Hello all. I've noticed that backup and restore this not include your call log or text messages. I backed up my iPhone and copied it over to a new phone, but while the apps and the contacts were there, past phone calls and text messages were not. Is it possible to make those over as well?
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Transfer call/text history?
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Ok, weird then. Should work.
So you created a current backup of your old iPhone and restored that one to your new iPhone? Not an older backup?
And then recent calls and Messages were empty on the new iPhone, or outdated?
Could you provide more details (iPhone models, versions of iOS, Mac/PC iTunes version)?
I would simply try it again. New backup, and then restore.
And in iTunes make sure you have selected the "Encrypt iPhone backup" option for your old iPhone.
So you created a current backup of your old iPhone and restored that one to your new iPhone? Not an older backup?
And then recent calls and Messages were empty on the new iPhone, or outdated?
Could you provide more details (iPhone models, versions of iOS, Mac/PC iTunes version)?
I would simply try it again. New backup, and then restore.
And in iTunes make sure you have selected the "Encrypt iPhone backup" option for your old iPhone.
If your texts are synced with “iCloud for Messages” on the old phone, then text messages aren’t part of the backup. The solution is to turn on “iCloud for Messages” on the new phone, to sync them down from iCloud.
Why is that gone?
Oh wait, maybe I’m thinking of voicemails? Because I still have those going back over a decade.