Prevent from losing data?

[lovewd]

I'm wondering what the best solution is to keep my data from iOS 7. I know I'm going to end up restoring to iOS 7, but I don't want my iOS 7 backup to be replaced by the iOS 8 one because I don't want to lose my stuff so how do I prevent this from happening?

 

[C DM]

Backup to your computer before updating to iOS 8 and that will be you your last iOS 7 backup that you can use.

 

[lovewd]

Backup to your computer before updating to iOS 8 and that will be you your last iOS 7 backup that you can use.

I already updated to iOS 8....anything else I can do?

 

[C DM]

I already updated to iOS 8....anything else I can do?

You have any backups from iOS 7, either locally on some computer or remotely in iCloud?

 

[lovewd]

You have any backups from iOS 7, either locally on some computer or remotely in iCloud?

I've backed up to iCloud a bunch of times when I was on iOS 7

 

[C DM]

I've backed up to iCloud a bunch of times when I was on iOS 7

So you should have an iOS 7 backup there then. Make sure that your iCloud backup is disabled in iOS 8 (and hopefully that it hasn't backed up there since you upgraded to iOS 8).

 

[PNutts]

I already updated to iOS 8....anything else I can do?

If you haven't already made an iTunes backup in iOS 8 your iOS 7 backup (if you had one) will still be there. There's a chance iOS 8 will start a new backup and not overwrite the iOS 7 one. For both of those cases I'd copy the backup files to a secure location.

Similar for iCloud backups. As C DM said You either haven't backed up in iOS 8 and still have your iOS 7 backup or you backed up with iOS 8 and your iOS 7 backup is gone.