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  1. S

    Some oddities after an iphone 6S iCloud Restore

    Yesterday, I went to the Genius Bar for battery testing of my iphone 6S (10.0.2). They did a reset on my phone and a restore from iCloud (fully and recently backed up). Once it was done with the base restoration process (about an hour), I left for home, plugged it in, connected to my wifi, and...
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    Warning: Health App Records Gone When Restoring Backup - A Fix and Tips

    Grabbed a 7 yesterday and noticed all my health data wasn't restored from either my iTunes backup on my Mac Pro6,1 nor my iCloud backup. Fix: To restore your Health history and settings you must make an encrypted backup on your computer in iTunes first, then restore from that backup. I...
  3. S

    Set up as new or restore from iCloud

    On the eve of the next iPhone, I want to pose an age-old question. When you get a new iDevice, do you restore from an iCloud backup or set up as a new iPhone? I used to prefer setting up as a new iPhone. Many of my apps and services are cloud-based, so simply signing into a few things bring...
  4. wozmatic

    Is there a way to restore 1 text message conversation from a backup?

    So I swiped and deleted a message conversation by accident and I would live to restore it. I definitely have a backup on iTunes (August 7) that I could restore it from. My concern is if I restore to that last backup, I would LOSE ALL NEW message history with other contacts. Is there a method...
  5. kindofsleepy

    Headaches doing fresh install of El Capitan

    Hi all! Having a bit of trouble installing El Capitan from a fresh install. I've tried literally just about everything I can think of and before I risk crossing the usage cap from my ISP(damn you ATT) I was hoping someone might have a suggestion I haven't thought of. This all stemmed from what...
  6. halexl

    iPad Inactive iPad (How do I restore?)

    Hello guys, I've the following problem: A customer handed me an iPad 2 (belonging to her son) blocked (inactive), she said that her son changed the password and forgot (he is a child, apparently), when I asked about the iCloud account, she said she does not know what it is. The iPad is running...
  7. B

    Problem restoring iPhone 4S

    Hi, i'm currently having problems restoring my iPhone 4S, recently i had problems with battery so it was replaced with another one. It turns on properly on the battery but when i try to restore i get error 29. The battery was supposedly genuine but still can't restore with iTunes. iPhone...
  8. G

    iPad [HELP]Ipad not restoring

    So i had a jailbroken ipad air on ios 7.X.X I decided to un-jailbreak it and restore it to ios 9.X.X. I waited for the update to download ; then when it started extracting software , itunes came up with an error- "Could not restore". Then my ipad got stuck in an infinite recovery mode cycle...
  9. S

    Recover iMovie Project from Backup

    Does anyone know how to recover an iMovie project from Time Machine? I'm not sure where the default location is where movies are stored. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
  10. E

    HELP IM ON IOS 7.0.3 BUT I WANT TO UPDATE AND RE-JAILBREAK

    Basically, I need help with updating my iphone 5c to an ios high enough to download pokemon go. I've tried restoring to a specific clean .ipsw file of ios 9.1 but my computer just says it's incompatible with my phone or something . I've never encountered this issue before and I've been...
  11. A

    time machine backup on new hard drive questions

    I did a time machine backup to a usb drive. I am going to install a new hard drive today. Can I boot using that time machine backup? Or do I need to be able to use the recovery partition to select time machine backup?
  12. M

    iPad mini locked disabled

    How do I érase my iPad mini. Its locked and disabled. I dont cate about saving content on there. I tried the steps from Apple. I get an error about iPad not able to get requested build or whatever. I checked the host troubleshooting and I use a time capsule as my wifi. No firewall. Are there...
  13. M

    OS X Installation Failed: "got error in writing to minstallconfig.xml"

    So I will try to be thorough but short here: I have a mid 2007, 20" iMac (7,1) that I bought recently and I decided to upgrade it as much as possible. I did a very large amount of research and decided to go with OWC for a SSD (240 Gb) and 6 Gb of RAM (maximum for this computer according to OWC)...
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    Local backup of fresh iPhone

    Is it possible to make a local backup of your iPhone via iTunes or any other program? I always clean up my iPhone and start fresh. It is a pain having to add the Apps that I always use over and over again. For PC and Mac there Is a concept of disk imaging or cloning. I do this with PC and Mac...
  15. JamesMartin

    How to transfer only health data to fresh installed iPod touch

    I've had my iPod touch 6th generation for 3 months and I am starting to see some issues with battery life. I am wanting to full restore this iPod. However I want to be able to transfer only my health data to the fresh install is their any way to do this without restoring from backup and copying...
  16. K

    unsubsribed from shared photo album and cant find album on any ios device

    Hi Experts. I had created a family vacation album as a shared album on icloud photos library. I was inviting a few more people. I have 2 phones (5c and 5s) and have logged in with same apple account on both phones. So whenever i update the shared vacation album it gets updated on both phones...
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    iPhone Cannot restore iCloud backup

    Hi all. Earlier today my iPhone just had a bit of a fit so I did hard restart on it. That was it, it got locked on the Apple logo and would NOT come back to life. I tried to update via iTunes, still the same. So I ended up restoring it. Now I'm trying to restore from my last iCloud backup and...
  18. E

    iPhone restoring to same iOS

    I have iPhone 4s 7.1.2 jailbroken. Can i restore it without update its version?
  19. J

    How to clone an imac

    Hey all, Im having a hard time with this. I manage a school lab full of 30 imacs. Some are late 2015, some are late 2014. I want to create an image of a OSX El Capitan installation WITH 3rd party programs and user settings. I plan to use this image from a External USB hard drive, but I am seeing...
  20. daniham

    Restore Notes

    Just got a computer upgrade through work and IT did the data transfer. I lost all my notes. I know they must be on my time machine backup somewhere (not on iCloud, already looked). When I searched the topic, it looks like they would be in users/library/container, but when I go to users on my...