Iphone is one of the most innovative and unique creation of Apple with dynamic features and stylish look and design. iPhone is not only a cell phone but it has many advance features which facilitates the users and provides many facilities such as surfing net, downloading files, capturing images and videos storing important notes and documents, tasks contacts etc.

But in some unfortunate condition you may lose your iphone data. The best solution to come out of this situation is to create iphone backup. Creating backup of iphone data will not only make your data safe but also prevent data loss situations. But in some situation while creating iPhone backup, ITunes displayed “cannot backup iphone” error messages.

“Could not backup the iphone because the iphone disconnected”

The root cause of above “cannot backup iphone” error messages may be corrupted existing backup which has make iTunes unable to create further backup of iphone data.

You may come out of the situation trying following methods:

1. Delete existing backups: The error may have occurred because of corrupted existing backup you may delete them by following methods:

Open iTunes Preferences:

Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences.
Mac: Choose iTunes > Preferences.

Location of iphone backup files in Mac system:
Users/ [username]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

Location of iphone backup files in Windows system:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backups

2. Create manual backup: You can create manual backup of iphone data in the case iTunes are unable to create backup.

But if you are unable to create backup for iphone data you my use iPhone backup software. This software easily and automatically creates backup of all the data stored in IPhone and saves them at specified location. It will resolve “cannot backup error” from iTunes completely and efficiently creates backup of iphone data.