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Restore iCloud back up to iPhone

Today I backed up my iPhone to iCloud before restoring. Now my iPhone is restoring from the Computer backup from 6 months ago, not from iCloud. How can I restore from today's iCloud backup?

Posted on Apr 24, 2012 7:06 PM

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Apr 4, 2014 2:10 PM in response to iancee

Hopefully someone can help with this little twist .... took my iPhone5 in for repair last week and ended up with a replacement phone. Set it all up and then plugged into iTunes where I had backed up the phone to both iCloud AND iTunes (I know - ye of little faith) but when I replied to the prompt to restore from back up found that the phone was IOS6.4 whilst my original was up at 7.1 .... so I have to set it up as a new phone .... when I do that then my backups (both iCloud and lTunes) have "disappeared" I have a bunch of 2013 back ups but the ones from last week (3/29/2014) are not showing .... iOS 7.1 is still downloading ... once thats installed should I reset the phone and try the restore from backup again or will my reset put it back to iOS6.4 ?????


Dont really want to restore all my mail accounts and local settings from scratch!!


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Sep 17, 2014 3:30 PM in response to randers4

So I have a question. I was updating my iPhone 5 to iOS 8 and all was going smoothly until right at the very end, where it said that there was an error. And then it tells me that my phone is in recovery mode, which I never put it in. And then it says that the only way I can connect to iTunes again is to restore my phone, however all my photos aren't backed up onto my computer. And I don't even want to connect to iTunes. The phone won't turn on and go back to normal until I connect to iTunes, but I have to restore everything to turn on the phone. See what happened was I decided to back up my photos and then update, so I backed up my photos, but what happened out of 1388 photos, only 533 managed to make it to the computer, even though I never specified which photos I wanted backed up, it just randomly selected 533 out of the whole bunch. Now not knowing that the computer screwed up somehow and only backed up 533 photos, I went ahead with the updating of my phone, and now I'm going to lose many vacation photos if I restore my phone. So, my question is, is there any way I could avoid having to restore the phone?

Restore iCloud back up to iPhone

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