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Setting up an iPhone as "a new phone" |
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Setting up an iPhone as "a new phone"
Ok so when we get my Mrs a new iPhone on Saturday I was wondering how I should set it up, I'd like to set it up as a new phone so it doesn't take on al the months/years of rubbish from the old phones, but thing is if we set it up as a new phone will that mean even her contacts/texts will be gone too? Don't fancy manually putting back in 100 contacts!
If not I'll have to restore from backup? Any pointers? Thanks |
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I believe you can still sign into iCloud as normal, enable contacts, calendars etc, and it'll pull those details down to the phone.
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The phone numbers are saved in iCloud so it doesn't matter if you set up as new phone.
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iCloud is broken at the moment since updating to ios9 both mine and my Mrs phone won't backup to iCloud. Is backing up on iTunes the same? Can I still grab contacts from there?
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that's weird - iCloud is working fine for me.
You could possibly use a third party program like copytrans http://www.copytrans.net/ That might let you just grab the contacts and back them up and restore them to the new phone. |
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