My restore from PC went great and pretty fast. But all my apps still want me to login with user and password since my face ID was "updated" as required by the new phone and Apple Pay needs to be set up again. LOL. First world problems. Sheesh.
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iPhone 16 Pro So much for the easy transfer
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Boo hoo. 🤣
I have an old US AppleID which I shared with my wife and kids before Family Sharing was a thing, with a lot of IAP tied to that account. But for the past several years we've been doing it 'correctly,' with Family Sharing (accounts in our country of residence). So now, whenever I get a new device, I have to install apps from multiple accounts (all of which have 2FA so that's fun) and then I have to manually sign out and then into each account, separately, to "restore purchases" on 10-20 apps to unlock the IAP. Then there are apps that aren't available in certain countries, so I have to make sure I'm signed into the correct country account to get stuff. Super fun. But you're right - first-world problems 🤣
I have an old US AppleID which I shared with my wife and kids before Family Sharing was a thing, with a lot of IAP tied to that account. But for the past several years we've been doing it 'correctly,' with Family Sharing (accounts in our country of residence). So now, whenever I get a new device, I have to install apps from multiple accounts (all of which have 2FA so that's fun) and then I have to manually sign out and then into each account, separately, to "restore purchases" on 10-20 apps to unlock the IAP. Then there are apps that aren't available in certain countries, so I have to make sure I'm signed into the correct country account to get stuff. Super fun. But you're right - first-world problems 🤣
Yes. Apparently it won't work at all from unencrypted, but IDK for sure. The other apps work fine, it's just the ones that use face ID that need to be logged into since my face had to be reregistered on the new phone. Probably because the hardware and hence the image capturing is possibly just a little different to use the old data.
I had to log in to nearly everything except social media stuff. Did you have to download all your apps?
Yep. I had this when my 16PM got delivered today. During the setup process the iPhone asked me to login to other account that I had used when I was in the UK to download certain apps from that App Store. Then sent me a text 2FA which I couldn’t get as my iPhone was in transfer process. Fortunately after my second attempt it messaged my MacBook with the code.
I was super impressed when I transferred to 15 Pro last year and I just put phones next to each other and everything worked… this year was a total nightmare because of e-sim.
I thought I had a pretty simple scenario. I upgraded my wife’s iPhone 13 to 16 Pro on ATT locking her into a 3 year contract.
But the plan was for me to take that new phone and she inherits my 15 Pro from last year. We’re still paying the monthly dues, just swapping sims cause I film iPhone video every day for work and even get a monthly phone stipend to have an up to date phone.
But dear lord I had to jump through so many hoops when in the past I would’ve just physically swapped the SIM cards. They wouldn’t activate my wife’s sim without her confirming a code sent to her phone number… which was the sim I was trying to activate so I couldn’t get the text! And it wouldn’t let me activate via my number also on the account or email. The only way I finally got it to work was to have them send an e-sim as a second phone number to my phone then use Apple’s tool to transfer my second number to her phone. Anything I tried with ATT resulted in telling me to go to the store.
I tried to pair my Apple Watch to the 16 Pro and it refused to be found even though it worked fine on the phone I transferred from. Eventually I gave up and reset the Apple Watch to pair it as new and it said it needs to be updated first and it’s now been 6 hours and the progress bar still says 3 days remaining on updating the watch. Total nightmare. I had my phone right next to the watch on the charger for 2 hours and the progress bar got to maybe 5% but I can’t just leave my phone on my nightstand for 3 days.
I thought I had a pretty simple scenario. I upgraded my wife’s iPhone 13 to 16 Pro on ATT locking her into a 3 year contract.
But the plan was for me to take that new phone and she inherits my 15 Pro from last year. We’re still paying the monthly dues, just swapping sims cause I film iPhone video every day for work and even get a monthly phone stipend to have an up to date phone.
But dear lord I had to jump through so many hoops when in the past I would’ve just physically swapped the SIM cards. They wouldn’t activate my wife’s sim without her confirming a code sent to her phone number… which was the sim I was trying to activate so I couldn’t get the text! And it wouldn’t let me activate via my number also on the account or email. The only way I finally got it to work was to have them send an e-sim as a second phone number to my phone then use Apple’s tool to transfer my second number to her phone. Anything I tried with ATT resulted in telling me to go to the store.
I tried to pair my Apple Watch to the 16 Pro and it refused to be found even though it worked fine on the phone I transferred from. Eventually I gave up and reset the Apple Watch to pair it as new and it said it needs to be updated first and it’s now been 6 hours and the progress bar still says 3 days remaining on updating the watch. Total nightmare. I had my phone right next to the watch on the charger for 2 hours and the progress bar got to maybe 5% but I can’t just leave my phone on my nightstand for 3 days.
Well at least you found out AT&T is pretty secure when it comes to these type of transactions 🤓
Must be nice. I did a direct transfer from iPhone 13 Pro to 16 Pro. All my apps were put in the right place on the screen, but they weren’t loaded. Just the app with the little iCloud icon. Not a huge deal, just a little annoying. And on the bright side, it forced me to think about the last time I used some of these apps and if I really still need them.
I have a fast network here, but I was actually amazed and mentioned to a friend how great the transfer was this year. I did the phone to phone transfer from a 15 PM.
I have about 125 apps, 45,000 iCloud photos, reminders, contacts, notes, and the whole transfer was done in 57 minutes! It still said Messages and Photos were syncing, but I saw nothing missing from Messages (in iCloud). Photos was syncing, but all the thumbnails were there already for almost 200 shared albums (which took days in the past). I tapped into 3 or 4 of the biggest shared folders, vacation ones with 200+ photo, and they were all there!
I'll also say the phone got hot syncing - YET - not once did I see the phone report it had to pause and let it cool down like with the 15 PM. So isn't the outside supposed to be hot if the heat is being transferred out? Sounds to me the heat issues of the 15 are not there in the 16 so far. (I could get the needs to cool down message just taking 35 photos and watching them sync to iCloud btw.)
The only app I logged into was Gmail - and I just had to tap to sign in, it knew the password etc. Very, very clean for me.
I have about 125 apps, 45,000 iCloud photos, reminders, contacts, notes, and the whole transfer was done in 57 minutes! It still said Messages and Photos were syncing, but I saw nothing missing from Messages (in iCloud). Photos was syncing, but all the thumbnails were there already for almost 200 shared albums (which took days in the past). I tapped into 3 or 4 of the biggest shared folders, vacation ones with 200+ photo, and they were all there!
I'll also say the phone got hot syncing - YET - not once did I see the phone report it had to pause and let it cool down like with the 15 PM. So isn't the outside supposed to be hot if the heat is being transferred out? Sounds to me the heat issues of the 15 are not there in the 16 so far. (I could get the needs to cool down message just taking 35 photos and watching them sync to iCloud btw.)
The only app I logged into was Gmail - and I just had to tap to sign in, it knew the password etc. Very, very clean for me.
I restore from a PC backup everytime. My apps all came over with no issues but my email and notifications are always broken. I have to delete all my email accounts, reboot, then add back again. Notifications for emails still seem to be issue though despite all my settings being correct?