Q: Settings from iPhone to new iPad

You already know what to do - restore from the backup of the phone. You will have to remove whatever content from the iPad that you do not want on it from the phone.

I can't imagine that the phone's backup is really that large. The backups don't contain any media - just app data and settings, the email and text messages, Safari history, calendar entries, contacts, notes, etc. - but if you have a ton of photos and some videos in the Camera Roll - that could take up a fair amount of space in the backup. No purchased content is included in the backup and that is where most of the storage capacity is taken - apps, music, Movies, TV shows, books - and of course synced photos can take up a fair amount of space - but none of those things are in the backup.

James ...l the email accounts themselves are backed up but not the messages. However, the iMessages are backed up. My post was inaccurate - I typed email and text messages but meant email account settings and text messages. You can read about what is backed up here.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946

Having said all of that - I have restored from backups several times in the past and I'm pretty sure that the email messages downloaded again from the server - except for any messages that I had deleted.

Did you launch mail since you restored and try to get the messages to download again? According to the support article - The iMessages should be in the backup.

Maybe I am getting a little confused now myself. Did you do a complete backup of the phone with iTunes yet? Assuming that the iPhone is up to date with all of your content - and that would have to be a pretty good assumption since that is the device that you have been using all along.

Connect the phone to your computer and launch iTunes. If you use automatic syncing - that's fine - go ahead and sync. Don't disconnect the phone after the sync completes. Right click on the phone name on the left side under the devices heading and select - Transfer Purchases from XXX's iPhone. Let the transfer process complete. Then right click on the phone name again and select - Backup. Let the process complete and eject the phone.

This should now be the most up to date backup that you can have for the phone and when you restore the iPad from the backup - the settings and data SHOULD appear on the iPad. The email accounts should be on the iPad, the iMessages, all app data and app settings and all of the other stuff that the article spelled out.

If you backup with iCloud - that restoring process is just a little different. However, if you are syncing the calendar, notes, bookmarks - all of that stuff from iCloud - all of that should sync to the iPad if you set up iCloud on the iPad as well.

I was trying to do the same and came across this....

Way down at the bottom of http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946 I found this tidbit:

Learn more

Only app data from App Store apps and sync settings will be restored to your device when you do the following:

    Restore your iPad from an iPhone or iPod touch backup.

    Restore your iPhone or iPod touch from an iPad backup.

So it looks like you can't do what you (and I ) want to do. 

James would have found that really useful ,two years ago when he asked the question

Maybe he posted it to help people like me who just googled this problem and arrived here.