Setting up iPhone as ‘New Phone’, but retaining Health Data

[Danorak81]

I think I know the answer to this, but here goes.

When my new phone arrives, I’d like to set it up as a new phone (contacts and messages are in the Cloud so they’ll restore as normal). I’ve had this really annoying bug since iOS 15 where Messages just doesn’t communicate with my Apple Watch: some contacts’ messages will ‘ping’ as they should, some just don’t deliver at all: they’ll display as a little dot on the app, but the phone doesn’t notify me, I guess because, it thinks the watch is telling me. Apple have tried to help or more than one occasion but no joy. The Watch has been restored and set up as new, but never the phone…

So, I’d like to set my phone up as new. All the essentials are in the cloud so I’ll get those downloaded. But, I have health and exercise/fitness data going back to early 2017 that I don’t want to lose. Is there anyway that I can retrieve this once my new phone is set up? I don’t want to transfer everything because I’d like to try and eradicate the bug that’s causing this to happen, but equally, I’ve got a lot of data that I don’t want to lose.

Any help appreciated!
Thank you,
Dan

 

[tor_2]

As far as I know, health data is synced with iCloud so even if you set up your phone as new, your data will be there. In addition, there are apps in the App Store that can help you with that.

 

[addamas]

Unless you disabled iCloud sync, Health app data is saved to icloud

Back up your Health data in iCloud on iPhone

Data in Health on iPhone is automatically stored in iCloud, and you can back up your Health data to your computer.

support.apple.com

 

[Danorak81]

Ah beautiful, that’s great-thank you. Just when I think I’ve got a handle on what’s being backed up on what and where, I get told something new.

So, just for clarification, this does mean that all of my Fitness and Activity data in the Fitness app will be downloaded back to my new phone, correct?

 

[tor_2]

Yes. Just check under your iCloud account that the Health info is being synced

 

[Danorak81]

Yes. Just check under your iCloud account that the Health info is being synced

Thanks: I *just* needed to double check 👍🏻