Apple released the iOS 9 public beta on Thursday. Before you hurry to install it, you should backup your iOS device using iTunes. Why back up? Beta software is bound to be buggy and may suffer from performance issues. If you find you cannot live with the iOS 9 beta and want to downgrade to a current, stable version of iOS, you’ll need a working backup to restore from.
You cannot restore your iOS device from a backup in iCloud, so when you create a backup using iTunes you must also archive it to create a local copy.
Here is how you archive an iOS backup using iTunes:
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