Restore only selective data from a backup

I want to restore the data from a game I backed up on my iPhone 8 that I broke, to the iPhone 7 that I’m using now.

Is this possible because I can’t restore the whole backup as the iOS is not compatible to fetch entire iPhone 8 backup back to iPhone 7, so I’m hoping I can just select the game part I want not rest that’s incompatible.

iPhone 7, iOS 15

Posted on Jun 17, 2023 4:58 PM

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Posted on Jun 17, 2023 5:26 PM

There is no supported means to restore part of an iPhone backup. The whole thing gets restored. And a backup cannot downgrade iOS versions, as you have found here.


If the game uses Game Center, or uses iCloud, or uses the app vendor’s own servers, that data is not stored locally, and that data can be corrupted. Or in this particular case, might still be available on an older iOS version newly-downloaded and newly-connected to saved data in Game Center or iCloud or vendor servers.


Check with the app vendor for game-save details here, too.

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Jun 17, 2023 5:26 PM in response to RobinSouthard81

There is no supported means to restore part of an iPhone backup. The whole thing gets restored. And a backup cannot downgrade iOS versions, as you have found here.


If the game uses Game Center, or uses iCloud, or uses the app vendor’s own servers, that data is not stored locally, and that data can be corrupted. Or in this particular case, might still be available on an older iOS version newly-downloaded and newly-connected to saved data in Game Center or iCloud or vendor servers.


Check with the app vendor for game-save details here, too.

Jun 17, 2023 5:32 PM in response to MrHoffman

Looks like I’m going to have to repeat the last 7 levels then. Time consuming to say the least. It’s putting me off even going on the bloody thing any more. It’s only stupid truck simulator game but I took hours and about 4million repetitive clicks and adverts being watched to get to that stage so seems like too much effort to go through it all again.

Thanks for information though, thought I would ask the question first before giving up.

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