Iphone Question (backing up mistake)
I have two phones. One I backed up and the other newer work phone I never backed up.
I thought I was backing up the newer phone, but now all the older personal phone is on my work phone.
What do I do?
The new phone restored from a backup, was there information on the new phone yet?
There is a good chance that if you restored from backup instead of backing up the new phone, then that information has been overwritten by the back up information.
Basically there exists in iTunes a backup copy of your OLD phone. You accidently chose an option that took the OLD phone and moved the data from that backup over to the NEW device. In doing this you have take the information/settings/data everything in that backup and put it over anything that was added to the NEW device. So basically your NEW device is your OLD device in terms of data.
If you had recently added information to the NEW device then that information, unless backed up in iCloud or possible even sync/backed up then maybe the information is recoverable, but if it has not been saved that information will be lost.
What kind of computer are you working on Mac or PC?
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JoeJoe The Author wrote:
1. What is the iPhone's Back Up Assist?
2. Does the Back Up Assist serve the same function as the Verizon Cloud? (If so, am I better off using Back Up Assist or the Verizon Cloud…or both?)
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