In October this year, the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro were the first to hit the market, and many consumers were able to purchase these two new models at once. The first thing you should do when you get a new phone is to import data from your old iPhone into your new one, but you should have experienced the pain of migrating data from a green app, which is inefficient in transferring several gigabytes or even dozens of gigabytes of data. There’s even an urge to drop the phone.
In fact, iOS has provided us with many data migration solutions, we can directly migrate all the data from the old iPhone to the new iPhone without any loss, not only all the data in the application is retained, even the location of the application remains unchanged. The usage habits on the old iPhone can still be continued on the new iPhone.
data migration
There are many ways to transfer data from an old iPhone to a new iPhone, and one of them is to go to the Apple Store and ask for help from the store staff. In the meantime, we’re going to bring you a complete data migration strategy, and we hope you’ll find it useful. Some help for all of you.
Preparing for data migration
According to the official information provided by Apple, there are ways of data transfer such as backup recovery from iCloud cloud, backup recovery from PC or Mac, direct transfer from iPhone and transferring data from Android devices. In my personal experience, backup recovery from PC or Mac via wired method or direct data transfer from old iPhone are the two most efficient ways.
There are many ways to migrate data
If you choose to recover from the backup on PC or Mac, you need to make sure you have a PC or Mac with more remaining capacity than the data capacity of the old iPhone, and then open “Access” on Mac or iTunes on PC, backup the data of the old iPhone, and recover on the new iPhone. . With this transfer method, all the data on the new iPhone, even the location of applications, will be exactly the same as on the old iPhone.
If you have a lot of data or don’t have space on your computer, transferring directly from your iPhone is the best way to go. As long as your iPhone is running iOS 12.4 or later, you can transfer data directly from your old device to your new one by using the device migration feature. There are two ways to migrate data between devices: wireless and wired. Wireless transfer is easier, but it requires a higher network environment. Wired transmission is more stable, but requires a “Lightning to USB 3 camera adapter”, a “Lightning to USB cable” and a high power USB-A charging head to complete. Data transfer works.
How does it work?
In recent years, the use of Quick Start to transfer data has become a new option for many users. Place the new device next to the current one and the “Quick Start” pop-up will appear on the current device. Make sure this is the Apple ID we want to use and tap “Continue” to see an animation appear on the new device similar to the Apple Watch pairing, pick up the current device and place it on top of the new one, center the animation in the viewfinder and you’re done verifying.
Use “Quick Start” to set up your iPhone and transfer data.
Data transfer method: download from iCloud or transfer from iPhone.
After verification, we just need to set the lock screen password, face ID or touch ID to start downloading data from iCloud cloud backup or transferring data from our old iPhone.
If you have a large amount of data, transferring data from iPhone via wired method is also a good choice. We need to connect the old model to the “Lightning to USB 3 Camera Converter”, and then connect the new device to the “Lightning to USB Cable” and power up the combo to ensure that the data is transferred in the right way. The whole solution for transferring data is done with power all the time.
Lightning to USB 3 Camera Converter
Lightning to USB cable
After setting the language, network, face ID/touch ID, etc. in the same order, we can see a prompt on the phone to indicate whether to transfer data from the old iPhone or not, and the system will estimate the migration time according to the amount of data, we just need to click “Continue” to complete the transfer.
If you have a lot of free space on your PC or Mac, using iTunes to backup is also a good choice. Connect the device to your computer and open AccessTech on a Mac with the latest version of macOS Catalina 10.15, or open iTunes on a Mac or PC with an older version of macOS, and you will find the device in the sidebar or top bar. Click “Backup Now” on the device detail page to start the backup of the whole device.
Find the equipment in the sidebar of “Access”.
Find the device on the top bar of iTunes
Choose to backup all data on your iPhone to this Mac, and then click Backup Now!
Note that if you want to store your Health and Fitness data on your device or Apple Watch, you will also need to set a password that you can remember and encrypt your backups, but if you don’t want to store your Health and Fitness data, you can make unencrypted backups.
Restore a freshly encrypted backup.
After the backup is complete, we need to follow the corresponding prompts on the new iPhone, set the language, network, face ID/touch ID and other information, and then select “restore from Mac or PC”, insert the new phone and follow the prompts on the Mac or PC, you can restore the backup files. Do you still remember the password you set above when encrypting your backup? During recovery, we need to enter the backup password we just set, so that we can finish the recovery work through iTunes or Mac access.
Some notes
After transferring the data in the above way, the data on the new machine is almost identical to the data on the old machine. However, we still need to transfer the data on the new device by ourselves if we need to use the traffic card and bank card in Apple Pay, which require high security.
In order to use the traffic and bank cards in Apple Pay on the new machine, you need to remove the said cards from your old iPhone or Apple Watch first, and then you can add the bank and traffic cards to the new device again when you log in another iPhone or Apple Watch with the same Apple ID.
Take the example of a transit card that we use more frequently on a daily basis. After removing the bus card from the old iPhone, the balance on the card is not lost. It’s still stored in our Apple ID account, and we can see the bus card information on our old iPhone simply by adding the card directly to our new device. This operation is a bit like moving the card into the recycle bin, but adding the card directly to the new iPhone is like restoring the card information from the recycle bin. And if you’re really worried about the balance of your bus card and the deposit you’ve already paid, you can also return your card directly in the app that corresponds to your bus card, and then open the new card again on your new device to use it normally.
Transferring the bus card to the new iPhone
In addition, when we finish transferring the data, we can find that some apps still show as “waiting”, we just need to make sure that the App Store is in “WLAN and cellular network”, then we can wait for the app to finish downloading.
Some users buy new machines that are smaller in capacity compared to the old ones, and if you are one of these users, you may want to delete the data from some applications and make backups. At the moment, for most users, the amount of data stored by WeChat is relatively large, followed by some large handhelds. The Photo app, where we take videos and Live Photo, also occupies a larger space. If your new iPhone is low on capacity, you can consider deleting some of the useless data, or uninstalling some unused apps and then finish the backup operation.
Make an appointment in the Apple Support app
It’s worth mentioning that Apple also offers a benefit to those who participate in the “New Year’s Update” program, in which those who participate in the program can back up and restore their data directly at the Apple Store when they get a new phone, while those who don’t participate in the program must make an appointment in Apple Support to back up and restore their data at the store.
Moving from Android devices to iOS
In addition to iOS users, Apple has also created the Move to iOS app for Android users, which transfers some of the data from your Android phone to your iPhone. It can transfer contacts, message history, camera photos and videos, web bookmarks, email accounts and calendars, and certain free apps available on both Google Play and the App Store will also transfer. It’s not as lossless as the transfer between Apple’s own iOS devices, but it can make it somewhat easier for Android users to switch to an iPhone.
At the moment, this application is not available in most app stores in China, but Apple has kindly prepared a download link for us in the “Transfer from Android to iPhone, iPad or iPod touch” page of Apple Support. In addition, due to the different security policies of Android phones, some of them may show a reminder to change the security settings in order to install a file from an unknown source, so we just need to follow the appropriate steps to complete the installation. In addition, we need to provide all the permissions for the app after the installation is complete to ensure that all the data from the Android phone can be transferred to the new iPhone.
Enter the code on the device
To set up a new iOS device, we need to click “Transfer data from Android device” in the “Apps & Data” option. Also open the ‘Transfer to iOS’ app on your Android device and tap ‘Continue’. Read the displayed terms and conditions, tap “Agree” to continue, and then enter the 10- or 6-digit code that appears on your iOS device to complete the pairing. Once paired, leave the two devices alone until the load bar on the iOS device completes, which means the data transfer is complete. The entire transfer process can take a while, depending on the amount of content being transferred.
Once the data transfer is complete, we just need to continue setting up the Apple ID, phone password, face ID/touch ID, etc. on the iOS device to use the new iPhone normally.
Write at the end.
After getting a new iPhone, backing up and restoring data should be a routine operation for many users. If you don’t have a large amount of data, wireless transfer via iCloud should be the most efficient way, and these backup and recovery methods we’ve introduced are more suitable for those users who have a large amount of data.
Of course, data backup and recovery is a long process. Take myself as an example, two mobile phones through the wired transfer of 100G data took almost an hour, in this hour the phone can not use other functions in addition to receiving phone calls, so on days off or leisure time for data migration, to avoid delaying daily use, is the better choice.
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