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Jun 14, 2014 6:43 PM in response to Davisumarby dominique99,Davisumar wrote:
Assuming that you are running the same iOS on both devices ..... Do you use iTunes? Transfer purchases from the iPhone into iTunes, backup the iPhone, and sync the phone again. Connect the iPad to iTunes, restore from the backup of the phone and then sync with iTunes.
iPhone only apps will appear in their native size on the iPad screen but they will work.
Restoring from the backup will place all of the app data, device settings and documents onto the iPad but you still have to sync with iTunes in order to place of the apps and your other media onto the device.
if you use iCloud only, restore the iPad from the backup of the phone and that will take care of everything.
Some useful and informative information here.
The links in your post are fraudulent. They do not link to Apple support at all.
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Jun 14, 2014 6:37 PM in response to dominique99by stevejobsfan0123,Wow, good catch dominique99. I'll report that to the mods.
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Jun 14, 2014 6:40 PM in response to stevejobsfan0123by Meg St._Clair,stevejobsfan0123 wrote:
Wow, good catch dominique99. I'll report that to the mods.
The spammers keep getting more clever..... Sigh. One more thing to watch.
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Jun 14, 2014 6:42 PM in response to Meg St._Clairby stevejobsfan0123,I can give you a link on how to deal with spammers, but you'll have to fill out a short survey first
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Jun 14, 2014 6:54 PM in response to stevejobsfan0123by Meg St._Clair,stevejobsfan0123 wrote:
I can give you a link on how to deal with spammers, but you'll have to fill out a short survey first
I can only imagine the sort of survey you might create!
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Jul 4, 2014 1:06 AM in response to AntonBVby roxan,The IOS 7.1.2 update has crashed my ipad and the only option left was to restore.
I had done a fresh backup in itunes , but unfortunately didn't click "save purchase" recently . After 3 hours of "restore from itunes backup", I noticed that the "recentely" puchased apps are not restored: only the apps available in iTunes (doing an older "save purchase" action) were restored.
My question was then: was the appdata still backup for the app that were on my ipad but were not yet "transferred purchase" in iTunes? If it was the case, I could download those apps back from the iPad or from ITunes ...
( My main problem was for GoodReader: I had plenty of valuable files there. But as GoodReader moved to a new app in the appstore, and I had deleted the old goodreader from my ipad ...the whole thing was apparentely when restoring. )
Now comes the good news: yes, the apparentely missing data had been backup despite the fact that the corresponding application was not reinstalled by iTunes (because I hadn't save the purchases in iTunes recentely) ...
The proof? By redownloading the applications straight from the iPad, I could recover in fact the app data (that had been restored ...without the app)! I am thus very happy.
I am still puzzled by something: it means that it people restore a backup but never redownload some of the apps that had been "save purchase in Tunes" ....this may take some iPad memory for nothing, hidden somewhere. Forever? I don't know. No clue if there is a way to see which data exists for missing apps.
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Oct 10, 2014 6:43 PM in response to KiltedTimby Martin M.,I backed up my complete iPad (running iOS 7) before an exchange at the Apple Store. I got a replacement with iOS 8 on it. I restored from Backup but not all data came back:
1. I assumed that my downloaded maps in UlmonPro (CityMaps2G) were backed up but after restore the app had no maps.
2. The same happened to Readdle Documents - none of my videos and PDFs where there.
3. Same with VLC - I had 3 directories with tons of videos, now empty.
Is this normal?
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Oct 20, 2014 3:05 PM in response to deggieby cypherx,Does anyone know if this procedure still works with IOS 8?
http://www.macworld.com/article/1159917/ios_restore_folders.html
Basically I want to restore to a new phone but not lose all the app organization. I guess I could just leave the apps strewn all about randomly on various pages and simply use Spotlight for everything, but I like having folders with apps in their proper categories.
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Oct 20, 2014 4:14 PM in response to cypherxby cypherx,cypherx wrote:
Does anyone know if this procedure still works with IOS 8?
http://www.macworld.com/article/1159917/ios_restore_folders.html
Basically I want to restore to a new phone but not lose all the app organization. I guess I could just leave the apps strewn all about randomly on various pages and simply use Spotlight for everything, but I like having folders with apps in their proper categories.
Nope doesn't work.
Not really sure what a restore from backup does exactly. I still have to enter my icloud username / pw, wifi name and password, my favorites in the phone app are not set, none of my folders are there, and I had to manually check off like 100 apps in itunes and sync them, and they are thrown around random pages. Also my apps do not remember any of their settings. I have to go on my PC and look up all my various app passwords and enter them into things like Pandora, Waze, tapatalk, facebook, linkedin, etc...
The only thing it really did was name the new phone the same as the old phone.
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Oct 20, 2014 5:11 PM in response to cypherxby KiltedTim,cypherx wrote:
Basically I want to restore to a new phone but not lose all the app organization.
Restoring as a new phone means no apps are installed. You would have to reinstall the apps either by re-downloading them from the app store or by re-syncing them from iTunes...
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Oct 21, 2014 12:32 AM in response to cypherxby Lawaisal,cypherx wrote:
Does anyone know if this procedure still works with IOS 8?
http://www.macworld.com/article/1159917/ios_restore_folders.html
Basically I want to restore to a new phone but not lose all the app organization. I guess I could just leave the apps strewn all about randomly on various pages and simply use Spotlight for everything, but I like having folders with apps in their proper categories.
Hi cypherx. You seem pretty knowledgeable about matters regarding iPhone backups. I have an issue with mine that I posted a question on recently. Do you mind checking out my discussion and letting me know how I might be able to retrieve a missing backup? Thanks in advance!
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Oct 22, 2014 5:05 AM in response to KiltedTimby cypherx,It was a new phone, not restore as a new phone. To be honest, I don't think I had that option. I just installed a new screen on a broken iPhone 5 at work. Started using it, and when I got home where my iTunes backup is, I plugged it in and did the restore, but to tell you the truth it never asked me if I wanted to restore it as a new phone or not.
Now I know what screen you are talking about because some iPhone 6's came in and when you plug in those, it does walk through the activation and then iTunes asks to restore it along with a drop down with all the different phone backups you have, or restore it as a new phone.
The reason I have some experience with this is because at work our corporate issued phones are iPhones and the employees that have them like Executives, Management, IT, etc... require them for e-mail. We choose the Apple platform over Android because of the walled garden nature of approving apps, and with MaaS360 MDM we can enforce that they are compliant, which is very important on a device that can access company resources.
I'm thinking after going back and re-reading what I wrote, I should have done a factory reset on the iPhone 5 when I got home in order to get to the activation screen, then perhaps iTunes would have asked me if I want to restore it as a device I had backed up or new device.
I have a 6 plus on order, but don't expect that to ship for another 2 weeks or so.
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Jan 15, 2015 8:48 AM in response to cypherxby Elie12587,I'm having problems on all this back up and restoring ..i need some help ASAP