I am trying to restore an iCloud backup made March 3, before having my iPhone 5S screen replaced. The only backup visible now is one done automatically the day the phone was retuned. How do I find the March 3 backup? Does the more recent backup overwrite the March 3 version?
Btw I have plenty of iCloud storage – approx. 140 GB.
iPhone 5s, iOS 12
Hello. Anytime your phone backs up to the cloud, the old backups are removed. If you had to re-setup the phone after getting the screen replaced then you may still have the old backup before you had to set it up again, but most likely you did not.
Hello. Anytime your phone backs up to the cloud, the old backups are removed. If you had to re-setup the phone after getting the screen replaced then you may still have the old backup before you had to set it up again, but most likely you did not.
carm147 wrote:
I am trying to restore an iCloud backup made March 3, before having my iPhone 5S screen replaced. The only backup visible now is one done automatically the day the phone was retuned. How do I find the March 3 backup? Does the more recent backup overwrite the March 3 version?
Btw I have plenty of iCloud storage – approx. 140 GB.
it gets overwritten when you create another backup.
This link might help... 👉🏼 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204215
Thank you for adding to this. I got the email and I said; yes and that... 👏🏼 👍🏼
Thanks! I tried this but still only see one backup. It looks like ramzee209 and Loganscott74 are right. The earlier backup was overwritten:-(
I wasn’t able to modify my reply. But yes, they are both correct. Whenever you backup to iCloud, it replaces the previous one.
How to find previous iCloud backups
