Hi Sigrid and everyone. Thanks for getting back to me about my upgrade. I will do that with itunes and get an encrypted backup and then go to my new phone and have it restored. I should be getting my new phone soon and then will trade in my old one at TMobile.
Rebecca and Zeb email: rilni...@gmail.com twitter: zebs_mom Sent from my IPhone On Jul 31, 2014, at 8:08 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: Hi Rebecca, Alex pretty much hit on all the differences andsimilarities with respect to cables, buttons and size. My only suggestion is that you use iTunes to do an encrypted backup of your 4S and then restore from that backup using iTunes. This will give you the most complete backup with all passwords etc. Basically you connect your 4S to your computer, open iTunes and go to your device. Now tab a whole bunch of times, probably 20 or 25 times, until you find a checkbox to encrypt your backup. Activate it with the spacebar, you will now be prompted for a password, tab once and retype the same password, then tab to OK and activate it. Now your backup will start and jaws (if you are using \Jaws) will give you occasional progress indication, when it’s done you hear the familiar triple tone. This is a simple explanation, I don’t know anything about your iPhoneand whether you already sync from time to time with itunes in order to transfer music to your phone etc. When you get your new phone just hook it up to the computer, go to “File”, “Devices” and select “Restore”. iTunes will ask you to put in the password you selected when you did your encrypted backup and after that it will ask you if you want to restore from that backup. If all you have on your phone are a few apps and you don’t have email accounts set up and a lot of text messages and voice mails you want to preserve, then I would almost recommend that you set up as a new device and redownload your apps which you can do for free. Touch ID in my opinion is definitely the way to go. It works fantastically and it’s much easier and faster to unlock your phone with your fingerprint than even if you have no passcode set up at all. This way you have the security of a passcode and the ease of use. Keep in mind that if you ever reboot your phone that you have to enter your 4-digit passcode the first time after it reboots. Once you do that you can again use the fingerprint. Also, you can use a passcode without registering fingerprints, but you cannot do fingerprints without first setting up a passcode because it is always your fall back if the fingerprint for some reason is not recognized. One example could be that you get a cut on your fingertip or maybe you glued something and got some glue on the finger you use. If you are getting your phone at a physical Apple Store and if you have a laptop I would almost recommend that you take your laptop and get them to help you back up your old phone, set up the new phone and do the restore. The apple staff would be happy to do that and it might just be easier if somebody is there in case something is not going according to plan. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rebecca Ilniski Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:50 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: upgrading to a 5s Hi all. I'm going to be upgrading to the 5s. How is it different from the 4s? Is tripple click home still an option for turning voiceover on and off? Also I hear that fingerprint id is also turned on. Is there a way to disable that or is it easy to use? When you get the new phone, can you go into your app store account and get the apps from your old phone to the new one? Rebecca and Zeb email: rilni...@gmail.com twitter: zebs_mom Sent from my IPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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