Owning an iPhone 4S renders benefits to people because of its new mobile operating system and new and exciting features.

Last October 12, Apple Inc. revealed the new mobile operating system, iOS 5, along with the company's storage service iCloud. The new iPhone 4S hit the markets of United States, UK and Australia last Firday. As expected, a lot of people are trying to get their hands on the new iPhone 4S.

If you want to transfer your files from the old iPhone to your new iPhone 4S, here are the steps that you must follow to successfully transfer data from old iPhone to the newest Apple handset.

Step 1: Make sure that you downloaded the latest version of iTunes or the iTunes 10.5.

Step 2: Connect and sync in your iPhone to the iTunes. It is important that your iPhone is backed up to avoid loss of pertinent data and information.

Step 3: iTunes will redirect you and ask if you want to restore from a back up or to set up a new phone. Choose the backup of your current iPhone. If you are not redirected, select a backup to restore previous iOS on your new phone and try again. During this process, you will see the iTunes' progress bar. If this happens, allow ample time for the completion of the upgrade.

Step 4: After you selected back up on your new iPhone 4S, your iPhone will restart.

Step 5: Select the iTunes window when it appears after your iPhone restarted.

Step 6: Click on the tabs that you want to sync such as music, photos, etc.

Step 7: Click on "apply" to sync your new iPhone with iTunes.

Step 8: Check if your saved messages, email accounts, passwords, photos, notes, and other personal settings are present on your new iPhone. Your formatted device will ask you to enter your email account and voicemail passwords again. If you fail to remember your voicemail password, you can reset it.

If you cannot see your saved messages, e-mail accounts, passwords, photos, notes, and other personal settings, it means that the restore backup process in the second step was unsuccessful. It is very important that you backed up your current iPhone and use iTunes to restore your previous iOS and start from the beginning.

The aforementioned steps are also applicable if you are planning to switch from an older iPhone to a newer generation and version of iPhone such as iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.

Make sure that your device is running on the latest mobile operating system so that you will not encounter any problems when you transferred data using the step-by-step process as the new iPhone 4S will come with a pre-installed iOS 5.

Another way to easily transfer data from your current iPhone to the new iPhone 4S is through the iCloud, which was also launched along with the iOS 5. However, using the iCloud consumes more time than usual compared to the manual process.

On Friday, Apple finally released iPhone 4S, which sports a 3.5-inch screen; an 8-megapixel, 1080p high-definition camera; an A5 dual-core chip processor that is seven times faster than the graphics processor in the iPhone 4; 512 MB of RAM; two antennae to transmit and receive data; CDMA and GSM connectivity; 8 hours of 3G talk-time; and new applications like Siri and Find My Friends. Siri is a voice-recognition system that turns the device into a hands-free personal assistant. iPhone 4S uses the iOS 5 platform.

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