How to Turn off Time Machine on a Mac

Techwalla may earn compensation through affiliate links in this story. Learn more about our affiliate and product review process here.
Turn off Time Machine.
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple

Time Machine may not be useful for you if you don't have an external drive to store your backed up files or if you make manual backups of important files. You can turn it off in Settings -- and even after you've turned off the automatic backup function of Time Machine, you can still use it to back up your files manually.

Advertisement

Step 1

Choose "System Preferences."
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple

Click the Apple icon on the top left corner of the screen and choose "System Preferences" from the drop-down list.

Advertisement

Video of the Day

Step 2

Click "Time Machine."
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple

Click the "Time Machine" icon.

Advertisement

Step 3

Turn off Time Machine.
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple

Click the slider to turn off Time Machine.

Advertisement

Video of the Day

Advertisement

Advertisement

references & resources

Report an Issue

screenshot of the current page

Screenshot loading...