My iPhone 6S came today. I dutifully backed up my iPhone 5 to iTunes, as you can see here in the list of backups:
("Mattress" is the name of my iPhone.)
Great. So I set up my iPhone 6S as a new phone, so I could update the software to match what is installed on the 5. And then I went to restore the backup from today, and:
Where's my backup from today? Why can't I restore it to my new phone?
A clue: July 10th, the date of the backup I can see, is the day I installed the iOS 9 beta on the old phone. Registering the 6S for the beta program hasn't solved it, and neither has deregistering the 5 and creating a new backup.
Best Answer
I'm going to assume your iPhone 5 is running the latest beta, which is iOS 9.1. This is newer version than iOS 9.0.1--the latest non-beta release, and the version your iPhone 6s is running, according to your screenshot.
A backup can only be restored onto a phone running the same, or a newer, version of iOS.
So, if my initial assumption is correct, you'd need to pick one of these options:
Restore from your July 10th backup--it's clear you'd prefer not to do this.
Downgrade your iPhone 5 to iOS 9.0.1, and then create a new backup which should then be restorable. (Is this even possible? Perhaps by restoring your iPhone 5 from it's July 10th backup... which is no better than above.)
Wait until iOS 9.1 is officially released, and then restore from this backup after you have upgraded your iPhone 6s to that new version (who wants to wait that long?).
Upgrade your shiny new iPhone 6s to the current 9.1 beta release and then restore from the current, missing, backup, which will hopefully become available as the iOS version numbers will now be compatible.