I've been restoring from iCloud and iTunes backups forever when moving to a new or different iPhone. This past summer though, my iPhone was damaged while travelling and I had it replaced at an Apple Store. Not sure why, but I felt like starting fresh for the first time ever. Honestly its such a good feeling. So much is synced from iCloud, and I just slowly installed apps that I found I needed day to day. Maybe a bit of a nerdy thing or some time wasting, but its fun in a way to start fresh and spend some time with it.
The same here. Lot's of Apps and data. Way too much hassle to install from new every year. New only if there would be a problem.
Re-entering WiFi passwords and connecting Bluetooth devices is only a minor task.
Those of you planning on restoring from a backup, are you using iCloud backups or local backups on your computer??
Right now I have everything but my photos backed up via iCloud but I’m wondering if I should plug my iPhone X into my new MacBook Pro to back it up and then restore my 11 pro when it arrives from the MacBook backup.
Any advantage or disadvantage of doing it either way?
I would setup as a new device and copy the old pics to the new phone. That's it.
Installing from a fresh setup get's you rid of all those apps you don't use ;-) and give's a lot of free space on the new phone ;-)
If you have iCloud photos.
I don’t.
I like having my photos locally on my phone.
And even with iCloud photos I don’t know if they go to the camera roll or a different album for iCloud.
If you set up as new, will you still be able to see historical activity data from the watch?
I would setup as a new device and copy the old pics to the new phone. That's it.
Installing from a fresh setup get's you rid of all those apps you don't use ;-) and give's a lot of free space on the new phone ;-)
I haven't done a totally new iPhone setup in years, just been restoring from iCloud.
Just wondering if its time to set one up like its new or just do the iCloud restore? Any advantages to setting it up new?
If you set up as new, will you still be able to see historical activity data from the watch?
No you can't.
If you set up as new, will you still be able to see historical activity data from the watch?
No you can't.
I think that's right. Health, Activity and Workout info is backup up but if you don't restore it won't be restored. There's no iCloud sync for that data, like there is for a lot of the other data on the phone.
As a question not an argument, are you really sure that Health includes Activity and Workout? Losing that would be a big deal.
I'm finding Apple's KB pages somewhat confusing. It looks like Health data is (1) included in an iCloud backup but also, as a separate matter, (2) synced to iCloud. So, you could restore it as part of restoring a complete backup, but it looks like you could just let it sync, like Notes, Contacts, etc.
Even if that's right, I think I'd make either an encrypted iTunes backup or an iCloud backup just before I handed back or wiped my phone...