Originally Posted by
cblaisd
I don't ordinarily buy a program for which the OS has the function built in, but I heartily recommend iMazing
https://imazing.com/ as an iTunes alternative (far less bloaty, many more features for granular backup/restore, etc.)
This looks like exactly what I want - seems I can clean out some of my photos from my Mac, maybe even sort the photos into albums (not sure, need to check if the app can do this), then move my texts and photos to the new phone. Everything else is in the cloud, so to speak - Google manages contacts, and the apps all have logins to pull the data and settings back down.
Worst case, it goes haywire and I just wipe the new phone and restore from backup.