Clean setup on a new iPhone (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by infix@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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Hi folks, not sure if 'clean setup' is the right expression, but anyway... I've been sporting an iPhone X for 6 years and tomorrow I get my new iPhone 15 Pro. I was thinking of setting it up clean in the sense of manually adding my apps, email data etc, and not doing a simple transfer from the old iPhone.

Maybe it doesn't make sense to do it, maybe it does. I thought it could make sure there isn't any residual crap from the old phone, but to be honest I don't have any data to 100% assert that. Have any of you started with a phone replacement this way, or do you consider it pointless? If you have done it, any tips?

All opinions welcome, thanks!

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[-] turbodrooler@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

You are overthinking it. Switching to a new iPhone is something I’ve done half a dozen times and the best route is to make sure your old phone is backed up to iCloud, then restore the backup on the new phone. Note that this backup is not a file system image. It is pretty clean. If you were moving to a new Windows computer and you wanted to start fresh — heck yes. But for an iPhone, which will redownload all your apps from the App Store anyway, it’s not necessary. Restoring from iCloud backup is a huge timesaver and there is, in my experience, no benefit to not using it. Enjoy your new iPhone!

[-] infix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's fair enough what you are saying. Although my icloud package is tinyyyyy haha. Thanks!

[-] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

I think if you bought via Apple it’ll recognise your new purchase and give you a month of free iCloud data enough to do a full backup and restore, for this purpose

[-] infix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah. I didn’t know that, thanks!

[-] IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Backup to a laptop if you need to.

[-] turbodrooler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You’re welcome!

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