Re:Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable...
by jedberg on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:29PM
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The iPhone is amazing in this regard. I've upgraded multiple phones this way, and it's almost flawless.
Re:Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable...
by joshspankit on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:48AM
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I would temper this slightly as I’ve actually had cases where cruft also follows from one device to another.
It’s much better now than it used to be, but there are still time where I have to sacrifice data by uninstalling/reinstalling or resetting settings.
Top of my wishlist for iOS is Apple letting us manage (and potentially fix) our backup data.
If you have iCloud backups, do a final sync, then restore to the device you just bought. This has been the process for the last several iPhones I've bought for my family. At the Apple Store, they walk you through this process so everything is set up before you leave.
It's hard to tell the difference between your old and new device, in terms of software and data, for the most part.