My iphone needs to be restored

Arghhh!
I just tried updating my iphone 4 to ios 6.
I think it might have unplugged… Or something?

Now itunes is saying its detected a phone in recovery mode and needs to be restored before it can be used with itunes.
And the phone just shows an apple cable being plugged into itunes.
Do I really have to restore it? And does that mean wiping the whole thing and losing everything? Please tell me thats not true and there's something I can do!

Is it backed up to iCloud?

Yep you have to but if you plug you phone in often it will have backed it up for you the last time you hooked it up to your computer. Restore it the recover the back up

If you have backed up your phone recently then if you restore it you can back it up to how your phone was previously. I've had to do this 3 or 4 times and I've never lost any information.

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