iMazing is an iOS file manager designed for Mac. With its help, you can back up the media files from your iPad, transfer your iPhone contacts to your computer, copy music from your iPod to your local iTunes library, and so much more. So, it definitely comes in handy to people who own iOS gadgets.
The program is compatible with multiple iOS versions and device models (even the new generation), supports various file formats and communicates well with iTunes. You can use the utility to back up your iOS data to your iTunes library or local directories and delete files from your Apple gadget with just a few clicks.
After you connect your iOS device to your Mac, the tool automatically imports and sorts the files from the gadget. You can preview your photos, use the built-in search tool to immediately locate files within the device, back up iOS app data, and so much more. So, the utility can complete a wide variety of tasks.
The one thing that's still missing from the tool is a built-in media player which might come in handy if you want to pre-listen songs or watch videos from your iOS device before transferring them to your Mac.
Briefly, I think anyone who owns an iOS device and is looking for an alternative to using iTunes for managing Apple gadget data should give iMazing a try. It's feature-rich, simple to handle, and affordable.
v2.0 [Sep 1, 2016]
- Full iOS 10 compatibility, including for encrypted backups.
- Full iPhone 7 and 7 Plus compatibility.
- Automatic archiving of backups: backups are not overwritten, and disk use is optimized to store many backups of a single device.
- Backups popover: navigate your device’s backup history.
- Backup history cleaner: iMazing will offer to delete older backups of a device if they take too much space.
- Ability to set backup locations per device.
- Step-by-step wizards for backup, restore and transfer operations.
- Restoring a backup, or transferring data from one device to another now supports choosing which apps to restore/transfer.
- Wizards for activating and pairing new devices.
- Battery health popover.
- UI: new layout, colorful looks.
- UI: Home screen and lock screen of devices are displayed in iMazing.
- Photos: iMazing will now display your entire iCloud Photo Library, even if full res pictures are not on the device. See the ‘All Photos’ album.
- Photos: Export thumbnails if the full res picture is in the cloud.
- Privacy: iMazing actively encourages users to enable backup encryption 3 Data: Export raw data feature to export device backup data in files and folders.
- Fixed issue where restoring a customised backup from an external drive did not work.
- Fixed installation path following user feedback.
- Fix for jailbreak compatibility.
- Better handling of choice of backup location when write permission is denied.
- Removed obsolete ‘Export to TXT’ button from the Call History view and fixed routing of Export to CSV’ button.
- Fixed lacking extension when exporting archive to .imazing.
