Ok, here's the story: I'm currently using an iPhone 3G and I have many apps and games in it. In case you're curious, they're all purchased legally from AppStore and my iPhone has never been jailbroken - not even once. Now, my parents fall in love with iPhone. My dad loves Safari and Mail, while my mum loves many simple / puzzle games like Up There, Scoops and Subway Shuffle. As a result, they're gonna buy the next gen iPhone in July and swap that new one with my current iPhone. They said they're content with what iPhone 3G can do and not too interested in the next-gen hardware update. Problem is, can I move / transfer my games to the new iPhone? And will I lose all my progress in Sway, Zen Bound, Snail Mail and other games? Is there any way to transfer the games intact with my progress?
Don't quote me, as I've never done it personally, but I believe the iTunes backups can help you with this.
I think you can. What you need to do is to setup the new phone as if it were your current your phone using your iTunes backup. Once this is done, your parents can just reset your current phone. In any case, I think this is the wrong forum to ask. You should go to a genius bar or an Apple hotline
When was the new iPhone announced??? I know one way but you have to be jailbroken so it probably won't help you.
Yea When I jailbroke I just backed everything up and it was saved Or you can jailbreak and get the app that does it But then you would still have to back up.....
Then how come when you delete a game from your iDevice, then sync it again later on from itunes, it doesn't retain save files.
Either one of two things The save game is saved in the application itself so it deleted the save with the app Or it is saved, you just have to sync them back from iTunes not re-install directly to the device
I think saved games as stored as part of the game application itself, so if you uninstall the game, you are uninstalling all your saved games for that game. But what donkei is asking is different. For his case, we can just transfer his entire iPhone backup profile (all settings, all applications, etc) to the new phone.
Yea. Further instruction is Back up your phone Then sync your new iPhone as a copy of your olde phone backup Then just restore your old iPhone and you are good to go
Could you share this with me? I had an iPod Touch First generation 8GB and Just today I bought a new iPod Touch Second Generation 16GB. How do I transfer my saved progress and stuff?
What I do is SSH in to var/mobile/applications, find the app I want (or all the apps) and transfer the files to my desktop. Then I restore as a new phone, jailbreak, SSH back to var/mobile/applications and replace my apps with the old ones that were on my desktops, saved data and all. I only do this when restore as a new phone. If you restore from a backup of your old phone it will also restore your saved data. So I'm guessing that the "new iPhone" hasn't been announced.
Yes it can be transferred. BACK UP your current ipod and make sure you dont overwrite it by accident with the new iphone RESTORE the data back onto the Iphone You'll have all the saves.
1. Can we really do that? I have no idea as I only have 1 iDevice now, but shouldn't iTunes know the new iPhone is different to the old one? 2. Then what about the old iPhone? Can it still be synced to my Mac or does it have to be synced to another Mac? I want to transfer a few apps and games to that one, it's possible without having to repurchase them right? The new iPhone has never been announced, but looking at many rumours site (eg: Macrumors, which is owned by TouchArcade owner too), it seems certain there will be a new iPhone by July. No one knows the specs: whether or not there will be a low-end iPhone, if it will have bigger memory, better camera, faster processor and all that. I really don't want to jailbreak my iPhone. I know some of you will say it's easy, but I just don't feel like messing around. Some apps & games apparently don't appreciate jailbreak too. Most importantly, it's my iPhone. I would probably wouldn't mind playing around if I have an iPod Touch as it's not my communication device.
