If you are restoring old iTunes backup and stopped by the "software too old" error, you must update the iPhone to the latest version of iOS before it can be restored from this backup. Update the software of your iPhone to restore iTunes backup Read on to learn how to restore iCloud or iTunes backup from a newer iOS. In this article, I will walk you through three useful ways to solve this problem. Let's say you have an iTunes backup created by an iPhone XS that has updated to iOS 13.1.5, while you just get a new iPhone 11 on iOS 13.1.2, restoring iPhone 11 from the iOS 13.1.5 backup will give you the error: t he backup cannot be restored to this iPhone because the software on the iPhone is too old. This is a limitation set by Apple to ensure no backup from iPhone on a higher iOS version can be restored to a device on an earlier iOS version as some data files are different from iOS version to version.
When restoring iCloud/iTunes backup created by another iPhone to your current iPhone, you may get an error saying that the backup cannot be restored to the current iPhone because the software on this iPhone is too old.
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