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Transfering keyboard shortcuts from iPhone to iPad

I have an iPhone 4S with about 1k (no I'm not really exaggerating) keyboard shortcuts I've made since I got the phone a few months ago (any time I misspell something I make a keyboard shortcut, for example if I accidentally type "neighborhoo" and misstype the "d" I make a shortcut). I am thinking of buying an iPad 2 and would like to xfer all of them to the iPad 2 and not have to redo them all. Is this possible? I know I could restore the iPad with the iPhone backup but that seems weird considering that the iPhone has a bunch of stuff on it that wouldn't work on the iPad (like Omnifocus which isn't universal).

iPhone 4S, iOS 5

Posted on Dec 19, 2011 5:50 PM

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Dec 19, 2011 7:00 PM in response to Matthew110607

iPod Touch and iPhone apps will work on the iPad (assuming the the iPad is running the relevant OS needed for those apps) even if they are not universal apps, but they will only work in the iPhone native size. You will be able to enlarge the app on the screen by tapping on the 2X in the corner of the app but it will be pixelated and in lower resolution and it looks kind of crappy on the iPad screen. I hate the way that iPhone and iPod apps look on my iPad - but they will work.


When you restore one device from a backup of another device - you will restore the exact settings from the one device to the other. It will change your network settings, bookmarks, notes, calendars, Safari history, app data, app settings, email messages, camera roll and all of the data that the backup contains. Of course - if you sync all of that stuff and you want all of the same settings and all of that other stuff on all devices then you are OK.


If you restore the iPad from the backup of the phone and then backup the iPad again, it will save all of that app data and all of the settings in the iPad's backup.

Transfering keyboard shortcuts from iPhone to iPad

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