Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37116313-20181221132309/@comment-35315474-20181221205800

Shame on the Apple guy for teaching you bad terminology manners! 😂 Just kidding, of course. It's really a mouthful to always say "backup and restore" so it makes sense to use a term like mirroring. In some ways, mirroring is used in the world of backups, but it's usually more for active backing up in which data is copied to a second source on the fly. That way if the original source goes down, the mirroring source can jump right in with no down time. But that's getting too far away from the topic (I know, Ican go on too much!).

I had heard that restores from iCloud backups wasn't working, but when I got my new iPhone, I asked about that. I had brought in my laptop to restore everything to my new iPhone as soon as I got it, and while sitting there, I was chatting with some of the Apple Store guys. They said Apple has changed it so that iCloud backups now contain app data (those hidden files that stores all our data for each app). So now we should be able to move our SN games over to a new device from backups on a laptop or the cloud.

Personally, I'm a bit of a control nut when it comes to my data so I prefer to do it myself on my own laptop, but not everyone has that luxury or even desire. So if it does work from iCloud backups, then that's great for everyone playing SN on an Apple device!! 😊