welcome back everyone my name is joel feld and today's video is about restoring
a device from a previous backup specifically your iphone or ipad that was backed up with
either itunes the finder or icloud and restoring that saved content
to a different device let's say that you're upgrading to a new phone you're upgrading
to a new ipad we're unfortunately in a situation where your old device broke
and you need to get a new one and you want to make sure that you're able to copy all of the content
from your old device to your new one that is what restoring is all about so let's get started
in my previous video which i will link down below i created backups several different ways using a
windows computer using two different methods on a mac one through itunes and one through the finder
in addition to an icloud backup but now we're gonna repeat the process in the sense that now
we have a brand new device and we need to set this up and we're gonna go through this
the setup process of how to set this brand new device up from a previous backup that
we've done on various devices so there's lots of different ways of how to restore your phone
based off of where your content is or how you want to do it so i have this phone here it could
be a brand brand new one like literally from the apple store or it could be someone's old
device that you're repurposing to use now as your own regardless whenever a device is back to its
factory settings it gives you this prompt so that you can set your device up using various methods
so the first thing it's going to prompt you is for the language so we're going to go ahead and choose
english and then it's going to prompt you for the country that you're in we'll choose united states
the next thing that it pops up with is an option called quickstart and quickstart allows you to
directly transfer content from a nearby old iphone or ipad to a your new one here we're gonna
skip past this and choose setup manually so we can see all of the other options as well
so i'm going to touch setup manually and then this is where it prompts you to connect to a wi-fi
so we'll go ahead and connect to wi-fi here so then prompts you a few more things touch id
data privacy we're going to say don't don't need a passcode right now so don't need a passcode yes
i'm sure and this is where you get to the point of what options do you have to restore this device so
we can either restore from an icloud backup we can store restore from mac or pc and we can transfer
directly from iphone move data from android or just don't do anything at all so if we chose the
don't do anything at all obviously we're not going to restore any data we just continue following the
prompts if we chose move data from android it prompts you to go to android store or the google
play store and download an app called move to ios and then you follow the prompts on there and if i
touch continue here it'll give you a code that you type in and then follow that process we're
going to go ahead and touch back in the top left and then continue on with the other options here
now transferred directly from my phone is takes me back to the previous screen for quick start
and that's where you'll get this qr code and we'll look at that as well
but i'm gonna go back through the menu and this is where we have the option to restore from a
mac or pc so if i touch that i'm able to plug my iphone or ipad into my windows computer or mac and
use either itunes or finder to restore that and we'll take a look at that so when i first plug in
my phone here notice itunes pops up it says hey success your iphone has been unlocked because
it's not locked with any carrier i'm going to go ahead and choose continue and the first thing that
pops up is welcome to your new iphone and i have two choices either to set up as a new iphone or
restore from a particular backup and if i click on here i would have multiple options of how to
of what device to choose if you have an iphone backup an ipad backup
all of those would live here and you can also restore an iphone backup to an ipad
or an ipad to an iphone but based off of the different settings some of the settings and
preferences won't copy over but the majority of it does so from this point i would just select the
the backup that i want to choose and do continue and that would allow me to do that now for
learning purposes i want to walk through the steps and doing it on other devices as
well so this is using itunes to restore a device let's jump to itunes on yes the windows computer
the windows computer so same exact process on the phone here but here on this windows computer i'm
going to open up itunes and on the phone i can say connect to mac or pc and here is where it gives me
the option to say hey welcome to your new iphone do you want to set up his new iphone or do you
want to restore from a previous backup and so i can say yep this would be the backup that i'd want
i can select it it shows me the date and time of when that backup took place
and i could choose continue here and go about my business and once that happens you're pretty
much set up you'll enter in your passwords that you have for all of your accounts validate your
apple id and it's going to start loading all the content that was saved in that backup back to this
phone and from my old phone that i backed up it's going to be identical to this new device now we're
going to switch gears and go to my other mac and use the finder and restore from that backup and
then we'll actually do the restore because then you'll see how it finishes out and regardless of
when you do a restore whether it's from a windows computer a mac using itunes or mac using finder
the process after you click continue here is identical it's just going to start loading
the information so let's go ahead and take this phone now and we're gonna plug into my other mac
and again i don't necessarily have to go to the main level of this iphone where it says
restore mac or pc i can just go ahead and open up the finder here and on the left hand side
it's going to say iphone and again we need to here say trust this device and then it's going
to bring up the same exact menu i'm going to make this a little bit larger so we can see it
and so finder really looks just like itunes it's just you're opening up finder versus itunes
now here again we can choose set up a new device or restore from this backup and notice i have two
different backups so this one called iphone i have no idea which iphone this was but this was backed
up june 7th at 10 38 and then this one here is from earlier yesterday at 10 15. so this is the
most up-to-date this is the one i want to use so i'm going to go ahead and choose continue and
when i do that i get a message on the screen that says restore in progress and that's just going to
take some time depending on how much content you have on that backup it could take five
minutes it could take 30 minutes so over here on the left hand side we see a little progress
and when you're in itunes you're going to see a little progress little circle also indicating
how much time is remaining so this is kind of method one of restoring and setting up this device
based off of an itunes or a finder backup so we have the restore in progress it's going to restore
this device your phone will restart a little progress bar going across with the apple logo
just indicating the restore process is working and then finder and itunes will start to show
you again the same exact screen that we saw before the general the summary you can check for software
updates you can see all the contents that you want to choose to synchronize to your device so now the
phone says restore completed apps and data will continue downloading in the background because
when it does do a restore it usually downloads a fresh copy of any app that you have installed
so we'll touch continue here i don't need to do touch id so i'm going to say don't use
i don't need to create a passcode so don't use passcode and then this is where when you have
apps that you downloaded with your apple id it's going to prompt you and ask you you need to enter
in the password that you used that contains apps that were purchased with this apple id so this is
saying hey you have this apple id and your backup some of the apps and some of the services that you
used you need to sign in so if you skip this step it's not going to load some of the apps it may not
load your text messages your photos so you need to type in your password for that so here we go
type in my password for my apple id and i'll touch next in the top right and then this is
where you get two-step verification this is apple security so naturally the old phone is right here
and this is where it pops up an option that says this apple id wants to use your login
credentials so i need to either allow it or deny it or don't allow so i'm going to choose allow
and what it does is gives me a code that i need to type in for this verification so i'm going
to type that in and now it's going to update the settings and i've used my previous device
to authenticate into this new one now you may be asking well what if you don't have this device
well there's a couple different things that you can do number one you continue the setup
and skip that step and then you can authenticate on this device or you can also authenticate from
a computer or a different method based off of an email that's sent to you or a text message sent
to the phone as well so there are other options that you can to authenticate so from here we're
going to enable location services if you want it goes through some of the the preferences and setup
if you want to change any of these but then pretty much says get started and as i scroll through here
notice it's loading all the apps that i have and any configurations any folders any settings that i
had saved already that were in that backup are now going to be restored to this and again notice it
popped up with a different apple id that i've also used to download and make purchases so i would go
into the settings and notice it says please sign in to restore these apps so i will sign in with
my password there we go choose sign in and now that will download and again another two-step
verification this time notice it popped up on my computer because that is tied to my other apple
id so i'm going to choose allow and then i can type in this code on my phone and now those apps
will start to download so if i go back to the home screen and swipe on here if i go to photos i'll be
able to see all of the photos that were restored in that backup so pretty much everything on here
that's one of the best methods to quickly take your old content and restore it from your computer
to a new device and again this process through the finder is identical in itunes on the windows
computer and using itunes on a previous older version of a mac also and keep in mind if you're
running 10.15 catalina on your mac or newer it uses finder for syncing if you're before 1015
version 10 15 it's going to use itunes so keep that in mind let's go ahead and take a peek on
what it looks like in doing the quick transfer or the quick start and directly transferring
content from a nearby device to your new one let's actually do this so here's the one that's
brand new and it wants you to do the quick start and here's the one right next to it and this is
saying do you want to set up a new phone with this account so here if i choose continue on this phone
it's going to connect it with this iphone so now i have this image this kind of space like image
and it's saying waiting for other phone so what it wants me to do is hold this phone in front of it
to capture that and then it's going to set up this new phone with the information from this old phone
confusing right now again depending on how much content you have on that phone or ipad it could
take a while to transfer it 15 20 30 minutes or so to go from one device to another wirelessly and so
after it does that it gives me an option how do i want to transfer it to either transfer from phone
or if it's linked with icloud it can download that content from icloud so depending on what
content and how much is there there's different times associated for how long it will take
if you touch other options that's just going to bring us back to the main options of where it says
do you want to do an icloud restore do you want to connect to a mac or pc do you want to transfer
from android or do nothing or directly transfer from a device and that's exactly what this is so
here we attach directly from other device and it says okay what settings from your other iphone do
you want to bring over and i can either customize those settings but i'm going to touch continue
and continue i want siri i want all of this continue share audio and this is where it's
saying hey there's a software update do you want to download and install it
so i will do that continue over wi-fi and now it's just going to go through
that process and restore this phone directly from this old phone that's next to it or ipad
and that could take five minutes it could take 30 minutes so we're gonna let that sit and go from
there the last option is to restore from an icloud backup so if i touch restore from an icloud backup
it's going to say what is the apple id that you're using to restore this content from so i would type
in my learn with joel at icloud.com i'll touch next and then it's going to prompt me for the
password type that in touch next in the top right so now it's going to go through and it's going to
look at my account behind the scenes and then it's going to prompt me with different choices
of icloud backups that i've previously had you'll also notice that it's going to say hey just to
verify that this is you and your legitimate type in the passcode that i use on my ipad
so i'm going to type that passcode in to verify that it's me and i'm legitimate and then here
it gives me the option to choose what backup i want to restore from so here i have latest
iphone backup and i have other backups i could say show all backups and it's going
to show me every single backup i think for the past 120 or 180 days i'm not entirely sure but
it gives you a few months worth of backups now this is where you choose which backup you want
obviously i personally would choose the most recent so i'm going to do yesterday at 10 23
with my phone not necessarily the ipad even though i could do the ipad i want to do the phone because
it retains every single setting that my phone has so i'm going to choose yesterday at 10 23
and now it's just gonna go through some of the other settings that i could tweak right now or i
can say continue and again it can either continue or set up later in settings we'll continue
and this is where you're just choosing what preferences you want to do
because the phone itself was not at the latest version it's going to require it to download and
install the latest version and now i have to wait for that to install and then it will restore the
backup pretty much after every process you'll get this apple logo that's going to restart your phone
pretty much restore and put all the content either from the device next to you from the itunes backup
icloud backup and then you'll pretty much be up and running with your new device
so i'll go ahead and press the home button it's going to update the icloud settings maybe prompt
me to sign in it'll verify me in various ways here it gives me an option to say hey i
there's some purchases that were used with this other apple id so we'll type that password in
to verify that choose next and you could skip these steps also and this is where
the computer is going to send me a two-step verification with a code so i'm going to
type that in that way it's verifying that i'm legitimate i'm the person doing this
and it's going to now restore that content so that is pretty much restoring
your new device or replacement device iphone or ipad from a backup you can do it either from mac
or pc computer icloud or direct transfer from one device to another android to new new device so as
you can see lots of different methods of how to restore a new device from an old backup so if you
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