Passwords and logins come over if you’ve encrypted the backup. And it’s 10x faster than wireless. If you have local content, it’s basically there only option anyway.
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Best Way to Transfer Data From Your Old iPhone to a New iPhone 13
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This is why I do. As nice and convenient as iCloud backup and direct transfer are, I’ll restore via cord. Much much faster.
I love how they gloss over that in the article.
Does anyone know if the “optimised” version of iCloud photos have anything to do with the device? So if you went to a higher resolution device it downloads higher resolution images? If so, then a clean download of the iCloud library would be better than direct copy.
I think so. Now I’m at home trying again, it still says “About 9 hours”. I only have about 200GB of data in the old iPhone. By this rate I think restoring from iCloud may be much faster.
I’m just going with a clean install. It’s slower overall but at least I get to control the order so the things I need are there first.
Clean install is the only way. Half the data on the phone eating space winds up being my that gray “other” stuff ya can’t get rid of without wiping. Apps like Facebook and others just slowly eat gigs of data for no reason as well
Haha after trying to stop the direct transfer and going the iCloud way which is even slower… I went back to direct transfer and now it says About 12 hours! Yay. This time I’m going to patiently wait for it to finish.
iPhones now often has the same or larger storage than Macs… 😂 also, Lightning only supports USB2 speed…
I don’t think I have the camera connector, but I do have a dual-lighting charge+headphone thingy. It plugs into the lightning port, and has 2 female lightning ports. Does anyone know if this can be used for the hardwired device-to-device xfer?
update: derp. Never mind. This’d still require a lightning-to-lightning cable, which would negate the need for the adapter, and which I don’t have and I don’t know if exists?
update: derp. Never mind. This’d still require a lightning-to-lightning cable, which would negate the need for the adapter, and which I don’t have and I don’t know if exists?
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If I back up my 12 Pro (iOS 15) to my mac, and then restore to my new 13 Pro Max does it bring over my watch as easily as the device to device migration?
My phone only has 100 or so snap shots on it and not a lot of apps. Not a lot of memory use.
Last time I remember doing this, I screwed it up when my wife upgraded to a 11 and I had to pair and unpair and pair and unpair her watch multiple times to make it work. I wanted to put my noggin through drywall by the time it was done.
I use Apple Pay extensively as well, so I was hoping to avoid re loading all my cards and such.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Waiting on my 13 Pro Max now. The FedEx guy needs to make it quick. I'm impatient
My phone only has 100 or so snap shots on it and not a lot of apps. Not a lot of memory use.
Last time I remember doing this, I screwed it up when my wife upgraded to a 11 and I had to pair and unpair and pair and unpair her watch multiple times to make it work. I wanted to put my noggin through drywall by the time it was done.
I use Apple Pay extensively as well, so I was hoping to avoid re loading all my cards and such.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Waiting on my 13 Pro Max now. The FedEx guy needs to make it quick. I'm impatient
Very tempted to try it again as I have so many things to login to, but I tried this when it was first possible years ago all excited about it and couldn’t get it to finish. It would take hours and fail. I tried it again a year later and had weird issues. Each time I was left with erasing all content if not worse (dfu restore?) and then just have to resort to iCloud restore, which would be fast but then with a large photo library would take sometimes days to fully restore and finish up with the scanning of your photos (for faces, scenes, etc).
if you have lots of data to restore and do iCloud restore, if you have the right dongles you can use Ethernet to make the download faster…
if you have lots of data to restore and do iCloud restore, if you have the right dongles you can use Ethernet to make the download faster…
I think the article is misleading about the “issues” you face by restoring from a backup. The issue affects Apple Music only and is fixed by a security update that you should be applying immediately anyway.
Generally, if you have a decent bandwidth connection restoring from an iCloud backup is faster than the direct wireless transfer.
Generally, if you have a decent bandwidth connection restoring from an iCloud backup is faster than the direct wireless transfer.
I tried restoring from my Mac but twice I got backup corrupted error. So I am now trying a phone to phone restore. However, I reached a screen saying: "Your other device includes purchases from the iTunes Store that were made with a different Apple ID." It then asks me to enter the password for an Apple ID that is very much not mine. And it did it twice! I now know the email addresses of two other Apple IDs. I have no such purchases on my device, let alone from other users.
Can you use your new phone while it is doing a direct wireless transfer or do we have to wait until it is finished?
No. Just do the normal stuff and do the software update when you are done. The phone ships with a slightly out of date version of ios.
I wish there was some technologically reliable method to transfer data at high rates of speed...
Seriously though. For those of us that have apps with 100's of GBs of files that don't store in the cloud as part of the back up and can only be loaded via lightning cable with USB 2.0 speeds, like DSD music files, days like today are maddening. Even though it seems semi-crazy to see the euro-union demand USB-C, if it actually works and Apple doesn't try and stick it to them by dropping all ports, I will be ecstatic.
Seriously though. For those of us that have apps with 100's of GBs of files that don't store in the cloud as part of the back up and can only be loaded via lightning cable with USB 2.0 speeds, like DSD music files, days like today are maddening. Even though it seems semi-crazy to see the euro-union demand USB-C, if it actually works and Apple doesn't try and stick it to them by dropping all ports, I will be ecstatic.
