Best way to transfer contents of iPhone 4 to iPhone 5? Sorry if this is a dumb?? tia

[wadawow]

thanks

[scwinsett]

Originally Posted by wadawow

thanks

Restore the iPhone 5 from a previous backup using either icloud or itunes

[menist]

Backup your Iphone 4 via itunes and restore to your Iphone 5.

[wadawow]

to the backup? everything will transfer?

[BuckDot]

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[dxxjhk]

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[Aezr]

The best way is to use iTunes or iCloud. Follow these steps to back up your previous device and then restore the backup to your newly purchased device. Your saved messages, email accounts, photos, notes, and other personal settings will be transferred to your new device. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109
If you want to transfer sms messages only, this iphone 4/4s sms to iphone 5 transfer tutorial may help.

[chrisvee]

iCloud is the way to go.

On your iPhone 4: Settings > iCloud. Use your Apple ID/iCloud account to log in. Flick the Contacts switch, and your contacts should save onto iCloud.

Do the same thing on the 5 and voilà - you should have your contacts.

[mattopotamus]

some crazy responses. Just back the phone up to icloud and restore from backup on the new phone. When you are going through the set up process it ask you if you want to set the phone up as new or restore from a backup. You do not nee itunes at all or anything hooked up.

[mjpearce023]

I always setup my phone as new and sync everything from iCloud/iTunes. If you have iCloud setup on the 4 then contacts and emails and notes should already be on the new phone. Then just sync with itunes to get your pictures and music on the new phone. It seems like restoring a new phone from a backup causes more problems than its worth. I have seen quite a few people have battery issues when doing that. I also just like starting fresh. Keeping all your text on your phone just waste space and keeping pictures in your camera roll can slow down your camera. I got to a point where I had 1000 pictures in my camera roll and it would take over a minute to save a video after recording it.

[ribbon]

one question about this: i'm concerned of restoring my iphone 5 using my backup in icloud, but i'm afraid of copying "trash", meaning some unnecessary stuff coming from the iphone 4 (apart from my contacts) that could make my new phone work slower than if i did a full restore.

what do you think?

thank you.

[nlkccom]

I would usually do a backup and restore, but this time when I got my 5, I set it up as a new phone. Perfect time to do some house cleaning on apps.

[eveaibear]

Here is a step-by-step guide to transfer contacts from iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G to iPhone 5. It also applies to transfer SMS, music, video, meno, photos, ringtones, etc from iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G to iPhone 5.

You can follow this guide to recover iPhone content from iTunes backup or directly from iPhone device

[johannar]

If you're phone is running iOS 5.0 or iOs 6.0 then look no further and try iCloud else utilities like imacsoft iPhone to computer transfer. I've heard a lot about Copytrans too.

[ladytonya]

iCloud does no good if you have over 5GB of stuff on your phone unless you want to pay for additional space. I always back up to my computer, just don't trust the cloud! I have iTunes Match so my music is stored in the cloud but all my other date are just backed up to my laptop.

The question I have is setting up as a new phone vs. restoring from my last backup. I have read that it's best to set up as new and then sync, is that what most of you do? When I went from 3GS to 4 I just restored from backup but I've had this 4 for a lot longer and have a lot more data on it than I ever had on my 3GS. Which option is better?

[Extremeory]

To transfer photos, contacts and apps from one iPhone 4 to iPhone 5:

1. Connect two iPhone to PC.

2. Choose the category list of iPhone 4 that you need to export files

3. Check the files that need to export in the Content Panel and click "Transfer file(s) from device to device" button

4. All the checked files from your iPhone 4 can be transferred to iPhone 5.

And there are two articles about transferring files from iPhone to iPhone:
How to transfer contacts from iPhone to iPhone
How to transfer music/photo files from iPhone to iPhone

[Krisrady]

iCloud is not available for iPhone 4. To transfer contacts from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5, you can go to Apple store or use third party software to transfer contacts by yourself.

[Ste Nova]

icloud works fine on a 4!!

[Interstella5555]

Originally Posted by Krisrady

iCloud is not available for iPhone 4. To transfer contacts from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5, you can go to Apple store or use third party software to transfer contacts by yourself.

Or just do a local backup and restore...not sure why everyone wants to make this more complicated than it needs to be.

[kwuoyy8]

If you want transfer contacts from one iPhone to another iPhone, you can do it with‘s iTunes Backup Manager export/import feature.
Actually you can transfer contacts files from iPhone to iPhone directly.
- Connect two Devices to PC.
- Choose the category list of one device that you need to export files.
- Check the files that need to export in the Content Panel and click "Transfer file(s) from device to device" button.
- All the checked files from one device can be transferred to the other one.

[ASshley]

iTunes can back up everything except for data that came from a computer.

That means apps not authorized on your iTunes, music from a computer and pictures not taken on the device (stored in the camera roll) are not backed up. Assuming you don't need to recover that information, just back up the devices and archive the iTunes backup folders so you can re-load those backups on another comparable device from a PC or a Mac.

[Mckee]

You may try the "restore and backup" function on iTunes. Made a bakup for your iPhone 4 first and then restore your iPhone 5 from the iPhone 4' backup files.

[Chrissnald]

Karen, try using something like copytrans Contacts to:

1. Transfer the contacts form your iPhone 4 to your computer
2. Transfer the contacts from your computer back to your new iPhone 5.

[LV426]

As a few people have said above, restoring from iCloud is far and away the simplest way of doing things. No mucking about with cables or computers is required.

I did exactly this with a broken iPad a few months ago (the fact that it's an iPad rather than an iPhone is neither here nor there).

When Apple gave me a new iPad to take home, I fired it up, put in my Apple Id, and asked it to restore from iCloud. It took a few hours to complete, but when it was done my new iPad was more or less a clone of the previous one before it broke.