iPhone 14 Pro Exchanging iPhone 14 pro for iPhone 13 mini. In store or at home?

[weezin]

I am planning on exchanging my iPhone 14 Pro for a 13 mini. My question is… Should I bring my 14 Pro to the Apple store and handle the transfer there? Or should I order the 13 mini to have it at home, do all of the data transfer, and then return the 14 Pro?

I’m worried that if I do this in store, it will take forever to handle the iCloud back up in download, authenticator, app, transfers, and things like that.

 

[happy orchard]

If you feel a bit tech savvy, do it as home so you can do things at your leisure and deal with problems as they arise. (Maybe have to call your carrier, restart the transfer, or other little things that can be tedious to do in store.)

The other bit reason to do it at home is so if you change your mind, you haven’t traded in your old phone yet.

On the other hand, if you prefer the security of employees being there to help, do it in store. 👌🏻

I would say it will take awhile. For reference, I have maybe 80gbs used on my phone and it took 30-45 min on my home wifi.

 

[weezin]

I guess the second question is that when I buy the new iPhone, should I have them transfer my number to it right away?

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

I am planning on exchanging my iPhone 14 Pro for a 13 mini. My question is… Should I bring my 14 Pro to the Apple store and handle the transfer there? Or should I order the 13 mini to have it at home, do all of the data transfer, and then return the 14 Pro?

I’m worried that if I do this in store, it will take forever to handle the iCloud back up in download, authenticator, app, transfers, and things like that.

Personally I do it at home but if you’re worried about shipping back an expensive device or want an instant return process then the Apple stores usually have great wifi/cellular coverage to do it there.

 

[FlyingTexan]

Just do it at the store. Take the 14pro and back it up, go to store and swap so your mini is good to go, go home and connect to wifi to sync everything. No reason to keep two phones

 

[weezin]

Thanks guys. I'm inclined to do it at home so I can take my time making sure everything comes over appropriately. I can get 2 hour delivery from a local store, so that helps things a bit.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I would definitely get the new phone set up at home first and then do the return with Apple.

 

[weezin]

Alright, thanks all. I'll go buy the new phone, take it home, do all the transfers, then return the old phone. Seems like that will work!

 

[thadoggfather]

I was so glad I spent the $8 for 2 hour delivery when I got my m1 air in December 2020. Still height of pandemic procedures, a confusing cluster at the store and holiday foot traffic and road traffic and barely got
Off the couch to meet the post mates driver.

Would do it again