Restore iphone 6 backup to an iphone 5s?

[jrm27]

Hi all,

My iphone 6 has crapped out. My cell antennae/radio just doesn't work anymore. So, I've got an old iphone 5s in the drawer. How do I migrate back to that sucker? Just pop my sim card in and restore from a previous iphone 6 backup? is that doable?

 

[eyoungren]

It's doable if you are roughly on the same version of iOS.

For instance if your iPhone 6 is on iOS 9 and your 5s is on iOS 9 or 10 you can do this.

But if your iPhone 6 was on iOS 10 say and your iPhone 5s was on iOS 7 then you could not restore from the backup. You would have to update your 5s to a version equal or higher to what you have on the 6.

In other words you cannot restore from a backup that is of a higher version than what is on the device you are restoring to.

 

[jrm27]

Thanks all! I appreciate the info.