Getting one's head around how iCloud works.

[nuyorican]

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[ThunderSpook]

Easiest thing is not to use the SE to do the migration. Set it up as a new device and there should be multiple backups to choose from. This is assuming you used to back up to iCloud every night.

Backups for different devices should be listed separately so you can choose one from your broken phone, assuming they haven’t all been overwritten by backups from your SE.

[ThunderSpook]

If you go on to iCloud settings on your new phone and look at backup it should list all the devices it has backups for. I’m not sure if you can see how many backups there are for each device.

[Scarletpimpofnel]

ThunderSpook said:

Easiest thing is not to use the SE to do the migration. Set it up as a new device and there should be multiple backups to choose from. This is assuming you used to back up to iCloud every night.

Backups for different devices should be listed separately so you can choose one from your broken phone, assuming they haven’t all been overwritten by backups from your SE.

Just to ask a question here: In settings I thought you could list what you wanted synched to iCloud (contacts, emails, photos etc). I then assumed that if any of those things changed then the change would be updated to iCloud immediately (assuming you allow iCloud to use mobile data or when next on WiFi otherwise). Is there an option somewhere that you have to tell iCloud when to synch changes?

[ThunderSpook]

Scarletpimpofnel said:

Just to ask a question here: In settings I thought you could list what you wanted synched to iCloud (contacts, emails, photos etc). I then assumed that if any of those things changed then the change would be updated to iCloud immediately (assuming you allow iCloud to use mobile data or when next on WiFi otherwise). Is there an option somewhere that you have to tell iCloud when to synch changes?

Things like contacts and photos should update immediately. Things like settings will only be saved on an overnight backup.

[nuyorican]

Thanks guys. It's starting to become clear how it all works now.

One last thing: It appears I had turned off 'sync photos to icloud' on the broken phone some time before my holiday. Not understanding iCloud I think I just preferred to import photos over to my Mac occasionally. So, all holiday pics stuck on broken phone, not synced to iCloud. Yeah, typical right.

So are there any utilities for retrieving data from an iphone that won't boot up? I've done this with Windows drives in the past. But looking online just seems to be endless dodgy looking websites or infuriating YouTube vids that spend about ten minutes begging for you to like comment and subscribe, before telling you to download your photos from iCloud... .

If those photos are lost then fair enough, it's part of the learning curve but may as well exhaust all options.

[Scarletpimpofnel]

nuyorican said:

Thanks guys. It's starting to become clear how it all works now.

One last thing: It appears I had turned off 'sync photos to icloud' on the broken phone some time before my holiday. Not understanding iCloud I think I just preferred to import photos over to my Mac occasionally. So, all holiday pics stuck on broken phone, not synced to iCloud. Yeah, typical right.

So are there any utilities for retrieving data from an iphone that won't boot up? I've done this with Windows drives in the past. But looking online just seems to be endless dodgy looking websites or infuriating YouTube vids that spend about ten minutes begging for you to like comment and subscribe, before telling you to download your photos from iCloud... .

If those photos are lost then fair enough, it's part of the learning curve but may as well exhaust all options.

I dare say the likes of GCHQ could do it! But that may be a deniable service that they won't be offering you! Suggest you call an Apple shop and ask them, best to get it done properly if it is possible.