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I've been updating my iPhone 8 Plus with iMazing (Windows 10) and backing it up periodically. This has worked without any issues.
The problem started last week, when the need for restoring from backup came up. The restore process started and around 3/4 of way through, it stopped and gave this error:
Repeated attempts resulted in the same error message.
Contacted iMazing and support advised, quote:
That's not my preference, but pretty much had no choice, initiated the restore with the erasing the device option enabled. And erase it did; when the iPhone restarted, it greeted me with the welcome screen just like the first time I've started up this device. At one point, iMazing app took over and restored the device from backup. That's an overstatement, since quite of few things had to be restored manually.
The Apple ID disappeared and initially, the password did not work. The reason being that the 2FA was active and the iPhone, that had not been verified as of yet, could not receive the text with the PIN. It's annoying at best and downright nasty, if you cannot get it by different means. Luckily, I remembered to login in on my MBP and get the text message there, but it took me awhile to remember.
Once that step had been done and evaluated the restored iPhonequite a few things had not been restored, like the finger prints, downloaded apps, Wallet with CCs, ringtones for family members, some of the settings, etc., disappeared. All the local music files, added to the iPhone from my CDs, had disappeared as well. It took me about an hour or so to set back everything where it was. Prior to erasing the iPhone, the storage size was 34 GB, after restore it shows 26 GB; that's eight GB of storage freed up. Some of the freed up storage could be related to wiping out all of the Apple logs, failed iMazing restore, etc., but that's just my guess.
Is this the normal procedure to restore with iMazing?
If you use iMazing restore feature, do you enable the 'Erase target devices' switch?
TIA...
PS: This is the first time the restore function had been used. Maybe I didn't understand what it has backed up, but my expectation was higher than this...
The problem started last week, when the need for restoring from backup came up. The restore process started and around 3/4 of way through, it stopped and gave this error:
Repeated attempts resulted in the same error message.
Contacted iMazing and support advised, quote:
Can you please make sure to check the option 'Erase target devices' before restoring your backup? Wiping the device does not affect iOS, only the user data on the device (which will be wiped anyway during backup restoration).
That's not my preference, but pretty much had no choice, initiated the restore with the erasing the device option enabled. And erase it did; when the iPhone restarted, it greeted me with the welcome screen just like the first time I've started up this device. At one point, iMazing app took over and restored the device from backup. That's an overstatement, since quite of few things had to be restored manually.
The Apple ID disappeared and initially, the password did not work. The reason being that the 2FA was active and the iPhone, that had not been verified as of yet, could not receive the text with the PIN. It's annoying at best and downright nasty, if you cannot get it by different means. Luckily, I remembered to login in on my MBP and get the text message there, but it took me awhile to remember.
Once that step had been done and evaluated the restored iPhonequite a few things had not been restored, like the finger prints, downloaded apps, Wallet with CCs, ringtones for family members, some of the settings, etc., disappeared. All the local music files, added to the iPhone from my CDs, had disappeared as well. It took me about an hour or so to set back everything where it was. Prior to erasing the iPhone, the storage size was 34 GB, after restore it shows 26 GB; that's eight GB of storage freed up. Some of the freed up storage could be related to wiping out all of the Apple logs, failed iMazing restore, etc., but that's just my guess.
Is this the normal procedure to restore with iMazing?
If you use iMazing restore feature, do you enable the 'Erase target devices' switch?
TIA...
PS: This is the first time the restore function had been used. Maybe I didn't understand what it has backed up, but my expectation was higher than this...