#Cant find the right backup iphone how to
#Cant find the right backup iphone mac

bining the XS, sticking with the SE (and for me the SE is a better phone as it fits in my pocket, has good battery life, and better wifi signal than the XS),.

She escalated it to her manager, who also had no more ideas. So there seems to be a bug where a new iphone cannot restore any backups.

#Cant find the right backup iphone mac

On a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier, or on a PC: Open iTunes. From here, right-click on the backup that you want, then choose Show in Finder, or select Delete or Archive. Now, with that info on your clipboard, close this file and go back to the backup folder. Under the General tab, click Manage Backups to see a list of your backups. Copy all the text from the begining all the way up through. Open the file ist, that is an xml formated file. Finally, we put the phone in rescue mode, and tried that route. At the very bottom of the file list you should find this file: ist. Then I upgraded the XS to ios 13, something I didn't want to do. We reset the phone to factory settings and did the whole process again, which her watching every step. I went round in circles for 5 hours straight. Above this is a 'Restore iphone' which is not greyed out, but when I click on this the only option is to 'restore' the XS to factory settings. The on-screen map will show the approximate location of your lost iPhone. Click on All Devices and select your missing iPhone. Locate the Find My iPhone icon and click on it. Connect your computer to the internet and visit.

#Cant find the right backup iphone how to

When I connect the XS to itunes via usb, it shows no backups, and the 'restore backup' is greyed out. Below is how to find your iPhone if it’s dead using a computer. So next step is to manually restore the SE backup to the XS. I'll never switch it on again and avoid this 'bug' in the future. 2 hours of googling and searching later I finally managed to switch off this feature on both phones. The first hurdle is the error message saying it cant do anything with restore because find my iphone is on. So the 'auto transfer' thing fails or course, and it says I have to manually setup the phone, then manually restore from backup. Now I am trying to setup my new iphone XS. I have a second hard drive (which is not system drive) inside the system unit which contains data which needs to be backed up regularly. Step 3: When the scanning process is complete, select the missing text messages from the results displayed and click 'Recover'. In the next window, select the file type you wish to recover (in this case Message). When I have my SE connected to itunes, I see my backups. Step 2: Select the iTunes backup file that likely contains the missing text messages and click 'Next'. I can backup to itunes via usb (I dont use or have icloud) (encrypted of course).