Do i need to keep an old phone in my cloud?

I just got a new phone and when I checked my iCloud storage, it says that my old phone is still there as well as my new phone. Do I need to keep my old phone in my cloud or can I delete it?

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Do i need to keep my old phone backup on my icloud or can I delete the account

I have purchased more storage for my iphone and have noticed that under storage and backup my old iphone appears along with my current one. Is there any reason to keep this on the phone? I feel like it's taking up space that I could use

If you no longer need the backup, go ahead and delete it. Just be aware that once deleted, it cannot be restored.

Moving iphone 4 content to an iphone 6, while keeping the old phone

I currently use an iPhone 4. I am getting an iPhone 6, and plan to bring all my apps and settings from the old phone to the new one.
I expect that the process is simply doing a backup of the old, and then choosing to use the backup as for a "restore" on the new phone when i first activate it through iTunes. That doesn't worry me and is not my question.
My concern is that I plan to keep the old phone also. So my plan is to give the new iPhone 6 a different name before doing the restore from the iPhone 4 backup. Will that work?
Also - as I go forward will it be a problem to keep synching both phones using the same instance of iTunes and the same Apple ID? I am guessing that I may run into some app updating issues with updates that can't run on the old iOS in the iPhone 4 (it cannot be updated to iOS 8). I suspect I'll just need to delete such apps when the time comes.
Can anyone give some insights on how this will work? I am guessing a lot here - and I'd rather know before I charge forward.
Thanks.

Your expectations are correct. You certainly can give the iPhone 6 a different name. iTunes will keep the two phones distinct. Apps which will not run on the iPhone 4 iOS level will not be loaded to it.

Need to back up old phone with new computer to purchase new phone with different service

I need assistance in backing up my old phone on a new computer to purchase a new phone with a new service provider so I can sync after purchase. Any daring souls know what I talking about?

See if this helps you,
Old Phone to New Phone
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109

I bought a new phone, and am trying to sync to my old phone on the cloud...how do I do this? Had to initially update to 6.1 system so can't use the initial configuation...help!

I just bought a new IPhone 5-had tp update the operating system to be able to sync it with my axisting phone which was on 6.1 (new phone was on 6.0.1). So the new phone is now synced to an old version of my old phone that was on ITunes...how do I get it to sync to the newest version of my old phone that is on iCloud??

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Navigate to Settings > General > Reset > Erase all contents and settings on the device you want to restore.
When this completes and the Set-Up Assistant starts, choose "Restore from iCloud Backup" and enter your iCloud account and password. You will see the three most recent backups for each of the devices on which you enabled Backup. Choose which backup to restore from.

What happens if I restore my new iPhone from backup but keep the old phone on?

I currently have an iPhone 5 and have the 6+ on the way. I'm worried about the size of the 6+ so I'd like to test it out for the 14 day period. If I set up the 6 by restoring from iCloud backup can I still keep my 5 up and running. I wasn't planning on transferring my cell service over to the 6 yet and just running off wifi. Obviously iTunes is going to see both phones as being the same device so that would cause a problem but what if I left wifi sync and iCloud backup on the 6 off. Would this setup work? Thanks in advance.

What I mean is still track my stolen one. I don't know if this will make sense to you but I'm thinking that if I restore the back up data on this phone..on my stolen phone it will like forget the icloud account or something and think this phone is the stolen one so when I go to track the stolen one, it will show that phone as the one I have now because I restored the back up from that phone.

New mac pro upgrade advice needed or keep the old clunker

I have a 2008 mac pro with only 8gb ram
I am use the computer for FCP and Logic as well
as photo editing. It is not my livelihood I am just a serious hobbiest.
My option is to go with a new Mac Pro probably 8 core with 1 TB
I would have to get an enclosure for my 4 thunderbolt internal drives.
I also have 2 firewire 800 2T external drives.
My monitor is a 30 inch cinema display
so an 8 core with 64gb plus 4k monitor and upped graphics card is $11,600 add my buisness discount i am probably
looking at around $11,000
My other option is to keep the clunker add a 1TB SSD PCIe card form owc and add 8gb ram this will
cost me $1,400. I am really only throwing away the $200 for increasing the ram as
the PCIe ssd drive can be salveged and used in the new mac pro if I bought an pcie/ thunderbolt enclosure.
Tha advantage of going this route is I could use the clunker for another year allowing time
for the kinks in the new mac pro to be ironed out as well as the advantage of faster chips in next years model.
The other issue I have is a use a Universal Audio PCI card with 4 sharc processors to run specific plugins that need that
card in logic. That card will no be compatible with the new Mac pro and the replacement cards are over $1000 that are compatibe
Just looking for some advice do you think the SSD PCI card and ram will keep me happy with the performance to hold off upgrading for
a year or shoul I just put the clumker out of its misery?

radman wrote:
Just looking for some advice do you think the SSD PCI card and ram will keep me happy with the performance to hold off upgrading for
a year or shoul I just put the clumker out of its misery?
On this page Apple compares the 2012 Mac Pro (12-core) to a 2013 Mac Pro (12-core). The new Mac Pro performs about 3x faster at rendering. You didn't say how many cores your Mac Pro has but you could expect about a 4-5x faster performance increase.
I would have some questions for you:
How much time do you spend waiting on your current Mac Pro?
How much money are you willing to spend for a 4-5x increase?
I have a 2010 Mac Pro with a 960 GB OWC Mercury Accelsior E2 PCIe SSD, program launches and computer restarts are much faster. Compressing video takes the same amount of time as it did when I booted from a hard drive. I can't read or type email any faster, iTunes plays music just as fast as it always has with a hard drive.
I would use Activity Monitor to monitor your computer's memory use while you work with FCP and Logic to see if you are maxing out your memory then adding more may be the way to go.
I use my Mac Pro for recording over-the-air TV and compressing that video into an Apple TV usable format. I've found that having a dedicated drive for capture works well. Also, when I compress the video my capture drive becomes a dedicated source drive for Compressor and I write the output file to a separate dedicated drive. This ensures I maximize data flow and keep all my cores nearly fully utilized. I tend to do the processor intensive tasks (compressing video which can take hours) at the end of the day when I know I won't be using the computer (or only doing light work on it such as email or web surfing).

TS1630 people cannot hear me when they call me in my iphone, what is wrong? it's either I need to keep tapping the phone or they will not hear me

I am having difficulty with Iphone4. For two weeks now, when people call me or I call them, there are times that they cannot hear me. At times I need to tap the phone and it will work but most of the time it does not. What is the problem? Is this a major problem?

Hello arendss1,
Thank you for sharing your audio concern with your iPhone 4S! As your wireless provider, we want to make sure that you are able to get the maximum usage out of your device! I would like to partner with you so we can get this issue resolved once and for all! May I ask is there any physical or liquid damage on the device? Also, what software version do you have on the phone? Below are some steps to try to resolve the audio issues.
Turn off bluetooth and wifi in the Settings Menu.
Verify that the headset jack is clean.
Adjust the volume from the Settings menu. (Settings > Sounds > Ringer and Alerts)
Confirm that "Change with Buttons" is on.
Perform a soft reset by pressing & holding the home key & the sleep/wake key for 10 seconds.
Once you have tried these steps then please retest to see if the audio has returned to the device. I would also like to suggest test the device on speaker phone and with a wired earpiece as well. If the issue persist then please advise of any changes as all new information may prove to be beneficial in achieving a resolution.
Thank you...
ArnettH_VZW
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HT1688 I need to unregister my old phone. Could you please tell me how to do this.

I am no longer using an iphone and need to unregister it. How do I do this?

you mean? unregister it how? if you switched to a non apple device you may need to unregister your number from the imessage server. if you mean uregister it as not in your name the new cusotmer can restore the device in itunes and set it up as new and it should register it to the new customer if not have them call apple and they can register it to the new cusotmer. if your talking about it being tied to your cellular carrier account that should be taken up with the carrier.

I need to unlock an old phone, but the Apple ID and password isn't being recognised?

I want to unlock my sons old IPhone so it can be used by someone else. We have put in the correct Apple ID and password but it does not recognise it!

You can get your appleID password reset at iforgot.apple.com

Need help on my old phone 3500c

Hi.I've got a 3500 and I want to get back some videos that I deleted them.I really need this help if its possible.

Hi Cengo,
Welcome to Nokia Support Discussions!
Did you create a backup file before deleting them or synchronize them to your PC? We can only retrieve data that has been backed up or synchronize with your PC.

TS4009 i i backed up my old phone with i cloud backup .when i setup my new phone the music and photos were not restored

How can i retreave my music and photos from i cloud.All my contacts are restord

It doesn't ask if I want to install the new phone or anything..? Plz help.

Upgrading to Edge and keeping old phones...

I have 2 phones that are under contract and paid in full, 23 months of the 24 months right now. I'm interested in switching to EDGE, but I learned they want me to give them my phones that are far paid off. Currently, we've paid around 2200$ towards the 900$ in cell phones. I understand you pay more with subsidiaries blah blah. I wasn't asking for a waiver of the contract. I was asking to be allowed to pay off my last month in the contract today and sign up for EDGE and be able to keep the old phones. I assumed there's no way they would say no, I'm willing to pay 170$ immediately and switch to a plan where I pay 50$ more a month...what company would ever say no to this?? Verizon would.
This whole switch was stemmed from getting stopped by a rep from at&t that was giving money to buy out people's contracts with Verizon and they offered a similar plan for new phones. The trouble is, their service isn't as good in the area I live and so I looked into what Verizon was offering currently. I was excited when I noticed the same offerings over here and disappointed when striking out online and in a local store front. We were looking to switch to some water resistant phones before our family trip to the Pacific coastline.
Has anyone ever had any luck with customer support in a similar situation. Again, just looking to pay off my last month now and upgrade to new phones on EDGE without turning in my old phones.

Funny thing about that is people with less than 10 GB of data allowance are only paying $10/month of the line access fee towards "paying off their phone" while people with 10 GB or more of data allowance are paying $25/month of the line access fee towards "paying off their phone".
Verizon must like the people better who have a lower data allowance since a smaller portion of their line access fee is going towards "paying off their phone".
Unfortunately, some of the competitors have the same pricing schedule.

Help! Verizon won't port old phone number over to my FIOS house landline.

Hi, need help on resolving this issue with Verizon. Had Verizon FIOS triple play installed at my house about 12 days ago. HD Prime, 15/5 internet and Digital Voice landline. I switched from TimeWarner cable. I signed up online for Verizon FIOS and tried to use my current house telephone number when signing up. Next day I get a call from a Verizon rep telling me my order was lost even thou I had a confirmation number and that I would have to redo my online sign up.
I wanted to keep my old telephone number that I had with TimeWarner and port it over to Verizon. What I did to save my old house phone number was I ported my TimeWarner house telephone number over to an activated cellular Tracfone that I own. So I resigned up online and selected a new telephone number and the order went thru and I had my FIOS installed at my house.
What I have learned from talking with Verizon billing, is because my old telephone number that I had with TimeWarner had been originally given to me by Verizon many years back and then it was ported over to TimeWarner from Verizon that Verizon now won't port the old number back over to my house landline because they have already ported it out once years ago for me.
One suggested I create a new account, don't know it this can be done or not. I got a really good price on the FIOS Triple Play bundle I had installed and don't want to loose the great Verizon FIOS price deal I have.
Really frustrated at this point, being told before installation that I could keep my old phone number, spending a lot of time on the phone and then being told I can't do it after installation is completed.
Any ideas on how to get or make Verizon port over my old telephone number I have on my Tracfone now to my Verizon FIOS landline? I was told by a Verizon rep that it can't be done and they won't do it since the telephone number is my old Verizon phone number from many years ago that they ported out they won't port in back it now. Wow, talk about a "Can't do" attitude.
Any and all constructive input is welcomed. Thanks for reading this.
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Hi, need help on resolving this issue with Verizon. Had Verizon FIOS triple play installed at my house about 12 days ago. HD Prime, 15/5 internet and Digital Voice landline. I switched from TimeWarner cable. I signed up online for Verizon FIOS and tried to use my current house telephone number when signing up. Next day I get a call from a Verizon rep telling me my order was lost even thou I had a confirmation number and that I would have to redo my online sign up.
I wanted to keep my old telephone number that I had with TimeWarner and port it over to Verizon. What I did to save my old house phone number was I ported my TimeWarner house telephone number over to an activated cellular Tracfone that I own. So I resigned up online and selected a new telephone number and the order went thru and I had my FIOS installed at my house.
What I have learned from talking with Verizon billing, is because my old telephone number that I had with TimeWarner had been originally given to me by Verizon many years back and then it was ported over to TimeWarner from Verizon that Verizon now won't port the old number back over to my house landline because they have already ported it out once years ago for me.
One suggested I create a new account, don't know it this can be done or not. I got a really good price on the FIOS Triple Play bundle I had installed and don't want to loose the great Verizon FIOS price deal I have.
Really frustrated at this point, being told before installation that I could keep my old phone number, spending a lot of time on the phone and then being told I can't do it after installation is completed.
Any ideas on how to get or make Verizon port over my old telephone number I have on my Tracfone now to my Verizon FIOS landline? I was told by a Verizon rep that it can't be done and they won't do it since the telephone number is my old Verizon phone number from many years ago that they ported out they won't port in back it now. Wow, talk about a "Can't do" attitude.
Any and all constructive input is welcomed. Thanks for reading this.

Can't make backup for old phone on computer

Greetings.
I am in a bit of a pickle. For some reason, the last iCloud backup I have for my now mostly nonfunctional phone was on 7/8/14. My itunes back up was even earlier.
My 3GS decided to start rebooting itself over and over again without letting me access anything whatsoever.
I needed a new phone, so I decided to upgrade to a 4S at minimal cost.
Considering the model was old, they let me keep the old phone.
The problem is that I now have data frozen in time on my old phone, conversations and phone records that I would like to keep for posterity from 7/8 until the present day.
I loaded the last backup onto my new phone.
However, my old phone will still be recognized by itunes, with all of its data still intact. However, when I try to make a backup to iCloud, nothing works. It won't even back it up to my computer on itunes.
Is there anyway to retroactively backup my phone so that I may load this content, in combination with my recent content onto my recent 4S content onto my new phone? Have an appointment at the apple store coming up, but I'd like feedback nonetheless.
Thank you

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Do i need to keep an old phone in my cloud?

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