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Originally Posted by Chocaholic

Or, just back it up to the cloud. Mine backs up automatically. Set up new phone and voila!

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

This ^^^^

Everything now has planned obsolescence.

I suspect that mostly only works if you're running a relatively current version of IOS.

If you upgrade from a X or 11 to a 13, then you can probably backup and restore.

If you were running a dinosaur (5 or 5S) and on an older version of IOS, you probably won't have much luck doing a restore to a new phone.

Imagine, you're running Win 95 on a PC with an Intel 486SX processor and 4MB of RAM. You create a backup of Win 95 and then get a brand new PC running Windows 10 and try to restore your Win 95 settings to Win 10. You're not going to have any luck with that.

If you had a bunch of files, images, word docs, etc..., you would probably be able to transfer those somehow. But a restore won't work.

I believe the current version of IOS is 64-bit. I believe older versions were 32-bit (which is why you sometimes lose access to some apps after an upgrade). When exactly that change was made, I'm not sure (ie, IOS 12 --> 13 or ...).