I backed up my phone. Got a new phone. Should I delete old backup since I need the storage? Will I lose anything?

I would restore the new ios device with the old backup it would make the new device have the same data as the only without it causing problems

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I lost my phone had everything backed up on icloud.got my new phone,went to retrieve my photos but it duplicated a certain amount therefore used the free 5 gb of data. purchased 16gb then but cant see my old photos or old iphone on icloud account

I lost my phone had everything backed up on icloud.
got my new phone,went to retrieve my photos but it duplicated a certain amount therefore used the free 5 gb of data. purchased 16gb then but cant see my old photos or old iphone details on icloud account. it only shows the certain amount that duplicated but no old phone details or old photos.
gutted all travelling photos

If you have a backup of your old phone, the backup should include your camera roll photos. Restoring the backup should recover them. This explains how to restore an iCloud backup: iCloud: Restore your iOS device from iCloud.

HT4913 I got a new computer and have an old iPod that I need to add to "manage my device" and cant seem to get it added. When I originally plugged in my iPod to my new computer, it ended up erasing all of my playlists.Help

I have an old iPod that has all of my music and use my personal computer to keep iTunes on and store all of my music. Recently my old computer died and had to get a new computer. I got my iTunes restores on my new computer and see all of my music, but when I tried to sync up my old iPod (love it!), I ended up erasing all of my playlist. In my "manage my device" I see my iPhone, my iPad, but I do not see my iPod. How can I add my iPod to "my manage my Devices" and get it synced up? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW - Somehow I was able to restore my iPod back to Factory Settings.

There are lots of ideas floating on the web for this particular issue - all of which I tried. I had the same problem and it turned out to be my USB cable. I thought the cable was fine as it would charge my phone and play but the data transfer pin was bent. I replaced the cable and it fixed the problem. Worth a shot as it is an easy fix!

HT201272 I purchased an audiobook from iTunes On my iPhone. I got a new phone and after the back up, the books I downloaded were not there. iTunes wants me to repurchase the books I downloaded. Is there a way for me to Redon load my already purchased b

I purchased an audiobook from iTunes On my iPhone. I got a new phone and after the back up, the books I downloaded were not there. iTunes wants me to repurchase the books I downloaded. Is there a way for me to Redon load my already purchased books?

Hi..
On your new iPhone tap Settings > Store.
Make sure Books is turned ON.
You shouldn't need to re purchase the book > Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Had an itunes account I shared with family. opened a separate account when I got a new phone but can't transfer my music library. How do I delete new account and go back to original shared account?

I had an itunes account I shared with my family. I opened a separate account when I got a new phone but cant't transfer my library of music. I want to cancel new account and go back to original shared account. How do I do this?

Content is permanently tied to the account it is acquired with.
Apple ID's cannot be deleted.
Simply sign out of the undesired account and stop using it. Sign in with the desired account.

I have got a new phone and my old phone was wiped. I backed it up but where do i find my contacts list on iTunes? Or should i be looking somewhere else?

i have got a new phone and my old phone was wiped. I backed it up but where can i find all my contacts?

Unfortunately your other contacts may be lost. Contacts are not saved in iTunes; they are only synced with iTunes to a supported program such as Outlook or mac Address Book. If you don't have these, there are other options for backing up your contacts such as syncing them with iCloud or another service such as Google. Syncing only partially saves contacts in the backup in order to preserve your favorites and recent call lists; it can't be relied on for backing up your entire contact list.

I a got a new phone and backed all of my stuff on to the new one can I now delete the old phone backups off I cloud without deleting the content from my phone?

I a got a new phone and backed all of my stuff on to the new one can I now delete the old phone backups off I cloud without deleting the content from my phone?

Yes, absolutely, but before you do, give yourself three or four days to verify that you have everything on the new phone. You also probably will not be able to delete old backup for three days anyway, I have heard that Apple places server in three days lock out after restore from backup initially started.

How do I get my new iphone restored with my old backup? my old iphone had ios5 and the replacement phone i got has ios4 and it wont let me backup my phone because it doesnt have ios4... i cant get ios5 without restoring my iphone and backing it uo

Basically, i need all my old stuff from my iphone 4 with ios5 onto my new iphone 4. The new phone i received only had ios4. I went to get all my contacts and backup from my old phone onto my new phone and it wont let me because my new phone is only ios4 and my backup from my old phone was in ios5. I cant get ios5 on my phone without creating a new backup of my new phone, which has nothing on it. If i restore it as a new phone and backup virtually nothing from my new phone, will that get rid of all my old backup stuff from my old iphone?

Bottom line is you CANNOT restore to a phone from a backup that has a more recent iOS which is what you're trying to do. Just can't be done.

I just got a new phone and deleted everything from my old one even my icloud and now on my new phone it says i have two devices on my icloud. i need help it wont let me delete my old phone from my icloud

so i got a new phone and i am using my icloud on tht new phone but itb says i have two devices on my icloud. i am trying to delete my old phone on my i cloud but it wont let me. i got an email saying that because in deleted my icloud from my old phone now i no one can delete it from the icloud account or try and find it. so *** do i do. and hown i can i delete my storage so its not to full because now my stuff cant be backed up

Settings>iCloud>Storage and Backup>Manage Storage. Select the phone that doesn't say "this phone" then scroll down and choose Delete Backup

I just got a new phone today the iphone 5c and i plugged it into itunes. i wanted to get all of my data from my iphone 4s but when i synced my phone all of my iphone 3 data was on my new phone how do i get my iphone 4 data on my new phone?

I just got a new phone today the iphone 5c and i plugged it into itunes. i wanted to get all of my data from my iphone 4s but when i synced my phone all of my iphone 3 data was on my new phone how do i get my iphone 4 data on my new phone?

Did you choose the wrong back up? There should be a drop box when you go to "Restore from Back up" in iTunes and your iPhone is plugged in, on the Summary page. Choose the correct back up. If you can't find one, and you still have your device, back up your iPhone 4 again and then choose that back up. Or check for an old iCloud back up if you have one.

Everytime I hook up my iphone 5 to itunes it says it wont recognize my phone and that I need to restore it. I just got a new phone two days ago due to a hardware issue and got it home tried to put my music on it and had to restore it.

Everytime I hook my Iphone 5 to itunes it wants me to restore the phone. I got a new phone two days ago because of this and other issues came home and went to put my music on it and it wanted me to restore which it resulted in a frozen screen with the picture of needing to connect the cable(it was a brand new phone). So I went back to Apple and they restore it there then came home again and the same thing happened although I have not restored it this time casue I dont have time to go back to Apple again. What am I doing wrong? This is happening to my husbands phone as well.

Hi Wendoglenn,
If you are having mail issues with your new iPhone, you may find the following article helpful:
iOS: Troubleshooting Mail
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
Regards,
- Brenden

I got a new phone, I also changed out my hard drive in Mac. Missing auiobooks.

I got a new phone, I also changed out my hard drive in my mac. Both were backed up. The phone was backed up first to the hard drive and then the hard drive to another source. Anyway, I am now missing hundreds of dollars worth of audio books. How can I revoer the old books without losing the new books I've bought and the documents created since the change? Thanks for the help.

Restore the data from the backups.

I got a new phone in the mail and i want to get my pictures off of my old one (doesnt turn on at the moment). Also isnt there a way to restore my settings onto the new one? settings that were on my old one?

My girlfriend got a new phone recently as well and she was able to click something on her new phone that allowed all the setting pictures texts and etc to transfer to her new phone, even though her old phone was unaccessible. How do I do that for my phone? It's the same circumstance. I dont back up my phone like she does but I dont think she had done a recent backup before her phone died either. Someone please help!

You transfer the data (including text messages) and settings from your old phone to your new one by backing up your old phone and restoring this backup to your new one (see http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2109). This must have been what your girlfriend did.
If you never backed up your old phone and it doesn't work now, it's too late.

My husband got a new phone number, however, every time he texts me it still says he's texting from his old number. I've even erased him as a contact and reprogrammed him. How do I correct this?

My husband got a new phone number, however, every time he texts me it says it's coming from his old phone number. I've even deleted him from my contacts and my hotmail contacts, resynced my hotmail contacts, then added my husband as a new contact. Both of his phones were iPhones but his previous carrier was Verizon and his new carrier is Viaero. I'm still on Verizon.

I've fixed my own problem.
In the end, the issue was with iMessage on the other phone, not mine.
While I had it connected to iTunes (the other phone, not mine), I could see that iTunes thought it was the temporary number (07429...). I turned iMessage off and back on again and the phone number in iTunes changed to the old (i.e correct) number (07903...).
Subsequently, texts from my phone to the other phone showed up as blue-bubbled iMessages.
Hope this helps someone!
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I downloaded ringtones and text tones then got a new phone. How do I get them on the new phone?

I downloaded ringtones and text tones then got a new phone. How do I get them on the new phone?

Transfer your purchases from old iPhone to computer iTunes, then select tones in iTunes with your new iPhone connected, do a sync.

I backed up my phone. Got a new phone. Should I delete old backup since I need the storage? Will I lose anything?

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