Restoring an iPhone 11 with an iOS 13.1 backup is ... complicated
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The path to restoring your new iPhone 11 from an iOS 13.1 backup will be long and winding. If you`re planning on getting an iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, or iPhone 11 Pro Max on launch day, you may run into an issue if you`ve been on the iOS 13 beta track this summer and plan to restore your new iPhone from a backup. If you updated to the iOS 13.1 beta when Apple released it in August, the backups you`ve made since then have all been on iOS 13.1. This is a problem if the phone on which you`ve installed the beta is also the phone from which you plan to restore your new iPhone, which, by all indications, ships with iOS 13.0. Here`s what you`ll need to do to restore your new iPhone 11 from a backup of a phone on the iPhone 13.1 beta. The problem The solution After the upgrade: Erasing your iPhone Restoring your iPhone from a backup The problem Because iOS 13.1 is a later version of iOS than 13.0, backups, whether to iCloud or iTunes, can only be restored to devices running iOS 13.1 or l...