iTunes and iCloud

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  1. IVRnJgr, Apr 27, 2014

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    Is it important that I connect my iPhone to iTunes?

    Why do I need to register my iPhone through iTunes? A pop-up shows up.

    What are the things that the iTunes can do that the iCloud cannot do?

    Can I restore to an older firmware using iCloud? For example I downloaded an older firmware, because I want to downgrade, the iTunes has an option where you can choose the older firmware you downoaded then restore to it, can iCloud do this?
     
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  2. jer04, Apr 27, 2014

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    If you want a full local backup (including music and everything), you would wanna use iTunes unless you have iTunes Match and icloud backup. Restore from icloud is painfully slow if you have a lot of stuff.

    The registration on iTunes is just to link the phone to your Apple ID.

    No you cannot install a previous version of ios via icloud. For that matter, depends on how old the firmware is, you might not be able to install it from iTunes either.
     
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  3. IVRnJgr, Apr 27, 2014

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    I saw a video where he downgraded his 5s from 7.1.1 to 7.1 using a downloaded firmware from the internet and restoring it using iTunes by choosing the older firmware that he downloaded. Is this possible for the iCloud?
     
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  4. Tyler23, Apr 28, 2014

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    You cannot downgrade a 5s. The video is fake.
     
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  5. jer04, Apr 28, 2014

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    icloud is not an online version of iTunes, the purpose of icloud is to backup and restore contents, so no, it's not possible. All the firmware upgrade/reinstall must be done thru OTA or iTunes.
     
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  6. Tyler23, Apr 28, 2014

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    Correct - and even then, there's no way to downgrade a 5s.
     
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