Why is Apple's backup/restore process with iCloud and iTunes so confusing?

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  1. TH55, May 18, 2017

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    Apple gets a lot of stuff right but they make the easy stuff unnecessarily complicated, it's so annoying. I just did a backup of my 6 in iTunes and when I restored my 6S from backup none of the contacts were there. Why the hell can't I have my contacts saved on both my phone and iCloud??
     
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  2. ANTAWNM26, May 18, 2017

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    Hmmm to be honest you only named one issue. I have been on Android and iPhone and apple backup restore is leap years ahead of Android and I'm typing from a Samsung Galaxy s8 plus. I'm not getting what you mean as to how bad apple have it when it comes to backing up and restoring
     
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  3. joeblow7777, May 18, 2017
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    I've restored each of my iPhones from a backup of the previous, and always had all the same content appear on the new phone, except for music which I had to re-sync from my iTunes library. I've never lost any contacts as far as I can tell.
     
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