Can someone control my phone through my backup?

I made an iPhone backup on my computer, and when I'm not there, my parents can see everything if they download the backup from my phone to any phone (like photos and such).

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clownfish803
7 months ago

Well.

Control your cell phone, in the sense of remote control, they cannot, of course, because a backup is just a copy of the data currently on the device.

See the backup or its data is only possible for your parents under certain conditions.

You should have access to your PC. It also depends on whether you have encrypted the backup (e.g. protected with a password) and how you created it. If you have made it with an app provided for it, it will probably have created it in a format that can easily not be read in from other devices, especially from those with another operating system.

If you just copied the files, as pure files (i.e. photos for photos, documents for documents, etc.) over, you can view them, of course… also packaging into a ZIP file does not bring protection as long as you do not encrypt them.