Prevent backup of iPhone on macOS Catalina I don't want to back up my iPhone in any way; not to my Mac, and not to iCloud. However, it seems the backup to macOS is forced whenever I connect my iPhone to my Mac, since I have opted out of iCloud backups. The dialogs are all grayed out and the process starts without my consent:



Is there any way to prevent this?
If you scroll down to the Options section, and uncheck "Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected", does that help?