iPhone 7 - Are you restoring from backup?

[Arnezie]

Backup for me never had an issue. Now if I was going from a 3GS to the 7 maybe but all my apps are updated and iOS is updated so can't foresee an issue.

 

[perkedel]

Put your pictures in iCloud then they will move over.

I do use it. You will need to redownload the storage optimized or the full size all of them again. For some, it's not a big deal. When you have gigs of them, takes longer.

 

[archer75]

I never restore from a backup. Everything I have is in the cloud anyways and i'd rather set a phone up as new.

 

[wgr73]

256gb and setting up as new, then carving out new options, settings, photos, music....ya, NO. Restoring from backup as I have since iPhone 1

 

[Mlrollin91]

Selective restore would be cool. I used to start fresh but now I'm not losing a year+ worth health and activity data. Also, so many passwords and other things to worry about as well that an encrypted backup makes so easy.

In many ways it is easier to start fresh though, with iCloud Photo Library and Apple Music / Library for example.

Check out activity decipher tool. Just stumbled upon it and apparently works really well for only saving health and activity. I'm going to create two backups, one using this tool and one regular. If the tool backup fails, I will restore the full backup. But looking forward to only restoring health.

 

[unglued]

This year I'm looking at starting as new iPhone. What's the best way to get my pictures from my 6S to 7? Would I just add them to iPhoto on my Mac then sync photos through iTunes?
Not bothered about messages etc, I appear to have almost 11gb of messages.

I believe iPhoto will do it all on its own maybe someone else here can confirm. But either way if you use iPhoto or iTunes I would do a test run to verify what format your photos will end up with.

I recall it stripping down to some other compressed format...maybe I'm thinking of videos not sure but you probably don't want to lose any raw quality photos sitting on the old phone.

 

[Big Stevie]

Im moving up from the iphone5 and have lots of unwanted data/apps so I'll be doing a clean install.

 

[Traverse]

I prefer clean installs, but then I lose my Health and Workout data.

 

[jk4lebron23]

Definitely going to restore, I've spent too much time perfecting my phone layout! haha

 

[elistan]

I'm restoring. It's how I've done every upgrade and I've had no issues.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I prefer clean installs, but then I lose my Health and Workout data.

Look at the activity decipher tool I mentioned earlier.

 

[Traverse]

I keep my phone clean and lean and have always used an encrypted backup to restore my new phone and never had a problem.

Choice is good but I do not have time to screw around with my phone for days to get it back where I want. Only way I would do a fresh install is if my current iPhone was a mess.

Do you update or restore from backup. I see little reason to restore from backup unless the update produces problems.

 

[Newtons Apple]

Do you update or restore from backup. I see little reason to restore from backup unless the update produces problems.

Update from a backup?

I have never had reason to update from a backup. Explain?

I use the cloud for backup nightly but also do a hard encrypted backup about ever two weeks.

I will use a fresh iTunes encrypted backup to restore my 7+.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Update from a backup?

I have never had reason to update from a backup. Explain?

I use the cloud for backup nightly but also do a hard encrypted backup about ever two weeks.

I will use a fresh iTunes encrypted backup to restore my 7+.

Then you're setting up from a back up. They mean a back up, rather than as new.

 

[Traverse]

Update from a backup?

I have never had reason to update from a backup. Explain?

I use the cloud for backup nightly but also do a hard encrypted backup about ever two weeks.

I will use a fresh iTunes encrypted backup to restore my 7+.

Sorry, I meant why not just updated to iOS 10 on your device instead of clean install iOS 10 and then restore from backup.

But I forgot we were discussing a new phone. I was thinking of people who would wipe and restore from backup their current device.

 

[joefrank64k]

Restore from backup, as I've done for every iPhone since the original.

Besides...I still have the very first pic I took with the original iPhone on my camera roll, I can't loose that precious bit of history

 

[Gathomblipoob]

Restore from backup, as I've done for every iPhone since the original.

Besides...I still have the very first pic I took with the original iPhone on my camera roll, I can't loose that precious bit of history

Ever thought of syncing the picture to your computer or the cloud?