Greetings, I'm awaiting delivery of my iPhone 6s on Friday I currently own an Android and iPad mini. I'm trying to prepare for a smooth transition so I already downloaded the "move to iOS" app for my android which will cover contacts, photos and such. My real question is on my iPad mini I have every app I would want and its accompanying settings so I don't have much patience or time to download every app individually. So would I be able to do an iTunes back up on my PC with my iPad and then when my 6s arrives restore it to the backed up iPad on iTunes? Thanks.
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Switching from Android/iPad to new iPhone 6s
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Just make sure the iPad backup and the iPhone are on the same iOS version and it should work fine.
jtrue28
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Anytime (and every time) I have attempted to restore from backup with my phone connected, it has NEVER given me the option to restore from an iPad backup. YMMV.
It's not too bad... You can go into the App Store, and view all the apps you've "purchased" (including free ones) and run through the list downloading them to your new phone.
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JFazYankees
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Yes, it will work, just not as smoothly as an iPhone-to-iPhone backup and restore. Ignore the one who said it won't work at all.
I just did this. I have an iPad mini which I backed up the day before. Then when setting up my new iphone 6 + I selected to set up from an iCloud account. This worked for about 90% of my apps. It did not download the apps that were not compatible .
I just set up an old iPhone 4 to use until I get a 6s (getting rid of my Samsung S5). It only took a few minutes to scroll through all the Apple apps that I've downloaded/purchased over the last however many years and tag the ones I wanted on my phone. Then just let it run in the background, downloading all the apps.
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