That’s right, you’re going to want to back up your old iPhone after you have your new iPhone X in hand, so the backup is as up-to-date as it can possibly be. For an iTunes backup: Connect your old iPhone to your Mac, launch iTunes, select your iPhone by clicking the little phone icon in the toolbar, and under Backups, choose This Computer.
Checking Encrypt local backup is a good idea, so your account passwords and Health data gets backed up too—just choose a password you won’t forget. Click the button to Back up now. When the backup is done, connect your new iPhone X, then tell iTunes you want to restore from the backup you just made.
2 below and use Quick Start. Backup. But it never hurts to run a backup on your own Mac every now and then. For an iCloud backup: No need to connect your iPhone to your Mac. Cloud Backup and select Back up now. When setting up your new iPhone X, you can restore your iPhone from this backup once you’ve logged into your new device with your Apple ID. Quick Start makes setting up a new iPhone fast and easy.
OS 11 introduces a really great new feature called Quick Start. It’s sort of like magic. You just hold your new phone next to your old phone, and a little card pops up asking if you want to transfer all your stuff to the new device. You’ll then point your old phone’s camera at your new phone (which displays a cloud of little dots) and enter your old phone’s 6-digit passcode. You’ll go through the rest of the setup process, like enabling Face ID, and then your phone will be ready to go, set up just like your old iPhone.
It’ll even prompt you to update your old iPhone’s backup if it hasn’t been backed up in awhile. Setting up your phone this way transfers over most of your settings, the arrangement of your home screen, and more. It’s a huge time saver. But it requires iOS 11, so if you haven’t updated your old phone to iOS 11 for some reason, you might want to do that ASAP.
You don’t want to have to wait through a big update process once you have your iPhone X in hand. After setting up your phone this way, you’ll want to give it a few minutes to re-download all your apps. Initially, your phone will show placeholders for your apps, all arranged and stuffed into folders exactly as on your old iPhone.
But every time you download an app from the App Store, your phone actually grabs a unique version specifically optimized for that iPhone model. So your new phone has to download the apps again, but your user data and settings get transferred over. 1 above. If anything goes really wrong during your setup process, you’ll be glad you did! Yes, you should use Face ID for maximum security—it’s the quickest way to unlock your iPhone X, and will let you set a more complicated passcode, since you don’t have to type it in every time.
Setting up Face ID is much faster than Touch ID, too—the setup screen will promt you and ask you to slowly look around in a circle a couple times. It’s a lot quicker than tapping the home button dozens of times to register a fingerprint. Setting up Face ID is a lot faster than Touch ID. Worried about your privacy with Face ID, Don’t be. No photos of your face nor any other biometric data ever leave your phone—Apple doesn’t get any of that.
And it isn’t accessible by other apps, just as other apps weren’t able to access your fingerprints with Touch ID. You can read all about it in our Face ID FAQ. Since you need to have Face ID enabled in order to use Apple Pay, this would be a good time to jump into Apple’s Wallet app to set that up.
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