New iPhone: what comes with you?
Your network and your chats are stored encrypted on your iPhone only. They are deliberately not in your iCloud backup, so no one but you can get to them.
On this page
What’s back after you sign in
- Your account
- Your card
- Your connections in Nodbase
What doesn’t come with you
- Your network: people, notes, relationships and Keep in Touch. They don’t transfer via a backup or a direct iPhone-to-iPhone transfer either.
- Your chat history: chats start empty on the new iPhone.
- Nodi’s recent conversations.
Back up first
Export your network on the old iPhone as a spreadsheet: You › gear › Data & Storage › Export Network. The file is a copy for reference. Phone numbers, email addresses and contact methods are not included. See Export your network.
Chats on the new iPhone
As soon as you sign in on the new iPhone, your chats run there. Your contacts see in your chat that your security code has changed. That’s normal with a new device.
If you then open the old iPhone, it shows Your chat is active on another device. Use Here brings your chats back to that iPhone. Chats only ever run on one iPhone at a time.
Last checked: 11 November 2026
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