I got a new iPhone a month and now I want to erase / restore to factory my old iPhone before selling or giving it away. I'm reading the instructions from Apple on how to erase my phone, but it tells you to back it up before logging out of iCloud. If I backup my old phone (that I haven't used for over a month) will it overwrite the iCloud content on my new phone?
iCloud has burned me in the past. Nervous about backing up an old phone.
You can perform all of the steps in What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
without affecting your new phone.
Also, if I had a new phone a month and had already transferred any data from my old phone that I wanted to keep, I would skip the backup of the old phone. Backing it up won't hurt anything but the next thing you might want to do would be to delete the backup from iCloud to free up some space there for use by your new phone. See: Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support
You can perform all of the steps in What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
without affecting your new phone.
Also, if I had a new phone a month and had already transferred any data from my old phone that I wanted to keep, I would skip the backup of the old phone. Backing it up won't hurt anything but the next thing you might want to do would be to delete the backup from iCloud to free up some space there for use by your new phone. See: Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support
Thanks, I was thinking the same thing about the backup at first, but then wasn't sure.
Will a backup of an old phone affect my new phone?
