Restoring phone from icloud?? am I missing something here...
Hi All:
I recently restored my iphone and everythign is now wipped from it.
I went to make a phone call today and was like, oh right, I wiped it out but then thought of the icloud backup I have. How do I restore my contacts or anything from icloud.
there is nothing on the website about restoring to the phone, I went into itunes but that did not really have anything about restoring the phone other than re-doing what I just did.
Did I miss something in the restore process that says "click here to restore from cloud"?
Thanks for any help or advice on this,
Paul
At the top of the screen in the app store, I see a choice - "Iphone" "IPad".
Do you not have this choice?
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