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New iPhone: Restore from iCloud backup or use iTunes

BulkHedd

BulkHedd

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I will be receiving my new iPhone 6 tomorrow and I do not plan to set it up as a new phone. I had fairly recently restored my iPhone 5 as a new phone so I'm just going to restore from backup to the new phone.

I know that it takes quite a while to install all the apps from the iCloud backup so I'm thinking it would be better to do a backup to iTunes and then restore from that. It should go much faster I would think.

Any thoughts either way?
 
BulkHedd said:
I will be receiving my new iPhone 6 tomorrow and I do not plan to set it up as a new phone. I had fairly recently restored my iPhone 5 as a new phone so I'm just going to restore from backup to the new phone.

I know that it takes quite a while to install all the apps from the iCloud backup so I'm thinking it would be better to do a backup to iTunes and then restore from that. It should go much faster I would think.

Any thoughts either way?
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I always backup and restore in itunes. I like every thing back in place where I had it on my previous phone. It's always worked well for me in the past.
 
bigchief said:
I always backup and restore in itunes. I like every thing back in place where I had it on my previous phone. It's always worked well for me in the past.
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Yeah, when I restored my 5 as a new device I had not backed up to iTunes in a while so I had no choice but to use iCloud. I just crashed and would not get past the Apple logo. I waited like 20 minutes.

I remember it took hours to get everything downloaded again.
 
Well, phone arrived and I did the restore from iTunes, which only took a few minutes. But the apps are all installing from the Cloud. I thought iTunes would transfer them. When I backed up the iPhone 5 it asked if I wanted to back up all the apps and I did.

I'm still waiting for the activation from AT&T anyway so no big deal.
 
Now I have a problem. The iPhone 6 was restoring apps and did not show to be activated yet. I noticed that my iPhone 5 now showed No Service. I waited a few minutes and the iPhone 6 still also showed No Service so I decided to reboot it.

After rebooting the iPhone 6 activated on AT&T but now the app downloads are not continuing. Nearly all of my app icons are just showing as gray and "Waiting" with no progress wheels anywhere.

I don't know what to do.
 
BulkHedd said:
Now I have a problem. The iPhone 6 was restoring apps and did not show to be activated yet. I noticed that my iPhone 5 now showed No Service. I waited a few minutes and the iPhone 6 still also showed No Service so I decided to reboot it.

After rebooting the iPhone 6 activated on AT&T but now the app downloads are not continuing. Nearly all of my app icons are just showing as gray and "Waiting" with no progress wheels anywhere.

I don't know what to do.
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I'm having this same problem. Don't really have much more to say than that. Just wanted to point out that others are having the issue so there's obviously a problem with iTunes or a backup from a 5 to the new 6 or something else.

EDIT: I gave up and decided to set up the 6 as a new device. Looks like this may be more an issue with iTunes copying over data. It may be getting stuck at apps but it could be anything. I'll try again and this time will try copying over one type at a time as opposed to everything (e.g. photos first, then videos, yadda, yadda, yadda, and do the apps last).
 
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I tried doing the restore from backup again and it just ended up right back where it was. Most of the icons grayed out without the progress wheels. And no spinning gear at the top either.
How can I tell if they are actually downloading or not?
 
BulkHedd said:
I will be receiving my new iPhone 6 tomorrow and I do not plan to set it up as a new phone. I had fairly recently restored my iPhone 5 as a new phone so I'm just going to restore from backup to the new phone.

I know that it takes quite a while to install all the apps from the iCloud backup so I'm thinking it would be better to do a backup to iTunes and then restore from that. It should go much faster I would think.

Any thoughts either way?
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I prefer iTunes. It's faster and iCloud royally screws up my music and contacts.
 
I discovered that if I go to my purchased apps in the App Store and choose "Not on this phone" I can manually download them but it's tedious.
 
sonic625 said:
With the massive amount of restores I am betting the app downloads will be a bit slower the next few weeks.
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Most likely. I was hoping it would use the files I had locally but guess it was simpler that the process downloads them from the servers.
 
I am having a similar problem. Besides not being able to get my new phone to activate (thanks AT&T), I can't get my apps to reload. Also funny stuff going on with the amount of space being used on the device. It will show the spinning on both phone and iTunes but it will stick on an app. If I unplug it from the computer and reattach, it will usually load a couple of apps and then freeze with the spinning balls. Looks like iTunes has a problem.
 
I am having the same problem. Restoring from iTunes by copying Apps keeps getting stuck. Swapped sim cards but new iPhone still not working. I don't remember previous upgrades being this bad.
 
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