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You only lose data if you’re not backing up your phone - it’s not a corruption bug that breaks the ability to restore backups (like one of the iOS iOS 11 develo
by floatingatoll 7y ago
You only lose data if you’re not backing up your phone - it’s not a corruption bug that breaks the ability to restore backups (like one of the iOS iOS 11 developer betas did).
- peterkelly 7y agoThat's like saying that with a faulty hard drive you can only lose data if you're not backing it up.
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoWell that’s not wrong.
- floatingatoll 7y agoClose, but imprecise. I’m saying two things: You can lose data with a faulty hard drive if your backup is silently corrupted and you don’t realize it. That’s not a risk here, as long as before restoring from backup you upgrade the phone OS to patch the bug. Also, you can lose data with a faulty hard drive if you have no backup. Rooters especially will care about these points since they typically cannot restore from backups without upgrading the phone away from a rooted version, due to choices made by Apple in firmware.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoActually, if an iCloud erase works, it should be possible for Jailbreakers to recover their phones without updating. Mind, they will still loose data, including some Jailbreak stuff that isn't included in iTunes backups.
- pvg 7y agoYou can still lose data because you can't really back up the whole phone with standard tools.