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Minorite

Reminder for those who'll upgrade to iOS 14 beta: save your iOS 13 backups and keep an eye on them!!!

I think I'll repost this when public beta will roll out, but due to a lot of "non-devs" having access to dev accounts and dev betas, it makes sense to post now as well.

For the love of all cute ponies in this world, DO NOT forget to save your iOS 13 backup to an external drive before updating to iOS 14. Each year we have an army of people that forget to do this and then spam with "Help to save my data!!" after overwriting original backup (if there even was any).

It's extremely easy, just copy the folder with the weird name from ~/MobileSync/Backup folder to an external drive, then put it back when you need to restore (how to find the backup).

Hope this helps someone and don't forget to do your weekly backups.

Posted Jun 23, 2020, 12:57 PM UTC

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Rocket_Pup1•

Don’t worry, I made sure to backup before and save it externally, shouldn’t have any issues but apple did say there can be a installation problem installing iOS 14 atm

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Aema•

I haven’t forgotten what a dumpster fire iOS 13 was, so I’m trying not to get excited about iOS 14 features yet.

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MinoriteOP•

Well, redesigned incoming call screen is worth of several iterations of battery drain :D

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Aema•

I disagree, but to each their own. The call screen is a “nice to have” feature, but having my phone die after 4 hours on idle would be a serious issue for me.

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