each folder.

I then connected each iDevice to iTunes and compared the “Latest Backup” DTG of each one to those in the 4 Get Info windows thus matching each device to Apple’s ridiculous folder name. I then entered this in a Text Edit file for future reference.

I was unable to do the same with the backup file that was last modified on August 17, 2020. This is most likely either a previous iPhone, iPad, or the 3GS iPhone I converted to an “iPod 3GS”. I would like to delete it so if I manually send it to and then empty the Trash, would that cause any problems?