iphone 5 and upgrading. Have ios7 + JB. Update before setup of 6+?

[Kevin22]

Currently I have an iphone 5 AT&T, ios7, and jailbroken. My new 6+ is set for delivery tomorrow and I was wondering if I needed to update to ios8 on this phone (ip5) before restoring the new phone (ip6+) for all of my contacts/pics/etc to transfer.
Thought I read somewhere that if you don't update to ios8 you will lose a lot of your data? May have read wrong though...

I don't want to update if I don't have to because of the fact that it's jailbroken and soon to be unlocked. Figured I would get more money for it when I try to sell it.

TIA
-Kevin

 

[eelw]

No need to update your 5. You can restore the backup safely to your new phone without needing to update to iOS 8.

 

[Intell]

You don't need to update your iPhone 5. Just connect your new iPhone to iTunes and restore from a backup or restore it from an iCloud backup.

 

[Kevin22]

And I won't lose my pics or anything? did they fix that bug already?
Great, Thank you