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iPhone 16 Pro Max For those of you upgrading
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i have also the public beta as of right now on my 13 pro, to make the data transfer to the new one as smooth as possible on the same OS
I'm going to install iOS 18 on my phone and WatchOS 11 on my AW8. That will give me a few days to play with them before the new ones arrive, and will also make sure there are no "wrinkles" when I migrate all my stuff to the new phone.
I have had that happen in previous years. Only the problem was the other direction. When I updated my old phone to the freshly released iOS version it was actually ahead of the version that shipped on my new phone. I had to make a backup to iTunes, then when I ”restored” that backup to the new phone, I was prompted to install the latest iOS version first, which I did and it worked after that. But I couldn’t use the “transfer from old phone to new phone” option.
So now I will wait until I get the new phone, which will be iOS 18, and my old phone should transfer fine with an older version. At least that’s what I’ve been doing for the last couple of upgrades. They could have worked out that bug by now. I read somewhere that they can update an entire pallet load of new phone all at once with a new tool they have. So maybe that wouldn’t happen.
