Restore a backup from a 3GS on iOS5 to a new 5S on iOS 7?

[clueless78]

I currently have an iPhone 3GS which is on iOS 5. My new iPhone 5S should be here any day, my plan was to restore a back up from the old phone straight onto the new phone but can I do this considering they are on different iOS versions?

I did try a search but nothing similar came up so apologies if this is a repeat question.

 

[TheSchmuck]

Did you have any luck?

I'm about to go through a similar excerise myself (iPhone 4 running iOS5 has had the screen die and my phone contract runs out this month, so I can choose to get an iPhone 5s).

Did your text messages and other personal data restore ok on to your new phone? (text messages are the only ones I'm really worried about - everything else I could sync in from some other source if I needed to).

Cheers

Daniel

 

[daxiel22]

Yes, I did the same thing without any problem.

 

[iamMacPerson]

You shouldn't run into any problems, but then again you are using an iOS version that it out of date.

 

[TheSchmuck]

Yes, I did the same thing without any problem.

Hi Daxiel ... so you jumped straight from an iOS 5 backup to an iOS 7 phone? (just to be sure on the specifics). (i.e. your iPhone 4 wasn't running iOS 6 or iOS 7 ?)

You shouldn't run into any problems, but then again you are using an iOS version that it out of date.

Indeed - that's what I'm concerned about - and specifically that iOS 5 is *two* versions behind iOS 7. I would expect an iOS 6 backup to restore fine onto iOS 7 (since as I understand it, that's how an upgrade works).

Still, I guess there's a good chance that the reason Google doesn't turn up much info about restoring older backups onto newer versions of iOS is that it just works without problems

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

It'll work just fine. Even iOS3/4 restores to 7 should work, in theory. Haven't seen that yet, but it should. If anyone has an old iPod or iPhone with iOS 3, it'd be nice to test that and restore to an iOS 7 device.

It's the same idea as migrating from Leopard to Mavericks. It works.

Hi Daxiel ... so you jumped straight from an iOS 5 backup to an iOS 7 phone? (just to be sure on the specifics). (i.e. your iPhone 4 wasn't running iOS 6 or iOS 7 ?)




Indeed - that's what I'm concerned about - and specifically that iOS 5 is *two* versions behind iOS 7. I would expect an iOS 6 backup to restore fine onto iOS 7 (since as I understand it, that's how an upgrade works).

Still, I guess there's a good chance that the reason Google doesn't turn up much info about restoring older backups onto newer versions of iOS is that it just works without problems

 

[TheSchmuck]

It'll work just fine. Even iOS3/4 restores to 7 should work, in theory. Haven't seen that yet, but it should.

Great, thanks "koolaid". Well, off to buy a new phone tomorrow I s'pose. RIP iPhone 4.

 

[clauzzz203]

What could be possibly that important to you in that backup to force you tu use it on a new phone and os? enjoy your problems and sluggishness.

 

[zorinlynx]

What could be possibly that important to you in that backup to force you tu use it on a new phone and os? enjoy your problems and sluggishness.

I've been using the same configuration (never doing a fresh restore) since iOS 4, on my iOS 7 iPhone 5, and there's no problems.

Sluggishness and problems can usually be traced to specific apps.

 

[Apple blogger]

I currently have an iPhone 3GS which is on iOS 5. My new iPhone 5S should be here any day, my plan was to restore a back up from the old phone straight onto the new phone but can I do this considering they are on different iOS versions?

I did try a search but nothing similar came up so apologies if this is a repeat question.

You can do it without any problems .. Just go ahead and do it

 

[daxiel22]

Hi Daxiel ... so you jumped straight from an iOS 5 backup to an iOS 7 phone? (just to be sure on the specifics). (i.e. your iPhone 4 wasn't running iOS 6 or iOS 7 ?)

Sorry, i didn't read the iOS 5 thing...
My 3GS had iOS 6 installed. An iOS 5 backup should also work, but you can always update it...

 

[brilliantthings]

When I did this from iphone 4 ios 6 to iphone 5 ios 7, itunes said the backup was corrupted. The way I fixed this was to delete all old backups and do a single fresh backup of the old phone. Might be a good idea before you reset your old phone.

 

[TheSchmuck]

Thanks all for your replies / tips.

For anyone else wondering the same thing as me (can you buy a new iPhone and carry over your settings and messages from a phone running a version of iOS two - or maybe more - versions older) then I can confirm that you can.

Updated iTunes (was still using an older version which didn't properly recognise the iPhone 5s), plugged the new phone in and restored my last iPhone 4/iOS 5 backup onto it and everything transferred over to the new iPhone 5s/iOS 7: Notes, Text Messages, Contacts, choice of Ring-Tone / Home and Lock screen backgrounds etc ... all completely hassle free.

Apps didn't come over immediately with the restore (even though the position of the built-in apps on the home screens did), but after updating to iOS 7.0.6 (which I gather performed a regular synchronisation in the process) all my apps came across too.

Cheers all.