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Apple Investigating iPhone 14 Pro Models Freezing After Data Transfers
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The release notes for 16.0.2 say there's a fix for "Display may appear completely black during device setup."
I managed to force a reboot and then updated the software all ok now
Sorry for resurecting this old thread, it just seems to be the most recent where this topic is being discussed.
I'm about to transfer all my data over to a new iPhone for the first time since Quick Start was introduced, and I'm having trouble deciding on what the best method is for me. Done lots of reading and research from various people, but nothing conclusive seems to be reached.
Main thing I want to know is, in terms of end results, what's the difference? I've read Quick Start makes a 1:1 copy of the old phone, but loses the passwords of some apps, while also reading the encrypted backup is the most complete image of the old phone... but also loses passwords for some apps. Does this mean the end result between the two are the exact same? Is there anything that one method copies over but the other does not?
I'm about to transfer all my data over to a new iPhone for the first time since Quick Start was introduced, and I'm having trouble deciding on what the best method is for me. Done lots of reading and research from various people, but nothing conclusive seems to be reached.
Main thing I want to know is, in terms of end results, what's the difference? I've read Quick Start makes a 1:1 copy of the old phone, but loses the passwords of some apps, while also reading the encrypted backup is the most complete image of the old phone... but also loses passwords for some apps. Does this mean the end result between the two are the exact same? Is there anything that one method copies over but the other does not?
I don’t know the specifics I’m afraid. But I do know that restoring from an encrypted backup is quicker if you have one. The ‘quick start’ is handy if you haven’t got a back up to hand or aren’t at your mac but it takes quite a long time and tied up both your old and new iPhones whilst it is happening.
I think you also lose apps that are no longer available on the App Store. But that might be the case in all options.
Personally, I tried to restore from an encrypted back up. But it wouldn’t work.
Neither would quick start.
So I had to do the worst of the lot and use iCloud back up.
I get a new phone every year and I always transfer over my old phone's contents. I used to always do it via an encrypted backup. The last few years I have used the transfer via quick start and I honestly haven't noticed a difference except it's less of a PITA. My health data gets transferred over, which is really important to me. I do have to log in again to some apps, but that's such a minor thing to me that it wouldn't even factor into my decision.
If you choose quick start I would make sure that you update the new phone to the latest version before you do it to avoid the issue listed in this thread. I did that when helping my mom with her new phone and it wasn't a big deal.
I always do the encrypted backup to iTunes. I suspect this method will be significantly faster in the future once iPhones finally get USB-C and high speed data transfer.
Depends on what best means? Quickest is usually the QR Code. But some like to just set up as new to hope to leave faulty code behind
There should be no faulty code in a device backup as only user data is ever backed up in a backup - the actual OS is installed fresh, completely separately. It’s more probable that faulty behavior comes from naturally occurring errors or corruption in the OS system files. I’ve been running the same iOS device backup since the original iPhone came out in 2007, and have bounced from old phone to new phone almost every year.
Yeppp. I've never set up a device as new after getting an iPhone 3G.
Yep been using encrypted back-ups since the iPhone 5.