Restoring IPhone7 from IPhone 6

[iMore Question]

My IPhone6 got ruined. Bought new IPhone7 and tried to restore from old IPhone6 backup through ITunes. Getting not compatible or corrupt message.

 

[Rob Phillips]

Welcome to iMore! Were you running an iOS beta on your iPhone 6? If that's the case you'll need to install the beta on your iPhone 7 because they're not backward compatible.

If that's not the case you might want to think about setting your iPhone 7 up as a new device. Doing so generally results in slightly better performance and battery life than restoring from a backup.

 

[Queena Yang]

Make sure you have installed the latest version of iTunes on your computer.