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Other 📱📱U.S.A. - Apple.com - New iPhone 16/Plus/Pro/Pro Max US Pre-Orders, Orders, and Delivery Status Thread (2024)
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Good time to start getting ready!
Here is a video from Apple Support showing how to migrate to your new iPhone.
This video is 8 months old, and it is possible there will be some different processes with iPhone 16 and/or iOS 18. I will be checking for updated videos from Apple Support before I actually begin my migration.
For now, here are some recommendations from and about the video linked below.
Upon booting the new iPhone, several prompts will lead to Quick Start and you will have several options to transfer data via Download from iCloud or Transfer from iPhone. Among the expected steps will be the option to transfer your SIM or eSIM to the new phone's eSIM, which will transfer your cellular plan to the new iPhone.
As there will be an update for at least the new iPhone, at some point there will be a prompt to download and update the iOS, perhaps for both devices. If you are running a beta it will ask if you want to move the new device to the beta.
If you plan to migrate using Download from iCloud, GO NOW to Settings>General>Transfer or Reset iPhone. Follow prompts which will create a new entire phone backup, and click Done. Apple gives you 21 days of free iCloud Backup so you may set up the new iPhone without having to buy more iCloud Storage just to do the migration. I recommend waiting till new phone is up and running before resetting and erasing old phone.
If you select Download from iCloud after Quick Start the migration will start via wifi. At some point you'll be able to start using the new iPhone as it continues to download apps.
If you select Transfer from iPhone, you will need to keep both iPhones plugged in and side by side for the duration of the migration. You will not be able to use either iPhone until the process is complete.
Some have said in this thread that they will set up their new phone as "new" and won't transfer. You may use Quick Start for easy access to your Apple Account and then choose "Set up Without Another Device". Prompts will guide you with appropriate options.
I do hope this is helpful now instead of realizing on Friday with the iPhone in hand that you don't know the plan. Enjoy the adventure!
Wow, that was quite a bit of typing and editing. lol
edit: a Quick Start article from Apple:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102659
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I love the "tomorrow" being stated minutes after midnight. I almost always think that means when I wake up after going to sleep tonight. Arrrggghhhh!
OH, NO! Another AfterShip controversy! After what we've already been through!
Pretty sure that's premature, they won't be shipping them out of Louisville for at least another 18 hours!
They want them arriving after closing Thursday and before opening Friday. Any day early shipments could compromise the Launch Day deliveries and we wouldn't want that. Or Apple wouldn't want that!
edit: much easier to keep it all under control in one location than in hundreds of UPS CC buildings!
Also, iPhones aren't the only foreign-made things to fly into and out of that hub. They all require a customs clearance.
For some perspective on UPS World Port. There was a YouTube video posted last year as well that was good.
aerosavvy.com
Inside Louisville's UPS Worldport - AeroSavvy
Take a look inside of Louisville's UPS Worldport. This massive, automated facility can handle four million packages and 300 flights a day!
aerosavvy.com
Just noticed my UPS MyChoice account was created in September 2014, 10 years ago to the month, because I created it (and my MacRumors account) just so I could take part in the iPhone 6 tracking hysteria. I remember how deflated I was after my order got delayed by almost a week. Literally everyone wanted that phone.
I lived in Cupertino at the time and the day after the iPhone 6 keynote (which was held at my local college De Anza) I was at a local coffee shop right next to 1 Infinite Loop and saw an Apple employee sitting there chatting with some coworkers... he was wearing a stainless steel Apple Watch, half a year prior to when it was finally released.
The iPhone releases I remember most fondly are the iPhone 6 because it was such a huge deal (radical new design, super thin, the first 'big' iPhone Plus, and of course the Apple Watch unveil) as well as the iPhone 4, the one and only time I queued up at the Apple Store on release day back when they didn't have pickup windows. You had to get there super early in the morning to line up. The Apple Store paid for coffee + croissants for a bunch of people that were lined up.
I think my favorite release had to be the 3G though. I was in complete awe at that phone. I must have been 8 or 9 years old when that released and I remember holding it for the first time after my dad got one. Nothing will ever beat the magic of holding an iPhone 3G for the first time for me because there's no beating childlike wonder over technology. Now I'm old (by zoomer standards) and jaded by new releases. Plus kids today grew up with this technology so they don't care about the novelty either.
I lived in Cupertino at the time and the day after the iPhone 6 keynote (which was held at my local college De Anza) I was at a local coffee shop right next to 1 Infinite Loop and saw an Apple employee sitting there chatting with some coworkers... he was wearing a stainless steel Apple Watch, half a year prior to when it was finally released.
The iPhone releases I remember most fondly are the iPhone 6 because it was such a huge deal (radical new design, super thin, the first 'big' iPhone Plus, and of course the Apple Watch unveil) as well as the iPhone 4, the one and only time I queued up at the Apple Store on release day back when they didn't have pickup windows. You had to get there super early in the morning to line up. The Apple Store paid for coffee + croissants for a bunch of people that were lined up.
I think my favorite release had to be the 3G though. I was in complete awe at that phone. I must have been 8 or 9 years old when that released and I remember holding it for the first time after my dad got one. Nothing will ever beat the magic of holding an iPhone 3G for the first time for me because there's no beating childlike wonder over technology. Now I'm old (by zoomer standards) and jaded by new releases. Plus kids today grew up with this technology so they don't care about the novelty either.
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My girlfriend still has her 3GS.
You make me feel really old. I remember my father bringing home a brand new tool that he'd just purchased for the women who worked in the office at his business. It was an electronic calculator. And believe me, that was a huge improvement in technology over a mechanical adding machine — look it up if you've never seen one. Adding machines added and subtracted. Period. Multiplication and division was done via addition and subtraction. But this brand new calculator thing could do all four operations. It was huge by today's standards — almost as big as our old-fashioned dial telephone. My father said that this was the future, and he really wanted me to see it. I wasn't allowed to touch it because it was very, very expensive.
I wonder what he'd think of our technology now.
I stood in like for the 3G. It was a great phone.
I have not seen anyone having 8:00am or 8:30am check-in windows for Apple Store pick-up, does anyone ??
The chances are very good you will have to update os prior to data on you new phone before transfering. Make sure you current phone is updated to 18.0
Everyone enjoy!
Everyone enjoy!
Unless your old device won’t go up to the current os. A couple 8 plus posters here, they are on 16.7. Should still work fine though
Negative.
The new phone needs to be on a more current os. Old phone can be on any os.
Nope. Likely will start seeing things this afternoon when the main sort starts.
Same here. No UPS my choice tracking either. First year I have no tracking info.
How do you feel about the starfruit? The color online looked more yellow, but it appears to be more light green in person compared to my 14PM case.