Tap "Continue" to start. 5. An Apple Watch-style pairing image will appear on the new device, and you'll be instructed to scan it with the camera on your existing device. 6. In an area with decent lighting, hold the existing device's camera over the image on the new device to pair the two together. 7. Enter the passcode from your existing device on the new device.
8. From there, all of your data will start transferring from the old device to the new device. In my opinion it is no good for replacing devices. I used it twice for migration. It was a pain both times. At some point the process askes if a backup should be restored. The iOS in the box was always older than the iOS on the old device. Therefore iTunes couldn’t restore the backup onto the new device.
Upgrade and then backup old phone and Apple Watch BEFORE starting express update. NOTE your paid content WILLNOT be copied over via express update. That’s right. Any other path and your one or two years of Apple Watch Data is gone. It won’t move your music or other content. Not even if it’s backed up in Apple cloud in your latest backup.
And not even if you bought it on iTunes - though you can download it again after you are all setup. More on that later. Third. Although your iCloud based backup, that you pay Apple for every month, contains all of your music. They will NOT move your music or other content to the new device. You still need to use iTunes for that. So why bother downloading from iTunes Store again, since you already have it in your library and will need to reload all that music from your computer anyway. Macrumors needs to learn how to be critical. Not just a smoke factory.
Download Play Music manager here and install it on your PC. You will need to sign in with your Google ID. During setup, you will be asked where you store your music. Choose iTunes, and select upload all songs and playlists. Once you have it all installed and ready to go, you can upload up to 50,000 songs to your account, which can be accessed on any device, and you can still use your iTunes account if you wish. If you are moving to a new Android handset, it can be a relatively simple procedure.
Some can start the process over NFC simply by tapping two compatible phones back to back. But in general, when you start the setup of your new handset, Android will ask if you want to move from another Android phone, and give you the option of specific backups in a drop down menu.
That should bring settings, app data and so on over to your new phone. First things first: make sure backups are enabled on your old phone. Backup and reset and select Back up my data. That will back up your phone to the cloud. Google and choose your Gmail account address.
Check Sync contacts is checked. You can also force a sync by pressing Sync Now. Images that are on your phone are probably already saved to Google Photos, but if not, you can set it up easily. If Google Photos isn’t included on your handset, download the app from the Play Store.
Open the Google Photos app and tap the menu icon. Back up & sync. This could take a while, depending on how many photos and videos you have. If all else fails, you can transfer contacts, photos, videos and other content by Bluetooth, although it can be a time consuming project.
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