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Will you be setting up your new iPhone X as new or restoring from backup?
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For the sake of discussion, I have tried several builds of Public beta software over the years (iOS 9 and iOS 10) from which i obviously updated to the final public release when it came out, Is there any step i need to take to perhaps "flush" any possibly corrupted settings files that might have gotten carried over from the beta versions over the years of software updates?
iCloud restore. Always.
I have been restoring from backup ever since iCloud backup was introduced. So like iPhone 5 or 5s, I dunno. But I get the new one every year, and always restore from backup. It’s the easiest and most convenient way to set up your phone. I don’t buy into the whole “starting fresh” thing. I don’t want to spend so many hours re-downloading and setting up all of my apps, going through my settings, etc etc etc... such an unnecessary hassle. Plus you lose all of your data. I like having my old texts, photos, all that stuff.
I have been restoring from backup ever since iCloud backup was introduced. So like iPhone 5 or 5s, I dunno. But I get the new one every year, and always restore from backup. It’s the easiest and most convenient way to set up your phone. I don’t buy into the whole “starting fresh” thing. I don’t want to spend so many hours re-downloading and setting up all of my apps, going through my settings, etc etc etc... such an unnecessary hassle. Plus you lose all of your data. I like having my old texts, photos, all that stuff.
I'm a big fan of Decipher Phone Refresh (https://deciphertools.com/decipher-phone-refresh.html). I used the free version for awhile and recently bought the full version. It lets you selectively restore just what you want.
For the record, I have no connection to this software or company other than using it and liking it enough to recommend.
For the record, I have no connection to this software or company other than using it and liking it enough to recommend.
No there is not. This is nothing but paranoia and placebo effects. Just like the people who think constantly “closing” all of their apps helps speed up their phone.
I always restore from iCloud backup (ever since it was introduce), and I never “close” any apps (except the instances where I want to force a specific app to restart). Yet never have any issues.
Tempted to set up as new, as I've been plagued by bugs relating to playing audiobooks for years and multiple devices. (It resets to playing music for no reason almost every time I start the book up after a pause, which is several times a day.) No evidence this will fix that, but I'm desperate. Makes me hate my iPhone sometimes, and I don't want to hate a device I just paid this much for.
But I'm not sure what all I'm going to break (lost app settings, game saves, etc.)
But I'm not sure what all I'm going to break (lost app settings, game saves, etc.)
I have about 80GB of photos on my 128GB iPhone 6 along with a bunch of apps that I never use. Battery life isn't great and the phone recently started to be very slow. I'll click on an app then wait for it to respond. I thought about setting the iPhone X up as new but there are a lot of good reasons posted here why I should restore it from a backup.
Yes, messages as well. There is absolutely no reason to setup as a fresh phone if you have a backup available. Any talk otherwise is complete nonsense.
There is no need to set up from scratch unless you have some sort of error, or you enjoy the placebo effect. It won't help you unless you have some sort of corruption with your backup.
What about freeing up memory? If your phone is sluggish and you see memory is highly used doesn't closing apps free up the memory and improve performance?
Apple's own task manager does all of this automatically. There is no need to force close an app unless it is malfunctioning, or you phone is malfunctioning or too old to handle things.
IIRC, there was an article that showed why manually force closing apps actually hurts overall performance.
No. iOS intelligently manages that for you. Force closing apps to free up memory is useless in iOS. It’s a common myth.