Issue Restoring to Latest Backup

[SMIDG3T]

Hi all.

This is a little confusing but I'll cut the story short.

Decided to put iOS 8 on my iPhone, had issues so I did a full restore and now iOS 7 is back on it.

However, I've had to restore as new because I couldn't find the backup from last night, 1836.

When I go to the settings on my phone, it says last backup: 1836 but when I look on iTunes the 1836 backup isn't there.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Anybody?

Is no-one replying because it's that obvious or no-one actually knows?

 

[rritterson]

You can't restore an iOS 8 backup to an iOS 7 device. Was the latest backup made on iOS 8 or 7?

Did you backup to iTunes or iCloud? To restore from iCloud backup, restore to iOS7 again and then setup the phone on the phone instead of through iTunes.

 

[TheKrs1]

You can't restore an iOS 8 backup to an iOS 7 device. Was the latest backup made on iOS 8 or 7?

Did you backup to iTunes or iCloud? To restore from iCloud backup, restore to iOS7 again and then setup the phone on the phone instead of through iTunes.

^This. If you backed up to iCloud and allowed iOS 8 to run an auto icloud backup, you cannot recover your backup in iOS7. Hopefully you have a copy of your backup in iTunes from iOS 7?

 

[crazyman3005]

About to install ios8 now....when it installs, I should opt to do the iCloud back up when it turns on right, as I would usually, or do I restore with my iTunes hard copy back up?

 

[SMIDG3T]

You can't restore an iOS 8 backup to an iOS 7 device. Was the latest backup made on iOS 8 or 7?

Did you backup to iTunes or iCloud? To restore from iCloud backup, restore to iOS7 again and then setup the phone on the phone instead of through iTunes.

The latest backup was from iOS 8.

Anyway, I've just started all over, now on 7.1.1. Going to wait until beta 3 at least before I do that again.

Thanks.

 

[Stuke00]

The latest backup was from iOS 8.

Anyway, I've just started all over, now on 7.1.1. Going to wait until beta 3 at least before I do that again.

Thanks.

Make sure you get a backup of 7.1.1 and keep it in iTunes.

 

[SMIDG3T]

Make sure you get a backup of 7.1.1 and keep it in iTunes.

Yep, it's backed up to iCloud and iTunes now. Thanks.