Hi List,
I fully intended to write up and post an iPhone 13 setup document as I did when setting up my iPhone SE 2020 in late April of last year. However, after my dreadful setup experience with my 13 Mini, I became so frustrated with just getting it done that I stopped taking notes. As a cautionary note to those setting up new devices, I strongly suggest that you don't have a later version of iOS running on your older device than the version of iOS running on the newer device that is being set up with an iPhone to iPhone transfer. I'm convinced that having iOS 15.01 on my SE 2020 and iOS 15 on my 13 Mini was the main factor that caused my setup to fail. After about four failed setup attempts and a couple of calls to Apple Support, I ended up setting up the new iPhone as a new device with no iPhone transfer or restoration of any backup. I then upgraded that new phone containing none of my settings or data to iOS 15.01 when prompted. I then connected it to my Windows 10 computer and iTunes and restored the encrypted backup I had made to the 13 Mini. Note that when I tried restoring my encrypted backup while the 13 Mini was still on iOS 15, iTunes returned an error message saying it couldn't restore a backup of a later version of iOS to a device running an earlier version. So, I've learned a hard lesson and hope that my sharing this will help others to avoid something similar. Now, the only thing I have to figure out is how to get my iTunes music playlists that I had previously synced to past iPhones to my 13 Mini. Since I didn't do a phone to phone transfer, my music didn't move over. I would have thought that an iTunes encrypted backup would have included music but I seem to recall now that Richard might have mentioned this in another post. I'm a bit concerned because I don't think syncing music playlists with iTunes still works as it once did. I'm not sure I feel up to resetting the 13 Mini back to factory in order to attempt another phone to phone transfer but if this is the only way to get my music moved over, I'll consider it. Alan Lemly -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/08b201d7be68%240b263ad0%242172b070%24%40gmail.com.
