Is a full iCloud backup and restore supposed to leave me in the exact same phone state?

[Guest /u/fortprinciple]

I took my iPhone to the Apple store for a hardware repair, and in usual Apple fashion I ended up with a new (replacement) device. I backed up my old device onto iCloud, and restored it. This is my first time doing a restore, and I expected to pick up where things were left off.

 

However, I found myself having to re-login into many apps (eg Messenger, Google, etc.) although some apps were already logged in (eg Strava). I also had a weird Strava sync issue where my Apple watch would sync Strava activities into the ether, because it disappears off my watch but doesn't appear on my phone. This was eventually fixed by uninstalling Strava completely and deleting all Health data and sources, and reinstalling Strava.

 

I'm just curious if a backup and restore is supposed to leave me with an identical phone state (barring some privacy features eg maybe FaceID), because I ended up with a lot of weirdness that was annoying to fix.

 

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