Can you still keep all your messages and iMessages if you upgrade your iPhone to another iPhone?

Hi, just wondered out of interest if I was to upgrade my current iPhone (iPhone 4) to a later iPhone (ie iPhone 5) is it possible you can still keep all your messages and iMessages when you upgrade? No one has asked this question before and I've wanted to ask this for quite some time now.

Yup. This has been asked multiple times btw.

Just a matter of backing up the older iPhone & then restoring from that backup on the new one, using iTunes.

I don't think so. I think only stuff that you have uploaded to the cloud will transfer over. I know that in March when my Iphone4 got broken & I got an Iphone4S, they were only able to upload my contacts, my emails & any notes on my notepad. I lost all previous texts & pictures.

If you back up your phone all your texts and iMessages will be there when you switch devices. It will be set up exactly like your current phone is.

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