Can I do a carrier unlock of my iPhone 5 without losing all my data?
I have been searching through the forums on here and am only able to find information about restoring the iPhone after forgetting a passcode. This isn't the case.
When I had my iPhone 4 unlocked by my carrier a few years ago, I paid the fee and was instructed to restore my iPhone but NOT from backup. Of course, this meant I lost all of my contacts/pictures/messages etc. Once you instruct iTunes to restore am iPhone not from backup, it erases all the backups of your phone and starts anew.
I now have an iPhone 5 that is currently locked to Virgin Mobile Canada. I want to have them unlock it so I can use it with a different carrier during trips to the USA, but obviously I don't want to lose my data.
Is there any way to restore the iPhone as required for the unlock (that is, NOT from the backup,) and then afterwards be able to access the backup? I really don't want to lose everything again!
I've never had iTunes erase the backups. If it's deleting all your backups, something's wrong with your system. But in any case, Apple's instructions don't say to restore the iPhone without using a backup. They say to erase it, and then restore the backup:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5014
Regards.
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