iphone 5 to iphone 5s -- How to update?

[GIZBUG]

Wife has a 5. Work got her a free 5S. How do I ensure all her settings and stuff on her 5, end up on her 5S when I set it up for her? Simple Icloud backup? Or backup with Itunes (5), then plug in 5S, and restore?


Thanks

 

[Shockwave78]

My thoughts are always to start as new on a new phone or new major revision of iOS...

Save contacts to icloud, that is the most time consuming thing. Other than that i would just set it up as new.

 

[netdog]

And lose all your texts?

 

[GIZBUG]

How do you save all your contacts / pictures / email settings to cloud?

 

[Nolander07]

Back up the old phone to iCloud. Turn on the new phone, then log into her iCloud account, and restore from the most recent iCloud backup. It is very easy that way and all her texts, contacts, photos, settings, etc. will be the same. It takes maybe an hour or so for everything to load, but it will do it all automatically.

 

[Rigby]

I'd simply do a backup via iTunes and restore the new phone from that. Much faster than iCloud backup. Not much point in installing the new phone from scratch (especially if the old phone is already running iOS 7), and there is no easy way to get messages over to the new one without using backup/restore.

 

[asleep]

I use iTunes. Backup encrypted with password and it'll transfer passwords, etc. Restore from that.

 

[GIZBUG]

Do I need to take the SIM CHIP out of her 5, and put it in her 5S then so it activates? Shes with ATT