Transfer Old iPhone Data to iPhone 8

If you plan to get an iPhone 8 or you have already had one, now read this article and learn how to transfer your old iPhone data to iPhone 8.



Every time when you changed our phone or iPhone, we may have the issue of tranferring data from old phone to new phone, so does iPhone. But fortunately, if you’re changing with iPhone, there will be several ways for us to transfer those old iPhone data to new iPhone, like iPhone 8, which is recently released. See below steps.

Transfer Old App Data with USB Cable

For photos, including WeChat photos, WhatsApp photos, message pictures ect, we can copy them to iPhone 8 by using USB cable and connect those two iPhone with PC.

1.Save all those photos on your photo album, then connect your old iPhone with PC.

2.Then connect your new iPhone 8 with PC, when both of them are detected, copy the photos from old iPhone, and paste them to iPhone 8.

Tips: this method only can help us transfer photos, for other app data, we’ll need to find some other ways.

Transfer Old App Data with iTunes

We can also use iTunes to help us transfer app data to iPhone 8, see below steps.

1.Launching iTunes, and make sure it’s with latest version.

2.Connect your old iPhone with iTunes, if you have done backup before, it will begin syncing automatically. If not, you can go to Files--Summary, then tap on “Backup Now”, and confirm with “Backup”.

3.When finish backup, go to Files--Summary again, then you can see your backup files on left side bar. Now connect your iPhone 8 with PC, choose the backup files you need, tap on “Restore Backup”, and confirm with “Restore”.



Transfer Old App Data with iCloud

We can also use iCloud to help us transfer our old iPhone data, but we’ll need to make sure the storage of iCloud is enough.

1.Connect your old iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--iCloud, log in it with your Apple ID and password.

2.Now turn on iCloud server, and all the app button under it that you need to backup the files. Then tap on “Backup” at the end of this page, confirm with “Backup Now”.

3.When finish backup, connect your iPhone 8 with Wifi.

4.Go to Setting--General--Erase All Content and Settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

5.Swipe to begin the set up progress, choose the files you need, tap on “Restore Backup”, and confirm with “Restore”.



Remark: when you lost some of your app data on old iPhone without backup, or you just want to backup some of them selectively on PC, iRefone can help you with it.

For detailed steps, you can check below article for reference:

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