Need to combine back ups from months ago and current...help!
All of my contacts were deleted when I shut down/restarted my iPhone 4S. The last back up on iTunes was many months ago, but I have many new calendar, note, photo etc entries since then that I cannot loose. I performed a new back up on iTunes and have since activated iCloud as well. I now need to restore my contacts from the dated backup on I tunes, but then I will also need to somehow incorporate my latest backup from either iTunes or iCloud, but not sure how to go about any of this without loosing information. When I go to iTunes and click restore from backup it shows as only option iphone, not the two different backup dates (may be that if I click it will give me the option of the diff dates, I just was scared to click it in case another option isn't given....although now that I write this I see nothing to loose as the old info is gone so maybe a mute point). Anyway, is there any way for me to restore my old back up from months ago on itunes and then also restore the latest newer info too?
Just FYI...spoke with Verizon, apple and many diff blogs about trying to just restore my contacts from wherever they went, but no luck with anything so now stuck trying to restore from very old backup on iTunes.
fwiw
It seems that in a case like this you'd need to reset the device to factory settings and then restore from iCloud backup.
Sadly the reset to factory settings could cause more trouble than its worth.
Apple's iCloud backup, could, but does not let the user restore one app or its data.
You'll also find that even though that App's data is in the cloud, you as its owner do not have access to it.
Hope it helps/
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