‼️NEED HELP WITH MY XR‼️

chrystallynn1966

Ok, so I've got the iPhone XR sitting here still in the box new and I've had it for about two weeks. I really need some help on transferring everything from my old iPhone 5 to my new XR. I know pics & phone numbers can be transferred but I have a TON of pages from Safari that I've added to my home screen, saving recipes, articles, shopping, basically anytime I come across something that I want to save I add it to my home screen. Now I'm panicking because I have so much stuff that I really don't want to loose and I have no idea how to transfer or if they even can be transferred to my XR. Also what about apps that I've downloaded. Can they be transferred? And will my text messages transfer? I HAVE researched trying to find out how to do this but nothing is really clear about the things I've mentioned here except for pics. And I'm still not sure how to even do those. I don't have wifi so I'm guessing I would have to go through iTunes?? If anyone can help me with this I would be forever grateful!!!! So ready to get this bad boy up and going!!
TY in advance!!! 

Marvin

chrystallynn1966 said:

I don't have wifi so I'm guessing I would have to go through iTunes??

Using iTunes is probably the fastest way. You'd create a backup of your old device and then restore that backup to the new one:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204184

Open iTunes, click the old device then "Backup Now". When it's done, connect the new device and choose "Restore Backup".

SpamSandwich

Marvin said:

chrystallynn1966 said:

I don't have wifi so I'm guessing I would have to go through iTunes??

Using iTunes is probably the fastest way. You'd create a backup of your old device and then restore that backup to the new one:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204184

Open iTunes, click the old device then "Backup Now". When it's done, connect the new device and choose "Restore Backup".

This clearly demonstrates that the concepts of iCloud backup, iTunes as a repository for backup of the entire device, etc. are utterly baffling to new users or people unfamiliar with the platform. Apple could do a lot more for customers to clarify the services.

spheric

Actually, by far the easiest way if you’re logged into your iCloud account is to follow instructions on the new phone, place the old one next to it when prompted, follow instructions, and wait. 

Auto-recognition of the old phone and automatic transfer of EVERYTHING is pretty amazing. 

Marvin

SpamSandwich said:

Marvin said:

chrystallynn1966 said:

I don't have wifi so I'm guessing I would have to go through iTunes??

Using iTunes is probably the fastest way. You'd create a backup of your old device and then restore that backup to the new one:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204184

Open iTunes, click the old device then "Backup Now". When it's done, connect the new device and choose "Restore Backup".

This clearly demonstrates that the concepts of iCloud backup, iTunes as a repository for backup of the entire device, etc. are utterly baffling to new users or people unfamiliar with the platform. Apple could do a lot more for customers to clarify the services.

I agree, I think it would be very helpful for users to have really simple backup and data transfer options. iCloud seems to be treated more as a data sync feature than backup, probably due to the 5GB initial size, which isn't enough to do any kind of backup these days. Users still aren't being made aware strongly enough that by default they only have one copy of their data and they should have backups somewhere.

When buying a new device, it would even be possible to do device-to-device transfer with peer to peer wifi. Just sit a new phone next to an old one and tell it to transfer the data over. It can do the config transfer first like email accounts, notes, contacts and this would take seconds. Then the apps list with most used ones first and the app data. Then the heavy data like photos, music, videos, which can be done in the background like how device encryption is done, making it clear it's not complete but the device can still be used and the process will resume later if it's out if range.

An offline backup solution would be nice to have too the more that people are treating iPads/iPhones as their main devices. Time Machine for iOS essentially. This could be in the form of a wireless drive like a 256GB-1TB wireless SSD or just be able to use the normal Time Machine drives for Macs. Maybe even be able to use an iPad as a backup. If someone has a 32GB iPhone and 128GB iPad, they could backup the iPhone to the iPad and restore a new iPhone from the iPad.