Should I update my old phone/backups before upgrading to iPone 5

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Should I update my old phone/backups before upgrading to iPone 5

I currently have an iPhone 4 and am looking to upgrade to the iPhone 5 in the (hopefully) not too distant future. I do have one pre-ordered, but besides that I just want to make sure all my back-ups are in order before I update. I have a lot of apps FILLED with important data.

Should I update my iPhone 4 to iOS6 before I get the new phone so that my iCloud and my PC's backup have iOS6 before restoring my files to the new phone? Does it even matter? I wouldn't want to restore from a back up onto my new phone and wind up running iOS5 on my new iphone 5 (if that's even possible).

Also, does anyone recommend restoring from a back up through PC over iCloud? The only reason I ask is because I'll be getting my phone in a physical store. I suppose I could try to restore from my iCloud back up there or wait until I am home later that day to restore from my PC. I heard that works better/takes less time than an iCloud restore. Any thoughts?

Thanks a lat!

Posted on Sep 17, 2012 8:12 PM

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AjaxOfSalamis

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Sep 17, 2012 8:22 PM in response to Matt Chach

Follow the setps in the article below to back up your data:

How to back up iCloud data: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4910

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randers4

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Sep 17, 2012 8:26 PM in response to Matt Chach

Restoring to an iTunes backup can be much faster than restoring to an iCloud backup. You won't need to update to iOS 6; you can restore your iPhone 5 from a backup made on a phone running an earlier version of iOS.

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Keiichi_K

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Sep 17, 2012 8:44 PM in response to Matt Chach

Better article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137

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Matt Chach Author

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Sep 17, 2012 8:47 PM in response to Matt Chach

Thanks guys for such prompt feedback. If I am lucky enough to pick it up on friday it'd be before I go in for work so I'll probably just suffer through the day without all my apps, etc, until I get home. If restoring from iCloud is anyhting like setting up iCloud (which took forever), that may be the best bet.

Thanks again.

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randers4

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Sep 17, 2012 8:49 PM in response to Matt Chach

You're welcome. Another consideration is that thousands if not millions of people will be trying to restore from their iCloud backup on Friday. It will probably be very slow.

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