I am planning to upgrade from an iPhone 14 Pro to an iPhone 17 Pro.
I am wondering what is the best method to transfer my current things? I am looking for the most stable and reliable method; for a method with the least glitches but also that gets everything transferred over most reliably. However, if I had to make the trade-off between the two, I would choose least glitchiness.
There may also be the factor of skipping so many iPhone models to consider?
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phone to phone
I'd say phone to phone as it's I think, faster however with that being said I've done both and both work as advertised. It's all on what you wanna do and how quickly you want your stuff. I think though that if you still do phone to phone your apps would still have to download in the background. Correct me if I'm wrong as it's been a bit
Bugs and issues
On the blind group email, I suggest new if you are having issues with VO on 14 pro. New is good, done both in the past. 16 pro max, did new and works well just the notification issues with VO but you might not have that issue. Long live cats.
Phone to phone
If I recall correctly, transferring between phones keeps all your Keychain data, meaning that you are still able to use all your saved passwords and in some cases also authentication tokens on the new phone. Backing up to a computer via Finder on macOS or iTunes on Windows will also keep all your authentication credentials if you choose to encrypt the backups, but iCloud backups don't keep that information at least without turning Advanced Data Protection on, which I've never actually done myself so can't be sure.
Phone to phone usually works fine.
I try to keep a good backup, but I've had no trouble using phone to phone, except when I bought the 17 pro a while back. It failed three times in a row, and I sent it back. I bought a different, much cheaper se3 and it copied just fine. Maybe the universe was trying to tell me something.
I’ve had good successful phone to phone transfers
I have had good success with phone to phone transfers. My first iPhone was an eight. I successfully transferred everything from my eight to my iPhone SE third generation. And then when it was time for me to get a new phone again, I successfully transfer everything from my iPhone SE to my regular iPhone 15. I haven’t had any issues doing it that way. Although I have taken mine to the Apple Store and had them do it for me so that may also change, depending on which method you used to do it. But I’ve had good luck with that. Hope you enjoy your new phone.
Phone to phone
I’ve done it both ways and highly prefer bringing the phones together and let them transfer.
Another Vote for Device-to-Device Transfer
I did a device-to-device transfer from an iPhone 14 Pro Max to an iPhone 16 Pro Max for a family member over the holidays, and it went well. Importantly, I didn't hear anything about missing content or them needing to sign into their apps all over again, which was my biggest worry.
Phone to Phone
There were a few things I had to sign back into, but most things, like my Wi-Fi network were transferred. If I remember correctly, the bluetooth devices had to be connected to the new phone. I put a copy of the Led Zeppelin IV album on my phone a long time back from Windows and a CD. The phone to phone put it on the new one back in... 23. Just saved me some trouble. Went fine, took time.