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- Plug your device into power and make sure that you're connected to Wi-Fi. You can't restore from a backup over a cellular Internet connection.
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Apple: “If you don't erase your device and restore from a previous iCloud backup, the new iCloud backups created when you set up the device as a new device, will overwrite your previously saved iCloud backups.”
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