iPhone How to clean my iPhone backups/jailbreak

[lellis2k]

So my phone is currently running a 5 year old 'profile' in that I had the first iPhone and have restored from backups with every new phone i get (as I like having all my photos text etc from all those years).

The problem is that it seems to be making my phone sluggish, I got 2 new iphone fours and restored my backup to one of them, did several tests and the one with my stuff on just runs slower all-round.

How can I keep my photos, texts, contacts (and possible a few app's data) but maybe clean everything else out?

Also with everything being sandboxed what could actually be causing this slowdown?

Thanks,

Leigh

 

[dhlizard]

Instead of restoring to a backup, use the tabs in iTunes to restore content only (contacts, ringtones, music, movies, books, photos)

 

[lellis2k]

thought as much, so I'd lose all my texts and the photos would move out of camera roll, would the photos also not appear on the photos map?

 

[dhlizard]

Texts can be saved manually using one of many apps available.
Photos on camera can be saved to PC/Mac

 

[BumpyFlatline]

OP, for app store app data like game saves, to-do list apps, etc I always use AppBackup. I highly recommend it. It's only for app store app data though. More comprehensive tools exist like iBye and PkgBackup. If you want step by step instructions for AppBackup, I laid them out in a post over here...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1439195/