New Iphone - full backup to cloud but selective restore ?

jaykay74

Hi,

I don't know much about Iphone. My sister has an iphone 4 is getting a 6 for Christmas. She wants to keep her phone numbers and settings/apps but not her photos. She has thousands and just wants those left in the cloud not locally on the phone. Is this easy to do as part of the restore process or do I need to manually remove them from the phone or..? Any tips welcome.

Thanks

Zcott

It's not possible to do a selective restore, unfortunately...it's all or nothing at all. The best way to do it would be to create a manual backup of all the photos on her computer, then use iCloud or Google to sync the phone numbers and then just re download the apps as necessary.

jaykay74

Zcott wrote: »

It's not possible to do a selective restore, unfortunately...it's all or nothing at all. The best way to do it would be to create a manual backup of all the photos on her computer, then use iCloud or Google to sync the phone numbers and then just re download the apps as necessary.

Thanks! Shame, seems to be something lacking in the functionality then. What about selective backup ? If I can ignore the photos in the backup then I can restore all from the cloud to the new phone and deal with the photos on the old phone later. Otherwise I have to deal with the photos on the old phone first I guess..

curly.bert

You could just copy all the photos off the iPhone 4, to Picasa/iPhoto/whatever, then delete them all off the phone. Afterwards, do a new backup and restore the iPhone 6 with this new photo-less backup.

Quite easy to do - not much involved at all, so won't take much time

jaykay74

curly.bert wrote: »

You could just copy all the photos off the iPhone 4, to Picasa/iPhoto/whatever, then delete them all off the phone. Afterwards, do a new backup and restore the iPhone 6 with this new photo-less backup.

Quite easy to do - not much involved at all, so won't take much time

Thanks. Might have to do that. Not so simple as we are all at our folks house for Christmas so old pc, nothing particularly useful installed on the pc etc.

Would be better if solution was just phone - cloud - phone but doesn't seem practical from what ye guys say. Thanks for the tips!

guil

Not sure if it's available on an iPhone 4 but look in iCloud in settings and see is iCloud photo library there, if it is you can upload them all to it and then don't download them to the new phone.

curly.bert

Has she already got her photos backed up? If so, just delete all the photos, do an iCloud backup and you're good to go.