iPhone upgrade/transfer process

[twanj]

Every year I upgrade and go 3-4 hours without a phone while transferring to a new phone.

This is mostly my fault because my photos & music take up 80% of the 512 GB.

I'm doing it wirelessly this year, used a thunderbolt cable last year, and wireless the year before that.

I think this could be tweaked to get the most important stuff transferred faster, and the less useful/never used stuff transferred last or even overnight.

 

[Paddle1]

You could backup your old phone and then restore it on the new phone so that there's no 4 hour downtime on both devices.

 

[twanj]

You could backup your old phone and then restore it on the new phone so that there's no 4 hour downtime on both devices.

Wouldn't that take roughly the same or more length of time?

Backing up and restoring vs directly from one device to the other?

 

[Paddle1]

Wouldn't that take roughly the same or more length of time?

Backing up and restoring vs directly from one device to the other?

It's not really to save time but the downtime, you only need one device backing up or restoring at a time as opposed to two.

 

[twanj]

It ended up taking 10 hours, I had to borrow someone's phone for the day. Not too convenient.