#Quickstart iphone transfer how to

#Quickstart iphone transfer how to

You didn't ask, but in case you wonder how to speed things up, we set up caching servers which lets your iCloud backup be stored locally as well as caching app instals. Continuity ad hoc network is just used to signal the status and share wifi credentials, not transfer all the data. Wifi is still required to back up to iCloud and download the larger apps once the iCloud data and list of apps needed is downloaded from iCloud. Your new device offers the choice of restoring apps, data, and settings from your most recent iCloud backup, or updating your current device's backup and then restoring This does rely on bluetooth and wifi to enable a continuity connection to share the status of a backup and initiate the backups / restores. The guide you link to - step 6 explains how 'Quick Start' automates away many of the taps to set up the new device using an iCloud backup. You must still have first created an up to date backup, and select that as the source from which to restore.

Quick Start has no effect on how data is restored.

Entering your old device passcode (which you may have to do anyway depending on your setup, regardless of whether you use Quick Start or not).Using Quick Start, you will need to complete the following additional screen on the new device: Entering your Apple ID for iTunes and App Stores, if you use a different one.Using Quick Start, you will skip the following setup assistant screens on the new device: (In particular, the instructions to first unpair any Watch because this 'automatically backs up' the Watch, are incomplete at best.) It is still necessary to perform the usual steps to ensure that the backup from which you choose to restore is fully up to date. It's simply a way of skipping a couple of the more laborious screens in the setup assistant on the new device. Despite the description on Apple's website, Quick Start is not a distinct method for transferring content from an old to a new iOS device.