Best Options For Moving To A New iPhone
Nov 19, 2020, 9:11 pm
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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.)
Worst case, it goes haywire and I just wipe the new phone and restore from backup.
Nov 20, 2020, 10:24 am
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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 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?
Nov 21, 2020, 9:56 am
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I agree with loading the new phone from the backup - I've done this countless times and never struggled with performance issues or noticed excessive storage being used with 'bloat'.
One issue I have spotted though is with historic SMS message. They all transfer over, but if I scroll back through a conversation (about a year) I start to spot the messages are out of order. Only in blocks of around five, so you can still follow the conversation, but they're clearly not in the order they were sent. Thought I'd mention seen as you specifically said you wanted to back up text messages!
One issue I have spotted though is with historic SMS message. They all transfer over, but if I scroll back through a conversation (about a year) I start to spot the messages are out of order. Only in blocks of around five, so you can still follow the conversation, but they're clearly not in the order they were sent. Thought I'd mention seen as you specifically said you wanted to back up text messages!