Originally Posted by
bocastephen
I ordered a new iPhone 12 Pro Max to replace my 7+ and am trying to figure out the best way to move to the new phone without dragging over any of the OS and app junk that often makes my 7+ lag or behave strangely resulting in a hard reboot.
I know of the following two migration options, but not sure which one is best:
1. set new phone up directly from a backup of the 7+
2. set the new phone up as "new" then restore a 7+ backup over the new phone OS
But I am hoping for a 3rd option, which I don't know if it's possible - set the new phone up as new, install and configure the apps that I want from scratch, I don't care about the app data, but the missing part is how to sync over my photos (all 10,000 of them) and my text messages - is there a way to do this?
I did the third option in the past and had no problem with the photos since they are in icloud, and downloaded the thumbnails fine automatically. I didn't care about keeping the text message cache of old pictures and documents.