Sandman
So regardless of this "internal switch" whatever that is supposed to mean, your phone data - while unrecoverable inside your old phone - was not actually lost since you're smart enough to utilize the automatic and free of charge backup mechanism in iCloud (or the automatic free of charge backup mechanism in iTunes if you distrust the cloud).

nospam
a backup certainly makes things easier, but the data in his old phone was still there.

he's wrong.

PeterN
Sorry, I forgot you were aware of what the Apple Store people told me.

nospam
i didn't say anything about what they said or didn't say.

stop making shit up.

PeterN
If you knew how to read, you would have seen that all technical information was from the people at the Apple Store.

nospam
if you had any resemblance of a clue, you'd realize that the apple store staff is not the sole source of technical information and actually they don't know as much as you think they do.

there's far more information than you could possibly comprehend at apple's web site. start here: <https://developer.apple.com/>.

again, the apple store employee's job is to repair the phone, not recover data. apple even says they're not responsible for data. it's not what they do.

you're *well* out of your league.

PeterN
I'm sure you wold have fixed my phone.

No doubt abut that. Amazing how when show to be wrong, you consistently turn to personal insults.