I'm getting myself a new iPhone 15 Plus. I will be picking it up at Verizon tomorrow

[Walleye]

Trading in my old iPhone 7 which is becoming obsolete. Just wondering if anybody has any tips of what I should or should I do. I will be paying the $29.95 to get all my info transferred from my old phone to the new one. Has anyone done that?

[mitch96]

1. When I got my new iPhone the carrier transferred the info as part of the service...

No problems with the transfer..
Spectrum mobile
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[Phoenix61]

2. Verizon did it for free for me. Although I wasn't making

that big of jump.

[captain queeg]

3. Yea just tecently. Verizon was running a special.

I got an iPhone 15 and my son got the 15+.. we did the data transfer right at the store. We probably screwed around for an hour as the salesman was distracted every few minutes. Don’t leave the store till they’ve walked thru all the necessary setup.

[Walleye]

6. Thank you.

[emulatorloo]

4. Verison will do it for you at the store. Or do it yourself, it isn't difficult. See this Apple technote:

Transfer data from your previous iOS or iPadOS device to your new iPhone or iPad
https://support.apple.com/en-us/119967

Apple tech support will talk you through it if you need them to. Or verison tech support will too.



Enjoy yr new phone. I went from a 10 to a 14, was a great upgrade.

[Walleye]

7. Thanks

[emulatorloo]

9. Of course!

[usonian]

5. I just got a new iPhone SE

(I have super computers and cameras, so the phone is as simple as can be)

The old iPhone 8 was backed up to iCloud. So iCloud had all my settings and contacts and so on. And they were downloaded from iCloud. Bingo, a working phone. I needed the iCloud login to do this.

I did NOT want the hundreds of old apps, but once you purchase an app, it can be downloaded from the App Store any time. (A tiny number are obsolete and can’t) I chose to download apps as I needed, making the screens as simple as possible. Speeded things up, as well.


Now, I recall that with a new phone, you can transfer everything just by putting the two phones in proximity, and asking to transfer everything (with suitable passwords). Same for iCloud restore from backup, perhaps slower. This is all free.


I suspect that the transfer fee means that someone at Verizon is going to do the transfer for you, and perhaps using a box normally used by authorities to break into phones, because I saw a Verizon dealer do so legitimately for a customer.

Verizon should be able to do all you need. Do have your iCloud account and password available. You will need them, as well as your Verizon login and password.

Enjoying my much fewer apps.
Good luck. Enjoy. Hope your transfer goes smoothly and quickly.

[Ocelot II]

8. I got a new 14 last year at an Apple store and they did the data transfer.

I didn't have to pay extra for it. It was weird, they just set the new phone next to the old one, and the new one magically sucked all the data out of the old one.