After purchasing an Apple product, what does it mean to restore from iTunes?

I'm getting the iPad mini for Christmas and I only want the music from my iTunes on the ipad mini, not my apps or anything else from my phone (iphone 4). If I chose restore from iTunes. Is that all it will do? (I plan on making a new Apple ID) I don't want anything else backed up from my phone by using the same iTunes account!

As I know, while restoring you can select the things which you want to restore. So you can only select the music and restore it to your other device using the iTunes.

You can decide what you sync to your device. You have the option of individually syncing music, videos, photos, apps, contacts, reminders, notes, etc.

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