iPhone 4S upgrade to iPhone 5S

Westdene Seagull

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• Jan 17, 2014

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So my partner in her wisdom has just upgraded her iPhone to a 5S. I've managed after much pain to back her old phone up using iTunes and "restored" it to the iPhone 5S. She used to have a 32Gb 4S and now has a 16Gb 5S which obviously means she can't fit everything from her old phone on the new one.

Despite 20+ years of working in PROPER IT, I can't for the life of me delete the photos from iTunes ( local copy on a PC ) so that they don't get synced to the new phone ( the lovely bar across the bottom of iTunes shows 8Gb of photos which I need to dump ).

What is the quickest and easiest way to get the backup of the old phone restored to the new phone ( contacts, apps, music but NO photos ) ?

Grrrr ...... I hate Apple !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's bloody easy with Windows and Android phones !

 

Bozza

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• Jan 17, 2014

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Old phone -> iCloud backup. Turn off photos as part of the backup.

New phone -> reset to default. Start again and restore the iCloud backup when you configure the phone. It will be exactly the sane as the old phone.

 

Goldstone1976

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• Jan 17, 2014

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Bozza said:

Old phone -> iCloud backup. Turn off photos as part of the backup.

New phone -> reset to default. Start again and restore the iCloud backup when you configure the phone. It will be exactly the sane as the old phone.

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Saved me posting exactly the same!

 

Westdene Seagull

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• Jan 17, 2014

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• #4

Bozza said:

Old phone -> iCloud backup. Turn off photos as part of the backup.

New phone -> reset to default. Start again and restore the iCloud backup when you configure the phone. It will be exactly the sane as the old phone.

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iCloud limit = 5Gb
Phone minus photos = 10Gb

How do I do that ?

 

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virtual22

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• Jan 17, 2014

• #5

Why not just delete the photos off the phone, do a local back up to the computer of the old phone using itunes, then restore the back up onto the new phone?