I can confirm that one cannot restore settings from an iPhone to an iPad. You will be told this when setting up an iPad from a backup from iPhone and probably iPod too. > On 13 Jun 2015, at 15:00, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > They don't take versions into account, unless you're trying to restore one I > O S device to a different type device. IE, you can't restore your settings > from an IPhone on to an IPad. Trust me, I should know. I tried. Further, > if the backup was made with a newer version of I O S than you're restoring > to, it won't work. > > Chris. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Daniel Miller >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 9:51 AM >> Subject: Re: Success >> >> Hi. I tried that twice last night, with no success each time. 8.3 would >> restore back to my phone, but iTunes refused to restore the backup saying >> the software on the phone was too old. Any tips on what I might be doing >> wrong? Or if I might be potentially screwed? One backup was before I put >> nine on, and the other one was with nine. I could've sworn iTunes backups >> didn't take device versions into account though, but apparently they do. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jun 13, 2015, at 7:13 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland >> <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> OK, I can now safely and concretely confirm absolutely beyond a shadow of a >>> doubt that Apple is wrong in what they say on the dev web site. Yes, you >>> most certainly can! downgrade from I O S 9 back to I O S 8.3. I just >>> diddit, and even restored my 8.3 backup, and it worked absolutely >>> flawlessly. >>> >>> Just goes to show why I don't always read disclaimers. Usually I will, but >>> not always. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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