Originally Posted by
Ledsteplin I prefer not to set up a new phone from a back up. Often times the back up can corrupt the new phone. It happened to me in September. I ended up restoring as new.
I always setup my yearly new iPhone "as new" ... until I got the Watch. Now since the Watch backup is tied to the iPhone backup if I setup an iPhone as new I lose all my Watch data (mainly want to keep my Health stats going), so that is the deal breaker for me. Hopefully Apple will separate the iPhone and Watch backups somehow... someday. That being said, seems like iTunes/iCloud restores are much more stable these days than they use to be in years past...