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restoring contacts on iphone

in restoring contacts on my iphone using icloud i found that it only had one week or so of backups - how can i restore back one month?

iPhone 6, iOS 12

Posted on Aug 27, 2020 12:47 PM

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Posted on Aug 27, 2020 12:51 PM

Bill-3 wrote:

i found that it only had one week or so of backups

Backups are not archives. Backups Store your recent data to help you in case your hardware fails.


Archives - if they existed - would be used to go back in history. Archives are not part of the iPhone ecostructure.

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Aug 27, 2020 12:51 PM in response to Bill-3

Bill-3 wrote:

i found that it only had one week or so of backups

Backups are not archives. Backups Store your recent data to help you in case your hardware fails.


Archives - if they existed - would be used to go back in history. Archives are not part of the iPhone ecostructure.

Aug 27, 2020 12:57 PM in response to Bill-3

In addition to what sberman stated in his response to you, you could have archived backups if you were using a computer to backup your iPhone in addition to iCloud. You can archive computer backups (iTunes or Finder in macOS Catalina). This is a moot point, at this time, since you are only discussing iCloud backups. My response if just for a future reference.


Axel F.

restoring contacts on iphone

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