Q: How much can I backup from my old phone and restore to the one I plan to buy tomorrow?
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Aug 7, 2016 10:17 AMby LACAllen,(note LACAllen's post of information that Apple makes available to developers, not typical users like me).
Found that passage with a Google search. Publicly available data.
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/documentation/data-storage/index.html
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Aug 7, 2016 1:42 PMby gb-pdx,As I said, rather specifically at the beginning -
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Now that I want to upgrade from iPhone 4 to iPhone SE - how do I transfer my data? That is
- Pictures
- Alarms on my Clock
- Calendar entries
- Reminders
- Notes
- Voice Memos
- Safari bookmarks
- "places" on Maps
- Messages
- Contacts
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I am concerned about the NATIVE APPS that have stored data on our current phones. My memory is that the big chunks of data were lost the last time I trusted iTunes for a "full backup", and I want to make sure that I know what to do to save each of these items this time around. (If some data from purchased apps is restored, I will be pleasantly surprised.)
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Aug 7, 2016 1:44 PMby gb-pdx,One of the "geniuses" on the telephone told me that pictures are not backed up and restored via iTunes. My wife has a large "grandma's brag book" of pictures that she wants to move onto the new phone. That is why I feel that I am being forced into the cloud against my will.
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Aug 7, 2016 1:50 PMby gb-pdx,OK - so I am not sufficiently diligent with my searches. I said that APPLE did not make it available to the public - meaning thru the navigation and search functions on their own user-oriented web pages.
I rather expected to find answers to my questions on the SUPPORT section of the Apple website.
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Aug 7, 2016 1:54 PMby Michael Black,gb-pdx wrote:
One of the "geniuses" on the telephone told me that pictures are not backed up and restored via iTunes. My wife has a large "grandma's brag book" of pictures that she wants to move onto the new phone. That is why I feel that I am being forced into the cloud against my will.
Transfer the photos to the OS X photo program or your photo archive program of choice and then restore them to the new phone from that. I have several thousand photos on my iPhone and iPad, and over 25,000 on my MacBook Pro. I have none in iCloud.
You should be archiving your photos somewhere anyway for safe keeping (and iCloud is not an offsite archive for photos anyway so even if using iCloud one should be backing up photos somewhere).
