Hey guys, I have backed up my iPhone 6 Plus 128 GB to my laptop and now I want to restore this backup onto my old iPhone 5 16 GB model. But, I only want the Contacts, Notes & Apps from my 6 Plus Backup to be restored onto my iPhone 5 because my iPhone 5 16 GB has too little storage and so the whole 6 Plus backup won't fit. How can I do this? MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
So the question here is quite clear: how to selectively restore iPhone 6 Plus backup data onto iPhone 5? Sometimes, you need to consider the space on your iPhone when restoring from iTunes backup, just like the above user did. He wanted to selectively restore contacts and notes from iPhone 6 Plus backup to iPhone 5 due to space limitation. Thus, is it possible to restore part data from iPhone 6 Plus iTunes backup to iPhone 5? Of course yes. You can easily restore iPhone 6 Plus backup data to iPhone 5 selectively so long as within the help from iFonebox. Here, I will show you how to selectively restore contacts and notes from iPhone 6 Plus backup to iPhone 5.
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As mentioned above, iFonebox is a professional iTunes backup extractor software which enables you to extract and restore data like contacts or notes from backup selectively. Also, it is suitable to recover data from iCloud backup selectively. Plus, iFonebox is a great helper to recover deleted or lost text messages, contacts, notes, wechat messages, etc, from iPhone or iPad directly. What's more, you can transfer recovered contacts and notes back to your iPhone directly via iFonebox. So cool.
It is necessary to download and install iFonebox on your computer firstly if want to selectively restore contacts and notes from iTunes backup to iPhone 5. There are two versions accessible: Windows version and Mac version.
How to selectively restore iPhone 6 Plus backup to iPhone 5?
Launch iFonebox. Choose Recover from iTunes Backup mode. All iTunes backup files will be displayed and detected by iFonebox. So you can pick out your iPhone 6 Plus backup data to start scanning process. Remember to connect your iPhone 5 to the computer so as to transfer contacts and notes back to it. Click Select button to begin.
Scan notes and contacts from selected iTunes backup. You can click on Contacts and Notes item to scan. Scan them one by one.
Preview and select contacts/notes to restore. After scanning, you have the chance to view those contacts and notes and then, select them and click Recover to Device button to transfer them back to your iPhone 5.
That's it. Now you have successfully restored iPhone 6 Plus backed up contacts and notes to your iPhone 5 selectively within the help from iFonebox, so convenient and amazing.
