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Set up my wife's new iPhone 13 today using the "Quick Start" method to transfer user data from her old phone to the new device. This is the first time I have tried this method and may I say it's far better than either downloading a backup from iCloud or "restoring" a backup of the old iPhone to the new device from a computer which is the way I have traditionally done this for years.
This article Use Quick Start to transfer data to a new iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from Apple describes the process but as is often the case leaves out a few details.
After establishing connection between the the two iPhones as described and entering the old device's PIN the new iPhone stated it needed to update the iOS version. This took an additional 40 min but the transfer process resumed as soon as the update completed and ran smoothly through the steps outlined in the article.
After completion the old iPhone offers you the option to keep both phones or completely erase the old device making it ready to either sell or trade in via Apple's trade in process.
In my case this meant taking the iPhone to a Post Office, presenting the trade in code sent to me by Apple and they supply a self addressed package sticker and the recommended packaging material free of charge. (Apple's email with the QR Code and Postal details should now be in email on your new iPhone). Worth checking this and ensuring you can locate that email on your new iPhone. If not forward it to yourself prior to your visit to the Post Office. I simply forwarded it to my iPhone.
The results of the transfer are an exact duplicate of the old device, passwords, settings, preferences are pretty much identical saving a lot of time setting ring tones, text size etc, but some things get missed like the Bluetooth devices list.
All up this is the easiest, fastest most complete data transfer method yet.
This article Use Quick Start to transfer data to a new iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from Apple describes the process but as is often the case leaves out a few details.
After establishing connection between the the two iPhones as described and entering the old device's PIN the new iPhone stated it needed to update the iOS version. This took an additional 40 min but the transfer process resumed as soon as the update completed and ran smoothly through the steps outlined in the article.
After completion the old iPhone offers you the option to keep both phones or completely erase the old device making it ready to either sell or trade in via Apple's trade in process.
In my case this meant taking the iPhone to a Post Office, presenting the trade in code sent to me by Apple and they supply a self addressed package sticker and the recommended packaging material free of charge. (Apple's email with the QR Code and Postal details should now be in email on your new iPhone). Worth checking this and ensuring you can locate that email on your new iPhone. If not forward it to yourself prior to your visit to the Post Office. I simply forwarded it to my iPhone.
The results of the transfer are an exact duplicate of the old device, passwords, settings, preferences are pretty much identical saving a lot of time setting ring tones, text size etc, but some things get missed like the Bluetooth devices list.
All up this is the easiest, fastest most complete data transfer method yet.
