Post #1266571

2026-03-09 22:07 UTC

@Eggfreckles I just don’t have the stomach to do backup and restores via macOS, I just don’t. Maybe I should, but I was under the impression that I still had to login to everything again that way. This way (which worked 4th time, although the other iPad still thinks it’s doing a transfer), my tabs and cookies and app logins largely remained the same. Which is what I wanted. Would any of that persist on a backup to a Mac?

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@vanitalo@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 22:23

@film_girl @Eggfreckles It’s been a while since I had to do it but I think the backup to Mac and restore from there does retain more settings (logins etc) than iCloud backup when you use an encrypted backup on Mac. I’ve always found the Mac to be the most reliable way to setup a new device from backup. There’s also the option of using the iMazing app for the backup/restore, it’s saved me from bad situations more than once.

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@pl@ludosphere.fr 2026-03-09 22:52

@film_girl @Eggfreckles I go in my library folder and see the amazing amount of cruft and old stuff from the 10.5 era that’s still in there and sometimes I wonder: How does my Library folder on my iOS account dating all the way from OS 2? I paid for the update to get mail on my iPod Touch, is that flag still on there?

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