iCloud Backups on 6.0.1 on 6.1

[Mac Rules]

Hi All,

My iPhone died last weekend 🙁

It was backed up to iCloud whilst still running 6.0.1, during the time that my phone has been away Apple has release 6.1.

I have had previous experience of iOS 5 iCloud backups not being available to a different version of iOS.

Could someone confirm if their 6.0.1 backups were available to backup from and/or worked successfully?

I'm worried that they will upgrade to 6.1 and I will lose the ability to restore my phone.

Appreciate any help you can provide.

 

[DefBref]

Backups are backwards compatible. So as long as you are restoring to an iOS the same or newer than the backup version you will be fine.

I can only imagine the problem you havd in the past was trying to restore a newer backup to an older iOS version (backup 5.2 to 5.1 maybe)

It has to be like this or people would never be able to restore a backup of previous devices on new devices when they upgrade. I.e. iphone 3g is still on 4.2.2 but I could use the backup from that to restore to an iphone 5 on 6.1.

 

[Mac Rules]

Good point, cheers