Update: The phone was stolen, I guess. Its been turned on and off a few times since its gone missing. The message to contact or turn into police for reward etc. has been ignored. I don't know why someone wants an iphone 4s with a broken screen.. but they do.
I am now using phone B (a iphone 5 a friend has given me). I would still love to get the old one back for the pictures, but have given up.
Its about time I wipe the old phone remotely, if I can. That doesnt really make much sense to me other than if it is every logged onto with wifi it will die.
I have the new(er) phone already set up and using, but did a clean reprogram because there was a ton of stuff on my old phone that was just not being used. I thought I could then pull off my contacts and notes from the back up individually, but apparently that is not a thing.
I have an itunes backup from about January that I can go back to for my old contacts and such. But I dont want the full restore. Is there a way to extract the contacts or whatever from the itunes backup without having to reset everything?
TLR (update): Gave up. Have replacement. Only want to add back contacts (is this possible?) by extracting data from itunes backup.
Long story short, on about a 3 mile trip from my house to the store and back, I lost my old iphone. Turns out "Find my iphone" only works if the phone is powered on. I'm one of the lucky ones who doesnt have a 'most recent location' pop up.
There is a lot of pictures of my new child on my phone. And, as luck would have it, I haven't backed them up.
I've torn apart my house and car, I walked up and down my street, and I have called every store in the area/parking area to see if someone turned it in.
Now, it makes zero sense to me that someone would steal a 4s with a crack in it.. but who knows.
My question is if I change over to a new phone like my old iphone 4s or an android I have laying around and in a couple weeks I find it on some shelf somewhere that I missed in my house destruction, will the lost iphone 4s still retain the data and pictures?
tl;dr - does a temporary replacement phone wipe out an existing phone's picture/data/etc?
Very much appreciate it. I can't seem to google an answer that satisfies me as far as its validity.
Also - on verizon's network. don't know if that matters to the question.
I am now using phone B (a iphone 5 a friend has given me). I would still love to get the old one back for the pictures, but have given up.
Its about time I wipe the old phone remotely, if I can. That doesnt really make much sense to me other than if it is every logged onto with wifi it will die.
I have the new(er) phone already set up and using, but did a clean reprogram because there was a ton of stuff on my old phone that was just not being used. I thought I could then pull off my contacts and notes from the back up individually, but apparently that is not a thing.
I have an itunes backup from about January that I can go back to for my old contacts and such. But I dont want the full restore. Is there a way to extract the contacts or whatever from the itunes backup without having to reset everything?
TLR (update): Gave up. Have replacement. Only want to add back contacts (is this possible?) by extracting data from itunes backup.
Long story short, on about a 3 mile trip from my house to the store and back, I lost my old iphone. Turns out "Find my iphone" only works if the phone is powered on. I'm one of the lucky ones who doesnt have a 'most recent location' pop up.
There is a lot of pictures of my new child on my phone. And, as luck would have it, I haven't backed them up.
I've torn apart my house and car, I walked up and down my street, and I have called every store in the area/parking area to see if someone turned it in.
Now, it makes zero sense to me that someone would steal a 4s with a crack in it.. but who knows.
My question is if I change over to a new phone like my old iphone 4s or an android I have laying around and in a couple weeks I find it on some shelf somewhere that I missed in my house destruction, will the lost iphone 4s still retain the data and pictures?
tl;dr - does a temporary replacement phone wipe out an existing phone's picture/data/etc?
Very much appreciate it. I can't seem to google an answer that satisfies me as far as its validity.
Also - on verizon's network. don't know if that matters to the question.
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