If you have your current device backed up with iCloud, this process will be very easy. Assuming you have it backed up, start your new device. If it doesn't come up with a welcome screen, you will have to reset it from settings. If it behaves like a new device, you can restore from an iCloud backup.
I don't know of other ways to transfer apps besides the iCloud method or the iTunes method. hth, teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Apr 28, 2014, at 5:40 AM, goshawk on horseback <goshawk_on_horseb...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > hello all, > sorry for asking, as this has probably been covered at some time, but I have > been offered a good deal on an iPhone 5S upgrade, and am tempted to take it. > what I would like to know however, is how easy is it to transfer contacts, > apps music, videos, tones etc. from one iPhone to another? I'm currently > using a 4s. > I will not be using iTunes, as I have never been able to get that to work > properly for me, so am looking for ways that do not use iTunes only please. > my main concern is my apps, as I have a lot of them, and have them in various > folders, so is there a way of transferring that setting across, so that my > folder structure also goes on to the new iPhone, rather than just the apps > alone, which means that I have to then sort them all out again? as with all > of the apps I have, that would be a very big job, and one that I would not > look forward to. > > Simon > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. 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 post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. 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 post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
