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iPhone 12 Pro iPhone-to-iPhone data transfer or restore from iCloud backup?

Theyayarealivin said:
For those who transferred data iPhone to iPhone 📱 + 📲. Can you please check if your location history was also transferred? It is this screen.

Privacy>Location Services>System Services>Significant Services.

does it reset all your locations or is it still there. Please advise.
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It's there but not all locations.
 
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ozshadow said:
How does it work if your device uses one AppleID as the main purchasing ID and a second AppleID for Messages, Facetime, iCloud?

We have two phones. One uses AppleID 1 for both and the other is split with AppleID 1 and AppleID 2 as detailed above.
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It asked me for the password for the other ID when I did a phone to phone transfer.
 
bradbomb said:
I thought I saw online that the iPhone to iPhone transfer asks you if you want to transfer the Apple Watch over so that you don't have to do the unpair and repair. I'm still waiting for my 12 Pro to be delivered so I can transfer my X to the 12 Pro and also my Series 3 SS
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Yes, phone to phone transfer asked me if I want to transfer my Apple Watch to the new phone.
 
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I set up the 12 (14.1) then I tried to restore from a back up (14.0) on my iMac and it bricked the 12.
I had to do vol up-down-hold power and connect to iMac to factory reset.
Then I did Xs (14.0) to 12 (14.1) and it worked OK.

Mine did not ask about the watch. I have already reset the Xs for trade in.
I am now manually resetting the AW so I can pair with 12.
 
Luba said:
No need for QRcode cards to activate eSIM? Last year i had run around to get QR code’s as not all AT&T or Apple stores had them. Once i had them, setting up was a pain as i also needed another phone from my family plan With me. I wasn’t told that in the first time, so i had to back and gather everything then spent many hours on the Tech Support, and it finally worked.
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No QR code, no IMEI, nothing really, all done via chatbot
 
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I did phone to phone and it worked seamlessly. Then popped in the SIM from the old phone - easy peasy.

I did have to re-enter some passwords for banking apps but that’s it.
 
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I can’t seem to get phone to phone transfer to work. my original phone is on 114.2 beta 3, not sure what the new iphone 12 is on, but does it need to be ion the same 14.2 BETA build to work at all? It doesn’t indicated anything about build not compatible, But I can’t get it to work for now.
 
For any type of restore keep in the mind that the new phone has to have the same or newer version of iOS than the old phone for it to work and it will mention that when you try to restore.

I have tested both and from what I have noticed phone to phone transfer is more complete. For example after a phone to phone transfer most of my apps are already logged in such as Uber, Doordash, etc. however for sensitive apps like banking, PayPal, etc. they may ask you to re-authenticate since they detected that it is a different device.
 
BuggyGT said:
For any type of restore keep in the mind that the new phone has to have the same or newer version of iOS than the old phone for it to work and it will mention that when you try to restore.

I have tested both and from what I have noticed phone to phone transfer is more complete. For example after a phone to phone transfer most of my apps are already logged in such as Uber, Doordash, etc. however for sensitive apps like banking, PayPal, etc. they may ask you to re-authenticate since they detected that it is a different device.
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Yeah, the phone is encrypted and I think that is the requirement either on device or iTunes backup that allows passwords to be stored. Not sure if iCloud backup allows for that. So, technically a phone to phone once the source device has been accessed via authentication, should allow for device to device de-crypted transfer. I’m currently updating my new iPhone 12 to 14.2 beta 3 to bring it up to par with the source device. We’ll see.

update: yes, updating to 14.2 beta 3 did the trick, had to be on same beta build to work.. not a production build of 14.x. Now, everything is transferring phone to phone fine - or at least appears so.
 
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I usually do the setup as a new phone first, update if needed, then do the restore from backup from the old phone's backup just done. It is the encrypted backup on desktop itunes. Anyone else do it this way?
 
ozshadow said:
I usually do the setup as a new phone first, update if needed, then do the restore from backup from the old phone's backup just done. It is the encrypted backup on desktop itunes. Anyone else do it this way?
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I used to do it that way in the past. With my new iPhone 12 Pro, I did the quick setup and phone-to-phone transfer for the first time. Other than losing access to my phone for a few hours, it was painless and it allowed me not having to unpair and repair my Apple Watch.
 
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I did the phone-to-phone wireless transfer and it seemed to work OK except my old phone has been saying "5 minutes remaining" for around 6 hours. It looked like everything moved over within an hour, and I could use the new phone. I wasn't able to connect to iMessage so I followed some steps online to restart the phone thinking that would help. (It actually just sent a confirmation message to my iMac saying a new device wanted to connect. Once I said OK, iMessages worked again.)

Because I restarted the new phone, could that be why the old one has been saying "5 minutes remaining" for so long? What happens if I move the new phone away from the old one or disconnect it from the power cable?
 
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