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iTunes does a good job of backing up and restoring all your iPhone data, settings and purchases. It backs up everything that couldn't be downloaded again. There are two ways you could backup your data using iTunes: Transfer purchases to iTunes - This is a very crucial setting that can affect a lot of things. If you don't want to login into each of your apps again after the restore, make sure you say yes to this question (this question will popup as soon as you start your backup process). Saying yes will encrypt your backup with a password. This is where things get tricky. I must have chosen a password the first time I backed up my phone and when I chose to back my phone up again after an year with the transfer purchase option, iTunes somehow did not ask me for a password (it may have remembered my old password). While doing a restore, when I selected that backup, it started demanding the password from me. I had erased all my data and settings from my phone after backing it

I have never understood why (contract free) people pay 100s of dollars on their phone bills being on of the Big 4 cellular networks in the US, namely: AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint . Talking to some of those people, I realize they don't even know they have an option, namely an MVNO. MVNO stands for Mobile Virtual Network Operator. These are carriers who supply their own plans to customers but use one (or more) of the  Big 4  networks I listed. In other words, you do stand to save money on your monthly bill and that too, without losing the network you love! Sounds too good to be true, so what is the catch? Well, the catch is that customers using one of these MVNO plans may be deprioritized by the  Big 4  in moments of network congestion or their data may be throttled when they reach a specific threshold in comparison to customers who are directly using the  Big 4 . But, for all practical purposes, you won't feel a difference. I can say that having tried almost 10 o