The New iPad iOS 5.1 -How To Backup Your iPhone Contacts, Pictures And Game Data On iTunes

How To Backup Your iPhone Contacts, Pictures And Game Data On iTunes

This short guide will help you with iPhone back up and to restore iphone via itunes.You can save your iPhone contacts, game data, pictures , music and iphone application data using itunes back up. You can restore from itunes back up anytime in furture. Restoring iPhone from a back up is also covered in this tutorial. 

Steps to Back up your iPhone:

Step 1: Connect your iOS device to iTunes via the connection cable and launch iTunes.

Step 2: Wait for iTunes to show your device details then right click on your device name and select back up my iPhone option. iTunes will now backup your iphone contacts, recent call logs, messages, photos, application data, music and everything.

Your iPhone data is now backed up in iTunes and you can restore it anytime.

You can follow this method before performing jailbreak or updating to any new firmware upgrade like iOS 5.1

If you rely on ultrasn0w software unlock then you might have to upgrade you iPhone without updating your baseband. Complete tutorial of upgrading iPhone with out updating the baseband has already been discussed in previous posts.

Restoring from backup:


After installing or updating your iPhone, follow the steps to restore from iTunes back up.

Here, instead of selecting the option Set Up as new iPhone, select Restore from iTunes.

Once you select the option Restore from iTunes, your screen should appear like the screen shot below. Connect your iPhone to your computer and launch iTunes and the restore process will begin.

Once iTunes finishes restoring the content of your iPhone, you'll see the following on your screen. You may now select Start Using iPhone and your iPhone will be updated to the latest iOS 5.1 with your files successfully restored.