Is it possible to restore an iPhone to a previous backup?

Due to a mistake by my provider, I recently lost several voicemails from a loved one. When I restored my phone to a back up from November, nothing changed. My phone was the exact same. I'm not sure how this occurred but. Was wondering if there is any possible way to restore my phone to a previous backup which would contain the voicemail. If so how?

Restore from Backup  >  http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

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  • Is it possible to restore my iPhone to a previous back up?

    I had several old voicemails from a loved one which got deleted due to an error with my provider. However when I tried to restore my iPhone to get these voicemails once again, nothing changed, at all. My phone was at the same point in time as when I had restored it. So is there any possible way of restoring it to a previous back up? If so how?

    Yes that's what I feared. Fortunately though I was able to select a previous backup to restore my phone to. So gladly I was able to retrieve the voicemails. When my phone was plugged into my computer I selected fie and then my iPhone and then restore and it allowed me to chose from several backups that I have made! I have not updated my iTunes to the most recent one so I am not quite sure if that option is also included in the update!

  • How to restore an iPhone from a previous backup using iTunes

    Hi all, I don't have a question - but merely a story of the solution I found to restore a previous backup from my wife's iPhone 5c that had some problems. Long story short, something got jammed with her Exchange email account settings and she lost all of her contacts and emails. Everything was fine on her work server (accessing the account using Outlook or the web app worked just fine). For whatever reason, this would not be fixed by deleting and recreating the Exchange account on the iPhone for some reason.
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    I should note that in my study I learned that there is a fundamental difference between backing up and syncing. The former handles all the settings and iOS stuff, the latter is all about apps and music (and stuff). This knowledge proved useful later.
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    1. Unplug the phone, double tap the home button and quit all the apps, and turn it off. It's probably not necessary to shut it down entirely, but that's what OCD does - it makes you do irrational things.
    2. Quit all the computer's programs, and restart. Again, the wonder of OCD.
    3. Once restarted, don't open iTunes. Mouse up to the 'Go' menu in the Finder top bar. Click on 'Go'. Hold down the 'Option' key and you'll notice the 'Library' submenu magically appears. Click 'Library'.
    4. A Finder > Library window will open. Double click on 'Application Support'. Double click on 'MobileSync'. You should be staring at a Finder window with a folder called 'Backup'. Don't double click it.
    5. From here, launch Time Machine from the Dock or from Mission Control. Ooh and aaahh as the Finder window magically animates itself into file-folder order.
    6. Scan back in time to the date after your last good backup. Click 'Restore'. It will ask you if you want to keep or overwrite the 'Backup' folder. I overwrote mine. It was a 25GB folder, so the Time Machine recovery took a while.
    7. While the recovery was going on, I learned of a way (here) to use the Terminal application (inside Mission Control > Other) to disable the automatic backup function in iTunes. For sake of not mis-copying the Terminal commands and giving you broken code, I suggest you refer to that page - plus, you should give them kudos and share their work because frankly, I'm not smart enough to have written it. Simply copy in the 'disable' command in to Terminal, wait a moment, and a new Terminal command line will pop-up. That means it's done and good. I thought I might get some fireworks, but alas.
    8. With the backups turned off, the phone unplugged, and the Time Machine restore complete, I quit Time Machine and launched iTunes.
    9. I plugged in the phone. It booted up. It then synced, but did not backup (which was perfect). The 'Latest Backup' field thankfully read February 17th. Joy. I clicked 'Restore Backup...' and the process began. The phone successfully recovered and I was elated.
    10. Now recovered and fully functional again (contacts and mail both intact), I again unplugged the phone and then quit iTunes. I returned to the Terminal application, and punched in the other code that causes the automatic backup to resume. I relaunched iTunes, plugged in a different iPhone (to test objectively), and it both synced and backed up. Huzzah.
    To be honest, I won't be following this thread nor replying to questions if any arise. I just thought I should share the solution and thank all of the people who posted stuff along the way that helped me out of a jam. Thank You.
    -- Cedric

    Hi austinflorida,
    Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
    From your post I understand you want to restore your iOS backups to the new iTunes installation.  Take a look at the information below on how you can accomplish this.
    If you backed your iOS device up to iTunes, back up your devices on the new computer or manually transfer the backups from your old computer. The backups belong in:
    Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/
    Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
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    Windows Vista and Windows 7: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
    Note: To quickly access the AppData folder, click Start, and then in the search bar type %appdata% and press the Return key.
    Windows 8: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\
    Note: To quickly access the AppData folder, move the cursor to the top-right, click on the magnifying glass charm, type %appdata% and press the Return key.
    iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
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  • Can i restore my iPhone to a previous backup not listed in iTunes but is in my mobile sync folder?

    my backup/restore went wrong yesterday and a second backup was taken but that was only half of the info on my iphone. Can i use a previous backup or does itunes overide them to the newest version. I have read that the mobilesync folder in Library stores previous backups which i have found but i dont know what to do with the file now. Any help??? I really need my notes and previous sms messages that arent on the most recent backup but on the previous one

    Again, iTunes only keeps one normal backup, per device. Any other backups listed are backups created from restore points. These are time/date stamped & are not overwritten.

  • Is it possible to restore an iPhone 6 from a backup that isn't the most recent?

    Hi there
    I accidentally deleted a thread of text messages which contained important info that i need to retrieve.
    I then connected the phone to my iMac so i could try and restore it from a back up to get the messages back, but it automatically backed the phone up (after i had deleted the messages).
    I then went into iTunes and chose to restore the phone from a backup (thinking it would give me the option to chose a backup prior to deleting the text messages), but sadly not. It automatically started backing up from the most recent backup which is obviously not going to get my messages back.
    Is there a way to chose an older back up so i can retrieve the messages?
    Thanks in advance.
    Will

    Go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices and see what the date of the most recent backup.
    If that b/u has the data that you want to retrieve then restore using that b/u. If you b/u does not have the info then you are out of luck unless the carrier maintains a b/u of messages sent to your phone. I suspect that the carrier would only have the messages sent over their system and not from WiFi.
    MJ

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    Again, iTunes only keeps one normal backup, per device. Any other backups listed are backups created from restore points. These are time/date stamped & are not overwritten.

  • Can I restore my iPhone from a previous backup (Not latest)

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    Yesterday I restored my phone to factory settings (Had backed up prior to this) to try and fix a problem with my screen after speaking to an Apple Rep.
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    Again, iTunes only keeps one normal backup, per device. Any other backups listed are backups created from restore points. These are time/date stamped & are not overwritten.

  • What would happen if I restore an iPhone with a previous backup on your PC?

    I Need help guys ! I don't want I really did something good or bad like did I just delete everything on the phone before the backup !?
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    yes u will lose all the files on it, if you choose to sync it to another PC.
    first. sync it to the computer you originally synced it to, hence back it up
    now go to new PC, and sync, loose all data.
    now copy data from old PC to new pc
    add it to itunes and such now tell it what media to sync
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    tell icloud to sync all your photos, data and such and simply use icloud to sync up that stuff. as long as it does not go over 5gb.

  • Is it possible to restore my iPhone from both iCloud AND iTunes?

    Hi there,
    Is it possible to restore my iPhone from both iCloud AND iTunes?
    I backed up phone to iCloud only (not iTunes... yea Im a dummy)  and when I restored everything was great except my music and pictures never came back! I did get a fraction of my pictures though... maybe 40 out of 1000. I synced with iTunes and now have my music back but almost no pics.
    Shall I just erase all setting/content and  try again to restore from iCloud and then sync with iTunes? It just takes so long so I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had a better idea. I miss my pics.... D*mn iCloud
    Thanks so much!
    Lekha

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    Yes, you can restore from an iCloud backup and sync with iTunes. Probably you won't recover all your photos with iCloud backup because you can only recover photos taken in your iPhone. When you sync your iPhone in iTunes, you will have your music and photos

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    :-) Michael

    Thank you very much for this information.
    I have the newest version of iOS 5.1.1 on my 3S. But I get the data from the last backup of my 3S. The programms are at the same level like the 4S.
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  • If my most recent back up was using icloud, how can i restore my iphone to its previous back up, not the icloud one?

    I recently got a new iphone from the apple store and i forgot to back up before getting one, so i backed up on the icloud for the first time, i had alot of photos ect so i chose to not back them up to save time when i was with my genius guy. But now all my photos are gone, obviously. But im just wondering if i could restore my iphone to the previous back up i had on my mac. Is this possible? I just want my photo stream back !
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  • How can I restore my iPhone from an icloud backup

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    So much got deleted... how can I get it backk????

  • Is it possible to set my IPhone 5S to automatically backup to the Verizon cloud or to backup assistant. The only settings I see is where it will remind me to do. Can it be set to automatically do this, like my Droid did.

    Is it possible to set my IPhone 5S to automatically backup to the Verizon cloud or to backup assistant. The only settings I see is where it will remind me to do. Can it be set to automatically do this, like my Droid did.

        We want your information backed up as easily as possible, Todd536. With Verizon Cloud, you can not only tell the application when to back up automatically, but what you want backed up each time. Visit http://bit.ly/1f5sO4P for all the steps to manage your Verizon Cloud on your iPhone.
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  • How do i restore an iphone from an icloud backup

    How do i restore an iphone from an icloud backup?

    See the "iCloud: How to restore from a backup" section in this support article:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
    Regards.

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