HT1296 I lost music on my computer. Can I restore from my phone?

I lost music on my computer. How do I sync from my phone back to the computer?

Plug iPhone in.
Once it mounts in iTunes, select files-devices-iPhone-transfer purchases.
This will only transfer stuff purchased from iTunes.

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You can also copy music from the shuffle via the command line using Terminal. Unfortunately, all the music files are invisible in the finder and only show up using command line.
Probably easier to use one of those apps, assuming they work with shuffle.

I have lost all my contacts. Can't restore from Gmail.

So, I recently got an iPhone.
I transferred contacts from my android phone using a CardDav.
A while later I downloaded Cleandupes, an app to get rid of those pesky duplicates.
It trimmed my contacts from 1600 to 600 contacts. Great!
I deleted the app.
I then returned to my phone today and found that I have only 68 contacts left.
They are not on iCloud, they are not on iTunes. I tried to put in another CardDav to get them back from Gmail, to atleast start where I was a month or so back, but my phone says it already has this CardDav in action. Surely my Gmail still has my contacts!?
Any ideas what has gone wrong and how to solve it?
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Hello gooballala, thank you.
I went to the site and though my contacts were missing from there too, they allowed me to restore my contacts to the state they were in yesterday. No idea what has happened, but I think we're back to a good place.
Thanks very much for directing me that way.
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ive just updated my iphone it automatcially did it via itunes on my pc and now i've lost all my apps and can not restore from icloud and itunes sync and my apple id isnt accepting my password what on earth is happening im tearing my hair out!!! stupid update

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Possibly not, many people trying to restore lost calendars and contacts have found that restoring from a phone back up doesn't help.

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I have music loaded from cd's. They were intact after each sync. After a iTune upgrade, I lost all the music at sync. Can I restore them from old backup in iCloud ?

Unless you'd signed up to iTunes Match then they won't be in the Cloud, only music purchased from iTunes (if you are in a country where music can be re-downloaded) will be there. Have you not still got it on your computer and/or on a backup which you can use to sync it back to the iPad ?

HT1473 i just purchased a new desktop computer. I had downloaded music from CD's on my old computer. How do I get this music on my new computer. The music is on my iPhone, can I download from my phone?

I just purchased a new desktop computer. I had downloaded music from CD's on my old computer. How do I get this music on my new computer? The music is on my iphone, can I download from my phone?

btkamp wrote:
I just purchased a new desktop computer. I had downloaded music from CD's on my old computer.
From your OLD computer...
Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..
Full Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
An Added Bonus is that you will have a Backup of iTunes.
btkamp wrote:
The music is on my iphone,
If you do not have access to the iTunes Library on your Old computer... or its Backup...
See https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

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updated my iphone 4 to iOS 5.0.1 and then lost all my apps. how can I restore them?

As long as the apps are still available in the store, and you use the same iTunes account as you originally used to buy them, then you should be able to re-download them for free : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519 . If you download them to your computer's iTunes you could then try restoring to your backup and see if that restores them and their settings/content back to your iPhone - a backup doesn't contain the actual apps, just their content/settings, so for the restore to work fully iTunes needs access to the apps so that it can restore them.

TS2776 I lost my Contacts. How can I restore them?

I lost my Contacts. How can I restore them?

Contacts are designed to be synced to a supported application on the computer or a cloud service.
If used as designed it is not possible to lose contacts.

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Lost my contacts list and try to restore from backup and it ask for my password to unlock my iphone backup. I don't remember creating a password for it. Can anyone help? Thanks.

If you encrypted the backup, there is no way around it. You will need to configure your iPhone as a new device.
From iTunes: About iOS backups:
In the iTunes Summary screen, select "Encrypt iPhone backup" if you want to encrypt the information stored on your computer when iTunes makes a backup. Encrypted backups are indicated by a padlock icon, and a password is required to restore the information to iPhone. You may want to write down the password for your backup and store it in a safe place. If you use a Mac, when you set a password you can select to store the password in the keychain. With iOS 4 and later, you can transfer the iOS keychain backup to a new device if you encrypt the backup.
Warning: If you encrypt an iPhone backup in iTunes and then forget your password, you will not be able to restore from backup and your data will be unrecoverable. If you forget the password, you can continue to back up and use the device, however you will not be able to restore the encrypted backup to any device without the password. You do not need to enter the password for your backup each time you back up or sync.
If you cannot remember the password and want to start again, you must perform a full software restore and when iTunes prompts you to select the backup from which to restore, choose set up as a new device.

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I transferred my 3GS photos onto my new iphone 5 ust to look at them. Now I am running out of storage. I need to save them to a computer so I can delete them from my phone. How can I do this?

Hey bizteacher,
Thanks for the question. Do you still have access to the iPhone 3GS? If so, follow these steps:
iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4083
You could also follow these steps on your new iPhone 5, so long as the pictures are stored in your Camera Roll (as opposed to being synced to your phone).
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Hi. I have down loaded songs and tv shows on my i phone 4s but i can remove them from my phone. I have transfered purchases and cun ticked sync music and tv shows but still i have the downloaded contenet on my phone. Please help

I have down loaded songs and tv shows on my i phone 4s but i can remove them from my phone. I have transfered purchases and cun ticked sync music and tv shows but still i have the downloaded contenet on my phone. Please help

also must mention i have never had trouble that i couldn't fix on itunes but all of this has started since i have been using icloud for basic backups hope this helps solve problem

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Can I restore my apps from a computer if I restore from icloud or itunes when I have not backedup by apps?
My apps are in my media folder in itunes.
Thanks
Kenfromw

I just wanted to update this chain since I was able to solve the problem I had. My iPad backups were on a time machine backup, but not on my new computer. In my most recent time machine backup I navigated to:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup and took the most recent folder from there. I copied that folder into the corresponding directory on my new machine, and then when I opened iTunes and plugged in my iPad it was there and I was able to restore it!
Note that if you have multiple devices, you can open that folder in the Backup directory and find the info.plist file, and near the top it will say the name of the device, so I was able to tell which was my iPad backup and which was my iPhone backup.
Problem solved!

If I delete an email account from my phone but keep it on my computer can I restore it later to my phone?

if I delete an email account from my phone but keep it on my computer can I restore it later to the phone?

Yes. But why delete it in the first place?

Can you restore from a backup that was made on a previous version of iOS?

Hello.
I had an iPhone 3GS unning whatever the latest proper version of iOS currently is at the time of writing (4.3.5, is it?) but on Saturday I was on a rather drunken night out and I lost my phone.
Silly me.
But I was out of contract and the new iPhone (4S or 5 or whatever) is going to be announced on Tuesday next week (just been confirmed by Apple today) so I'm just going to make do with an old, spare Nokia until the new iPhone is available in the UK.
Once the new iPhone launches I will buy it, plug it into iTunes and just restore from backup and I'm back in business.
Except for one thing... The new iPhone will have iOS 5 installed and my last backup before I lost my 3GS was done on iOS 4.3.5.
Is this going to be a problem or can you restore from a backup made with an older version of the OS?
I've never done it before so I don't know.
J

You "should" have no problem doing that. I say should, because you can't restore a backup made with a higher iOS on a device running a lower iOS, I.E. - you can't restore a backup made from a device running, let's say iOS 4.3.5 on a device running iOS 4.2.10. However, iOS 5.0 will present many new features and since it has not been released, I have no way of stating with certainty that doing as you plan will not present any problems. Past history indicates it won't, but we'll have to wait & see.

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