HT1766 I hooked up my phone because I needed to restore my contacts, instead my phone set up a new restore point losing all the info I wanted.
I hooked up my phone to my computer so that I could have my contacts restored, instead it made a new save point effectively losing the info I needed. Is there any point to backing up your phone?
Ocean20 wrote:
I thought itunes only keeps the latest backup and every time you do a new backup it overwrites the old backup
iTunes will keep all backups until you delete them.
When you Restore from backup, iTunes renames the current backup and adds the date to the name and new backup is named Your_iPhone_name iPhone.
iCloud will keep backups until you delete them. You are not necessarily limited to 3 but Apple can limit you to 3 iCloud backups.
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Is it ok to delete old phone from iCloud and not lose iCloud data.
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Hope someone can help me, not very good at all this technology stuff so prob asking a really obvious question but here goes........My current laptop that im using to back up my iphone 4 and syncing is pretty much dead and i have a new laptop ready to go but iv been told so many conflicting solutions to this prob but ultimately i want to connect my phone to a new laptop without losing any of my contacts, messages and pictures!! is there a way of doing this??? please helpfollow the steps given here...
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If I choose to sync it tells me all of the Content that does not match the iTunes library on the computer will be erased, do you want to proceed & I have to say no.
How do I replace the music library on my Computer with the Music on the iPhone?
I got my pictures off because you can access them when you connect the iPhone using Windows 7 but you cannot see any of the music so you cannot access it when using windows so don't know what to do...
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I have subscribed to I Tunes Match on my computer where I've been syncing and backing up my I Phone. Can I access my music before all the artwork is uploaded from my computer?
Hi,
You will no longer be able to sync manually with match. I would suggest that you wait until match has competed its process on your computer and that you are told how many tracks are in the cloud.
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how do i backup my iphone 3 started on one itunes account and restore to the same phone with a different itunes account without losing all my information?
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Although not recommended, yes.
Disable automatic syncing when the iPhone is connected with iTunes on each computer.
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