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Q: I made a backup of my iphone 5 on my laptop using itunes today.  I wanted to be able to restore an earlier version but can't.

I made a backup of my iphone 5 on my laptop using itunes today.  I wanted to be able to restore an earlier version but can't.  Beofre making my backup today, it used to say last backup: and then list two of them, one of which was what I want to use.  So I thought there would be a running list and now there isn't.  Can I not access that older version now?  All of my photos (3000+) were on my backup and now I don't know how else to access them because my phone died and I lost them from there.  But luckily, I had backed up my phone.  However, when I went to access them today, I couldn't figure out how.  So I started by backing up my phone again - just to be sure I didn't screw up anything.  Because it appears you can't open a backup but instead have to restore it to your phone.  Is there no other way to get to my photos???

iPhone 5, iOS 9.1

Posted on Nov 27, 2015 7:20 PM

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