9900:Resurgence of popularity!
Originally Posted by
Bbnivende Then I do not understand your need for a PC. I was able to reinstall an OS on a iPhone using the cloud back up of the phone that was available via connecting to my iPad iTunes. The Apple rep even talked me through the procedure on the phone.
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I swore off PC's with Microsoft in 2010. I had a lot of trouble with them, and twice spending $130 to remove viruses from either Limewire or Myspace back in the day. Yes I had Norton, and at various times Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy, remember those? But for me it just wasn't worth it. I also had a beautiful little Nokia C3 that looked exactly like a BLackberry with a full PKB that only lasted 7 months because I had around 800 songs on it and they were Limewire infested with viruses. So at the same time I lost my PC and my Nokia. That was why I went to Apple in 2010 and had good luck with them. I was one of the first in my city to have an ipad first Gen, and no one was writing viruses for Apple at that tine. They were more of a curiosity, a toy, something so new that everyone laughed at them.
But as for connecting an iphone to an ipad with a cable? I have never done that. No need. I use Air Drop if I needed to transfer pics, etc. I had automatic updates turned ON so ios 9 is long gone for me on my icloud. it saves everytime wifi is turned on.....automatically and it would have saved ios 10 because that was the last I was using. To go back to ios 9 from icloud is not possible I thought, IF automatic icloud "Backup" is turned on.
Anyway I do have automatic "Backup" turned ON with the iphone so that means if I do reinstall my icloud file back to the 5C, it will reinstall whatever I had at the time of the last iphone wiping of all the data. (apps and settings, but not OS, I believe) So what I am thinking of doing is I could set it up as a "New Device" (and not initially using the icloud backup that is saved) and immediately do the new ios update to 10.1 and THEN wipe the device clean again, and then re-set up as an "Existing Device" so that after the new 10.1 is installed, I can then reinstall all the apps and email settings I had from before from the cloud.
Hope that is clear or makes sense. Because I think that once you have wiped an iphone clean, you have to set up as an "Existing device" when they ask during the new set up and if you do that you will still be using the old OS that was on it before.
I know, it's complicated.....
The only problem is the iphone wants the sim card installed before I can install the new ios 10.1 and I am leary to do this because it risks messing up my service books again on the 9900. I don't think I am going to be switching back and forth like I have been so often, like every week or two, it can have consequences as I found out.....
"The 99's charms will tug at your heart. Nothing else ever approached such exquisite perfection"-idssteve
9900:Resurgence of popularity!