HT201274: Erase all content and settings on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch
Learn about Erase all content and settings on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple WatchQ: my iphone 5 was stolen. I had it black listed. It was backed up in the cloud. today i have activated my husbands old iphone 4 with ... my iphone 5 was stolen. I had it black listed. It was backed up in the cloud. today i have activated my husbands old iphone 4 with the stolen iphone number. can i update this phone, called "husband", with my stolen phone's, called "Wife", cloud backup? more
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Jan 27, 2014 5:53 PM in response to portery99by Lawrence Finch,You can restore the backup as long as the old phone you are restoring to has the same or later version of iOS as the stolen phone.
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Jan 27, 2014 5:56 PM in response to portery99by Allan Sampson,Yes.
Restore the iPhone with iTunes and when prompted to restore from a backup, you can select your iCloud backup for your iPhone 5. This is assuming your iPhone 5 was running iOS 7 and when restoring the iPhone 4 with iTunes iOS 7 will be installed.