Thursday, November 17, 2011

Sync an iPhone to a Previous Sync

Periodically, when you hook up your iphone to a pc and synchronize it with iTunes, all of the info and applications on the system will be backed up on your personal computer. Apple gives a approach inside of iTunes to restore an iphone from a earlier synchronized backup. This is beneficial if you want to restore info that is misplaced or if you need to have to change your damaged iphone with a new one. The method needs that you link your iphone to your pc with the USB cable offered with the phone.

Hook up the iphone USB cable to the dock connector on the bottom of your phone and plug the other conclude of the cable into an open USB port on your pc.

Open iTunes and make certain that your iphone displays in the left column of the iTunes window below the "Products" heading.

Verify for earlier backups that you have synced from that certain iphone to your personal computer. The best way to locate these backups is to open iTunes Preferences and search underneath units for a listing of unit backups. You can accessibility iTunes preferences by clicking on the iTunes menu in the upper left corner of iTunes for Windows or on the left side of the menu bar in iTunes on a Mac. Seem for a icon named "Units" in the iTunes preferences.

If you see an older backup that was synced earlier in iTunes, make a notice of the name and day and near iTunes preferences.

Uncover your iphone's name on the left side of iTunes underneath the Gadgets heading and then (on a Computer) proper-click it or (on a Mac with 1-button mouse) maintain down the handle crucial and click the mouse button. This opens a pops-up menu subsequent to the name of your iphone.

Seem for the menu choice entitled "Restore from Backup," and then select the backup name that you mentioned formerly.

The restore approach will start, so wait for the old backup of your iphone to totally restore. This approach can consider anyplace from ten to thirty minutes or lengthier, based on the age of your iphone and personal computer and the quantity of info you had set up on the unit. When the restoration completes, you will merely need to have to Check out that your old information is on the phone.

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