iPhone 13 mini not doing icloud backup, how to transfer data to new phone?

[Kaikidan]

I have a launch date iPhone 13 mini, so almost 5-6 years, I love this device, but I'm a pretty heavy user, so the small battery suffered kinda hard along all those years, so much so that it's sitting at 56% health, and because of that I believe, it's failing kinda catastrophically, like, calls fail, extreme slowdowns, phantom touches, etc.. i'm lucky getting 3h out of it even without use. Swapping the battery here is very expensive at 1/5 of the cost of a new 17, and will take a month or more to get serviced due to only one apple store in the country and low or inexistent stock of it's battery. So i've decided to finally say bye to it, let it rest and upgrade to the 17.

but... one of the problens I'm currently having with it is that even while charging it tries to do the icloud backup, gets extremelly hot, slow, time remaining goes from 2 to 4 to 11 to 15h... never finishes, then the device just forgets it was trying to upload data and suddenly aborts the process. is it possible to transfer data from device to device directly? because it seens like I woudn't be able to do an icloud backup sucesfully before the 17 arrives.

 

[jz0309]

I have a launch date iPhone 13 mini, so almost 5-6 years, I love this device, but I'm a pretty heavy user, so the small battery suffered kinda hard along all those years, so much so that it's sitting at 56% health, and because of that I believe, it's failing kinda catastrophically, like, calls fail, extreme slowdowns, phantom touches, etc.. i'm lucky getting 3h out of it even without use. Swapping the battery here is very expensive at 1/5 of the cost of a new 17, and will take a month or more to get serviced due to only one apple store in the country and low or inexistent stock of it's battery. So i've decided to finally say bye to it, let it rest and upgrade to the 17.

but... one of the problens I'm currently having with it is that even while charging it tries to do the icloud backup, gets extremelly hot, slow, time remaining goes from 2 to 4 to 11 to 15h... never finishes, then the device just forgets it was trying to upload data and suddenly aborts the process. is it possible to transfer data from device to device directly? because it seens like I woudn't be able to do an icloud backup sucesfully before the 17 arrives.

you can do a transfer old phone to new once you have your new one

Use Quick Start to transfer data to a new iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

Set up your new iOS device automatically using an iPhone or iPad.

support.apple.com

you can also backup to a Mac or a PC by plugging the phone in, just make sure to use the encrypted backup option

 

[pjschmid]

I went through a similar experience last year moving from a dying iPhone X (yes I know I waited too long 🫤). I was able to transfer most things using the iPhone transfer but I did end up need to use a cable and was not able to get my iTunes library to transfer. I was went to the Apple store and they couldn't get it to work either. I have a lot of albums loaded from CDs back in iPod days when the MacBook Pro had a CD drive. So if you have music that was loaded from CDs make sure you have a good backup of that to iTunes in case you need to load it from your computer.

 

[Kaikidan]

I went through a similar experience last year moving from a dying iPhone X (yes I know I waited too long 🫤). I was able to transfer most things using the iPhone transfer but I did end up need to use a cable and was not able to get my iTunes library to transfer. I was went to the Apple store and they couldn't get it to work either. I have a lot of albums loaded from CDs back in iPod days when the MacBook Pro had a CD drive. So if you have music that was loaded from CDs make sure you have a good backup of that to iTunes in case you need to load it from your computer.

Luckily most of the things i have on it are selfhosted, I was most worried about if phone to phone would preserve things like eSIM and bank credentials, because here, first one for carriers lobby reasons, normally requires you to personaly go to a carrier store and pay for them to just scan a QR code to transfer eSIM between devices while trying to force more expensive plans to do so otherwise they won't. and icloud backup normally bypasses that and also banks requirement to go to a ATM to reautorize device.