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Will you be setting up your new iPhone X as new or restoring from backup?

I would prefer to setup my phone as new, but doing so will make me lose my Apple Watch Activity data. To my knowledge, there's no way to just backup and restore the Activity data. So because of that, encrypted backup and restore it is for me.
 
Any advice... recently (past 4 weeks) I've been experiencing very very poor battery life. For example, 2-3 hours light web usage and offline music playback and I'm down to 50% on my iPhone 7.

I've checked with Apple, and all battery tests have passed fine. They state software issue and to set up from new.

Is it worth setting up my X tomorrow as new, or do you reckon I'd be fine with restoring from a backup?
 
susan12369 said:
I use iTunes for backup (whenever I've tried switching to iCloud, I always lose old calendar and contact information), and I always restore from backup so I don't lose Health data, texts/messages, etc. I think last time I did this (2 years ago) I waited until I got home, since iTunes is on my laptop at home, but tomorrow I'm debating installing iTunes on my work computer and doing it all at work so I don't have to wait...

And hoping that it can restore from encrypted backup without my needed to have remembered the password! Last week when I was backing up, I tried to change the encryption password and nothing worked, so I must've forgotten that old password. I followed Apple's instructions and reset all settings on my phone. According to their article HT205220, that should have removed my encrypted backup password so that I could connect to iTunes again and create a new encrypted backup. Except that it didn't. It created a lot of work for me to have to redo settings, but when I reconnected to iTunes, it still didn't let me create a new encrypted backup password. I don't care about accessing the old backups, I'd just like to be able to create a new encrypted backup...
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*UPDATE, 11/11/2017*:
I found a solution that works for me. I set up my phone as new, and then used 'iMazing' (app) to backup the old phone, backup the new phone, and then edit the new iphone's backup to include my OLD SMS from my 6SPlus. Then I restored the edited backup to my iPhone X. It worked like a charm. So now I have a newly setup phone, with 3+ years of texts incorporated! Happy.

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Hi All,
I would like to restore from backup, but iTunes is not playing nicely with my phone. Twice now, I have attempted to back up and although it went through the entire process, I received a message at the end saying not everything was backed up.

Since iOS 11 really (REALLY) screwed my iphone 6S Plus and turned it into a piece of turtle dung...so slow, jerky, unresponsive, apps not launching until the second attempt...I could go on. Anyway - I took a chance and 'restored' the phone from backup before the next few point upgrades to 11. There was some minor improvement to the phone functionality. Oh, and I did this connected via cable to my iMac, not via WiFi (since I thought that perhaps that could have been a factor in the initial upgrade).

My long-winded point, which I really am coming to, is: whatever is now wrong with my 6SPlus, I'm worried this will carry over to my new iphone X. I don't want to lose my texts, history, etc, but I feel like it might be the safest bet. Oh yeah, my Black 256GB X arrives tomorrow! I will want to set it up asap.

Can anyone help me here?
 
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New phone, just iCloud sync for photos.

I like going through every setting and sometimes finding something new lol
 
I’ve been struggling with this for weeks but I think I want to start fresh, definitely seeing as how I got a 64GB. I have all my things in the cloud and I don’t necessarily care about having them on my phone. Will manually copy contacts that I need and apps I want.
 
Restore from backup. I actually cleaned up my current phone today so the backup I restore from will be pretty much just what I use.
 
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I would like to setup as new, because I have a lot of apps to clean out and not have installed on my new X. So I don't mind setting it all up again.
However, I don't want to lose my health and apple watch health data..

So I need to confirm, does this health data sync with iCloud, and restore on a New iPhone, once I sign into iCloud on the X?
 
As new. With Apple Music and iCloud basically syncing all of my important information this is a great time to start fresh. Helps to rid my device of apps that I don’t frequently use and keep that new device feeling. If I need to replace the device through Apple Care in the future I will restore from backup.
 
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alanderp said:
New phone, just iCloud sync for photos.

I like going through every setting and sometimes finding something new lol
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How do I do that iCloud sync. I also want to set as new but to keep my current pics and videos. Do I upgrade the storage, move it and then go back to 5gb?
 
contacts from icloud rest setup as a new phone.

Restoring it kills the feel of a new phone :)
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
In the future, make sure to write down your passwords, or save them to a program like 1Password.
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I always do keep track of my passwords in an encrypted file (to which I definitely know the password), but for some reason this one isn't in it. Fortunately this morning when it prompted me for the password to restore from encrypted backup, one that I know I'd tried last week did work, so I was able to do it. Once I have everything setup, I'll do a new encrypted backup for the iPhone X and make sure I note that password!
 
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Is it possible to restore from a backup of a phone running iOS 10 on the iPhone X since it ships with 11 out of the box? My phone doesn't have enough space to update to 11.:(
 
jabz10 said:
I would like to setup as new, because I have a lot of apps to clean out and not have installed on my new X. So I don't mind setting it all up again.
However, I don't want to lose my health and apple watch health data..

So I need to confirm, does this health data sync with iCloud, and restore on a New iPhone, once I sign into iCloud on the X?
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I'll answer my own question, after a bit of searching, there seems to be a solution that I will try out to restore only Health and activity data :D
https://deciphertools.com/decipher-activity-transfer.html
 
tasha511 said:
Should I leave the new Sim card in or swap out my old one?
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I don’t know what provider you have but I always use my old one. That way I don’t have to activate the new sim card. I just power off my new phone, put in my old sim and power on. Verizon recognizes it automatically.
 
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