2 Methods to Backup iPad Data to Mac OS X Mavericks

Backing up your iPad data to Mac regularly can help you to solve the puzzling issues you may have come up with on your iPad air. By backing up your iPad, you'll never suffer from losing important data unconsciously. If you have just upgraded your Mac OS to Mavericks and are about to backing up all data on your iPad, you can come here. In this article, I'd like to show you two methods to backup your iPad air, iPad mini with Retina display, The New iPad, iPad mini, iPad with Retina display, iPad 2 and iPad completely.

• Method 1. iPad Data Backup in Mavericks without iTunes
• Method 2. Backup iPad Data to Mac OS X Mavericks via iTunes

Method 2. iPad Data Backup in Mavericks without iTunes

Looking for a way to backup iPad music, video and photos, especially the ones grabbed from other places except iTunes, to Mac in OS X Mavericks? The powerful desktop iPad to Mac transfer tool – Wondershare TunesGo perfectly meets your need. It helps to backup all or selected music, video and photos to standalone files with little time.

Note: Wondershare TunesGo fully supports all generations of iPad models. You can check the official page of TunesGo Tech Specs for more detail.

The following guide will show you how to back up iPad data on Mac with Wondershare TunesGo.

Step 1 Start TunesGo and Connect iPad

Download and install Wondershare TunesGo on your computer, then start it. Connect iPad to computer with the USB cable, and the program will automatically detect your device. Then you'll see all the manageable file categories in the main interface.

Step 2 Backup Data from iPad into Mavericks

Choose a file category, and you'll get access to the detailed page. The program will display the sections of the files in the left sidebar, along with the contents in the right part. Now select the files you want to back up, and click the Export button in the software window, then choose Export to PC or Export to iTunes in the drop-down menu. After that, Wondershare TunesGo will export the files to your Mac computer.

After backing up these files on your Mac, you don't have to worry about data loss on your iPad anymore. With Wondershare TunesGo, you'll able to copy these files from your Mac to any Apple device, like iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. If you are interested in this program, you can free download the software to have a try.

Method 2. Backup iPad Data to Mac OS X Mavericks via iTunes

iTunes is a good iPad data manager for backing up iPad settings, app and app data, purchased music, books, TV shows, messages, ringtones and others. Follow the below instructions to backup data on iPad to Mac OS X Mavericks step by step.

Step 1 Connect iPad to Mac with the USB cable, and iTunes will launch automatically. If not, you can manually start it on your computer.

Step 2 iTunes will detect your iPad automatically. Choose the Summary Panel and click the Back up Now button. Then iTunes will create a backup of your iPad data on Mac computer.

With these steps, you can backup your iPad data to Mac running OS X Mavericks completely. However, backup process turns out to be time-consuming and the backup file can't be read on your Mac computer. What's worse, iTunes can't help to back up the media files synced to your iPad from Mac. Thus, if you want to backup iPad data and want to view the music, photos and video without any restrictions, you are strongly recommended to use the third party tool as shown in the first method.