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iOS 10 beta to final
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I have a different question. I have a backup of iOS 9.3.5. Now i'm on iOS 10 PB7. When the final release comes out, i want to make a clean install. Will i able to use the 9.3.5 backup for iOS 10? Or do i have to make a new backup with PB7 then make a clean install and use backup? What do you suggest?
You can use a 9.3.5 backup to restore content to an iOS 10 phone. There is no reason this won't work, and tons of people do it. What you CANT do, it take an iOS 10 backup and restore it to an iOS 9 device.
Sweet thanks! So if I want to update to the actual final build I could see theoretically delete a profile right now?
That should be the case. If you delete it now, you may not get a GM seed if that happens next week though.
I'm in the same boat. So if I remove the beta profile and update to iOS 10 GM do I also have to remove the beta profile off my Apple watch to install watchOS 3.0 GM?
No thats not possible. When you restore an iPhone with an older backup its all or nothing.
You can't cherry pick in the backup what you want.
If the 9.3.5 is an archived backup in iTunes, it can be used to restore on iOS 10 and can be picked during a restore.
If there is no archived backup. Then only the most recent backup can be restored. If that's 9.3.5, then it will restore without issues.
You can definitely restore a 9.3.5 backup on iOS 10. It'll just show up under iCloud restores (or iTunes restores) and will work quite normally.
I don't know where you got the 'cherry-picking' thing from - nobody said anything about selecting what to backup, just backups in general.
For gods sake read his question. You can't use iOS 9.3.5 on to iOS 10.
Restore to iOS 9.3.5 but not transfer all information to iOS 10 version.
For gods sake read his question
Yes you goddamn can use a 9.3.5 backup to restore your 9.3.5 data in iOS 10
Please don't spread misinformation if you can't be bothered to do basic research. Restoring from an older iOS version's backup has been possible since the introduction of iCloud, and even before that in iTunes for many years.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...ken-from-a-previous-ios-version-or-is-there-a
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Why can't you use a backup from an earlier/older iOS version on a newer one? That's how it's petty much always been done when people upgrade.
This is a forum for beta so assume he uses a beta release and according to Apple "you might not be able"
That why i sad no just so don't do anything he will regret.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203282
They mean you cannot restore the beta's backup to a non-beta (IE: cannot restore an iOS 10 backup in iOS 9). The OP was asking whether they would be able to restore an iOS 9 backup to iOS 10, which is the other way.
I think it'd be a good idea for the OP to maintain a local iOS 9.3.5 backup, because if they do too many nightly backups on iOS 10, the iOS 9.3.5 backups get overwritten (usually after a few weeks).
I'm 100% sure you should still be able to restore a beta 8 or GM backup to final 10.0 release, but personally I'd rather use an official backup on an official release, just to avoid any potential debug stuff slipping through (not quite sure how the backup process works internally, but just in case).
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Lappen71 for LVP (least valuable player) lol.
Just to chime in with the others who are correct, you can indeed restore an iOS 9 backup to a device running iOS 10. You can always go up in number (lower to higher) but not down (higher to lower).
Just to chime in with the others who are correct, you can indeed restore an iOS 9 backup to a device running iOS 10. You can always go up in number (lower to higher) but not down (higher to lower).