Once you are all set, reset phone again, and restore it from your ‘fresh’ backup. Once photos are on your phone, use a cable to copy to your Mac, or sync photos to iCloud Photos. If you don’t have access to another iPhone, you can always back up your existing one (in this case I would do to a Mac), sign out from iCloud, reset it, and then restore it using that old backup. If photos were SYNCED to iCloud (not ‘backed up’), either go to to view them, or use your Mac’s Photos app to sync photos down to your Mac. If backed up to a Mac, just restore a new device (can be an iPhone or an iPad, even an iPod) using that and you will get access to those photos. You either have it backed up to your Mac, or you have it backed up to iCloud. ‘Older phone backed up to iCloud on my Mac’ doesn’t make sense. So if you want to restore some content from iCloud backup, you need to erase your iPhone to set it up again.' 'Please remember that restoring from iCloud backup can only be completed through the iOS Setup Assistant, which means it's only available during the iPhone setup process. Is there any other way I could see a potential backup, or alternatively is there a possibility it would be backed up in iTunes (unfortunately I didn't set iTunes up on my computer so that's pretty unlikely)? Thanks!ĭid my own research and it says here I can't look at iCloud backups unless I'm downloading on an entirely new phone, is this true?

I went to System Preferences > Apple ID > the device, but there's nothing listed about the backup under the basic information about the iPhone model/IMEI/etc. I no longer have access to an older iPhone that I believe should have information (namely photos) backed up to iCloud on my Mac, but I can't figure out how to access the backup without using the 'restore backup' functionality on a completely new phone.

Hello, I have looked through Reddit and online extensively already to try to figure out where to locate this information, still unsure of how to get to backups.

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