Changing to an iPhone 15 from an older iPhone? Do this very first and thank us later on

If you purchased an iPhone 15 series gadget today and you’ve been having problem getting your phone established, you’re not alone, however there’s excellent news. Apple has actually provided its very first software application upgrade for iOS 17and it repairs issues with the iPhone 15 moving information from older gadgets.

If you have an older iPhone, go to the Settings app and choose the General settings alternatives. Select the Software Update. If you belong to the Beta Updates program, you might require to turn beta updates off in order to get this upgrade.

If your phone is running iOS 17, you ought to upgrade right away to either iOS 17.0.1 or iOS 17.0.2 if you intend on purchasing a brand-new iPhone 15, or if you are moving information in between 2 iPhones. If your phone isn’t running iOS 17, and it’s less than 5 years of ages, it truly must be, due to the fact that the brand-new system is great. You can read our iOS 17 evaluation

Issues on launch day are absolutely nothing brand-new to Apple or its fans, not if you have an enough time iPhone history to keep in mind. These issues tend to turn up on the first day because, I’m thinking, more individuals trigger a new phone today than nearly any other day of the year.

We’ve seen problems reoccur, however never ever anything worth returning an iPhone over. If you have a brand-new phone and you’re having problem moving information from your old iPhone, attempt upgrading the phone initially to see if Apple has actually provided you a repair.

Yes, it even occurred to me, however Apple repaired it

I got my iPhone 15 Pro Max today and was having problem setting it up with my iPhone 14 Pro When this upgrade hit. I was anticipating my iPhone 15 Pro Max to merely discover my older iPhone. Bluetooth was switched on, as Apple recommends. Still, absolutely nothing was taking place.

My coworkers pinged the group Slack with news about the upgrade, and I right away upgraded my older phone. Some folks have actually seen iOS 17.0.2 readily available, my phone just required to upgrade to iOS 17.0.1 to get things working correctly.

As quickly as my iPhone 14 Pro had actually rebooted, my brand-new iPhone 15 Pro Max discovered it instantly. I took a picture of the onscreen pattern, part of the transfer procedure, and the Pro Max requested a software application upgrade, immediately. It was not a brief upgrade duration, it took more than fifteen minutes to finish.

When this was done, the whole procedure rebooted. I required to discover my iPhone 14 Pro once again, however this time, the brand-new Pro Max had no difficulty. It discovered my phone and copied all of my settings, and the 2 phones are presently in the procedure of sharing all of my information, wirelessly. My brand-new Pro Max states this must take 55 minutes for my 2 256GB phones.

Your various alternatives for moving iPhone information

If you are moving information in between iPhones today, Apple offers you a couple of alternatives and the fastest will depend upon what you wish to do next.

If you wish to begin utilizing your iPhone immediately, you can download a backup copy of your older iPhone from iCloudThis download takes place in the background so you can begin utilizing much of your iPhone’s functions right now. You can’t utilize whatever, including your App Store apps, till they have actually downloaded.

If you wish to get your iPhone entirely established with all of its apps as rapidly as possible, you can move straight from one iPhone to the other. Neither iPhone will be functional at all while this transfer takes place, and it can use up to an hour or longer, depending upon just how much you have actually saved on your phone. If you take a great deal of videos or play substantial video games, be prepared to wait a very long time.

The last choice is to support your iPhone to your Mac computer system, then just plug in your brand-new iPhone to your Mac. Your computer system must acknowledge the brand-new phone and assist you restore your backup to the brand-new gadget. This is a fantastic alternative for the brand-new USB-C iPhone 15 Proparticularly.

Apple does not recommend this 3rd choice on the iPhone 15 welcome screen, and I completely forgot that I might utilize that faster backup alternative before I began my 2 iPhones talking to each other. Now I require to wait … another half an hour, a minimum of.

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Phil Berne is a preeminent voice in customer electronic devices evaluates, having actually evaluated his very first gadget (the Sony D-EJ01 Discman) more than 20 years ago for eTown.com. He has actually been blogging about phones and mobile innovation, because before the iPhone, for a range of websites consisting of PCMag, infoSync, PhoneScoop, and Slashgear. He holds an M.A. in Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon University.

Phil was the internal customer for Samsung Mobile, composing viewpoints and evaluation forecasts about supersecret brand-new gadgets months before launch. He left in 2017. He operated at an Apple Store near Boston, MA, at the height of iPod appeal. He has actually been a High School English instructor at Title I schools, and is a qualified Lifeguard. His enthusiasm is smart devices and wearables, and he makes certain that the next huge thing will be phones we endure our faces.