For everyone who is in the iPhone Upgrade Program and is trading in their 6s tomorrow - what is your plan of attack? Are you going to backup to iTunes or iCloud right before walking into the store, then when it's time to hand in your old phone reset all content & settings? Then after they unbox and activate the 7/7+, are you going to select "set up as new iPhone", or try and restore from backup right there? Or get back to your computer and restore from iTunes? It's my understanding that upgraders are not allowed to walk out of the store with the phone still sealed in the box, it has to be activated by an Apple employee - is this true?
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IUP process - restore or set up as new?
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That's definitely the best strategy but I don't think they will allow that...most full iTunes restores take close to an hour, or more if you have a larger storage capacity. I doubt they are gonna let you hang on to the old phone and the new one AND take up space in the already crowded store on launch day.
They deactivate your current one and activate the new one. But you don't need to take it out of the box. I leave the store with my box sealed.
Oh so YOU are the kind of person that takes up space in Apple stores when others need them for more important issues! You should be doing the backup at home and the restore at home too.
I have once out of 8 years. Had an issue with messages opening. Requires a restore as new. Tomorrow I am using the decipher tool to only transfer over health data. Everything else will be started as new.
Lol yup I will take up place. I have a 30 min window and wanna use it
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Well do take a backup earlier. So it's just a small delta backup there. And can sit at a side and do restore. Gonna try it. Let's see