iPhone 14 Pro activating new iPhone - download data from iCloud or transfer from current iPhone?

[jk73]

Which do you recommend? Is one method considered more reliable than the other?

If using the device-to-device transfer method, roughly how long should I expect it to take?

Thanks very much.

 

[xtremeplayhd]

It's taking forever at least my own here... I tried both methods, iCloud seems to be the "fastest" but still taking forever.

 

[Complex757]

I'm doing from phone to phone now and it's only 40 minutes

iCloud was telling me an hour

 

[lkalliance]

The phone-to-phone also transfers app credentials, you should be able to just open apps where you've already got credentials done and Touch/Face ID set up. iCloud restore does not do that: you'll have to sign in to all your apps again.

 

[MisterSavage]

I have done the transfer the last several years. How long it will take "depends". For one thing it needs to download all of your apps to install them.

 

[jk73]

Thanks for the replies.

 

[DotCom2]

I have always always always done a restore from my Mac. I don't trust this over the air stuff as much. I have had very little issues doing it this way but that's just me. GOOD LUCK and CONGRATS!