Re: [Techno-Chat]: Phone backups was Apple's iOS11

[Travis Siegel]

there are two kinds of backups you can perform with an IOS device. The 
first, (and most often) is an icloud backup, that will backup your apps 
and (some) app data to the icloud account you have.  Of course, if you 
only have the free one, then 5GB is all you have, and for almost all 
iPhone models, this isn't sufficient to do a complete backup, so you 
won't get a lot of things that are on the phone.
The second type of backup is one on your local machine.  This one does 
backup everything, including app data, and if you check it, it will even 
backup passwords you have on the device.  I never use that option, 
mostly because I don't save passwords on any device or browser, but 
that's just me.  If you use the itunes backup of the phone, it will 
restore your phone to the same status it was after the last full 
backup.  I've used this to copy one iPhone 4S to another iPhone 4S, and 
after the restore, both phones were identical as far as content and app 
data.  It didn't work quite as well for me when I went from my 5 (which 
I dropped, that no longer worked very well), to my new SE, but that was 
largely because I had two phones (the 4S and the 5 that really needed to 
be restored to the new SE, and of course, apple doesn't support that 
kind of mixed restoring (though why that is is a mystery.  It's not hard 
to click restore, and say anything that isn't already on the phone, add 
it from this backup).  So, my shiny new SE (which my wife knocked out of 
my hands once already, and now the phone gets rather warm after long 
use, which it didn't do before being knocked to the floor), it works 
fairly well, even if I did have to reinstall lots of apps via download, 
although, some of those apps lost app data, and had to be setup again 
from scratch, because they had no way to transfer the information from 
the old app to the new phone.  I have no idea why apps that allow you to 
login to the cloud, and/or the game center don't recover your data 
properly when you enter your credentials, but I'm guessing it's because 
they don't actually keep anything useful on the gamecenter servers, like 
what your name is, and what your progress was, but that is only a minor 
irritation.  I lost progress in a lot of time wasters, but honestly, I'm 
not all that mad about that, since (as mentioned) they were mostly time 
wasters, and not something critical, so it doesn't really matter that my 
progress was lost, since gaming isn't something I take all that 
seriously anyhow for the most part.

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