Can't find photos after backup restore
Hey,
I recently began to use my iPhone 4S after using iPhone 4 for about a year. It's been working fine. I took some photos and sent some messages on the 4S over the past week. When I connected it to iTunes, I chose to restore from backup, as I wanted to transfer all of my contacts over. After around 10 minutes, it restored.#
When I went back on the 4S, I noticed that my message history from the last week was not present (only messages from when I was using the iPhone 4). As well as this, all of my iPhone 4 photos are on the 4S now, and I can't find the photos I took with the 4S over the last week.So essentially, I think I've backed up my 4S to my iPhone 4's data, losing all my 4S data from the past week?!
So my question is, is there anyway I can find these photos and messages? Some of them were quite important too me, so I would really appreciate any advice.
You restored your 4S from your iphone 4 backup. The only hope you have of retrieving your current data is if you have a back up of your 4S.
If not those data is gone.
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