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So funny hearing you talk about queuing up to get the new iPhone X, but it shows commitment. Honestly, I never have and probably never will I guess, get up that early to get a phone, or anything else for that matter. I ordered mine as soon as possible hoping for an early delivery, but alas I’ll have to wait until the 20th, so be it.<\/p>\n
But I have a tip for people setting up there new iPhone. If you want to migrate from an older model iPhone to a new one, there are 2 basic ways.<\/p>\n
So, how about my tip?<\/p>\n
The big thing is, which apps did I have installed on my old iPhone and want on my new iPhone. If you go into the App Store, go to the update tab and click the ‘your account’ icon. In there you’ll see the option ‘purchased’ and it will give you a list of all the apps you ever installed\/bought.<\/p>\n
But that is too much, it shows you your lifetime purchases, also the ones you already deleted and forgot about.On my current iPhone, I clicked the ‘not on my iPhone’ tab. Ok now you have a list of all the apps not installed anymore, and now the work begins.<\/p>\n
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For every app, yeah I know tedious and boring, swipe left and it will show the hide option, click hide. And on and on and on. But eventually, the list is empty.<\/p>\n
So at this point under the purchased tab you’ll only see the installed apps.<\/p>\n
Ok now the new iPhone, during the setup choose, the setup as new, option, and you’ll get a new clean install of iOS with the basic apps, login to your iCloud account, and all the common stuff start syncing.<\/p>\n
Now to repopulate your new phone, go into the App Store, go to the update tab and click your account icon, now you should see a list of all your purchased apps, but only the ones you didn’t hide. And they should all have that little cloud icon next to it.<\/p>\n
So start banging those cloud icons, the apps will download, and after a while, you have all the apps back as on your old iPhone. And you can arrange them the way you feel, suits you best. I made screenshots of my old iPhone’s screens and will use that as a reference to shuffle the apps around.<\/p>\n
Of course, then you’ll have the fun of logging in and setting up all your apps again, and that will be good for hours and hours of ‘joy’.<\/p>\n
So option 1 if you don’t want the hassle, option 2 if you really want to clean house.<\/p>\n
Allison here. When I first heard Joop’s tip I didn’t really grok exactly what he meant. I’m slow, you know? His tip is quite clever, by hiding everything “not on this phone” before<\/em> you do the clean install, then you know everything showing needs to go back on the newly restored phone. Brilliant! <\/p>\n Sometimes I do want an app back that I would have hidden using this process. I found Apple Support Article HT201322<\/a> that explains how to unhide all of your purchases in one single step over in iTunes on your Mac or PC.<\/p>\n I wrote back to Joop after he sent this article in and bemoaned the fact that if you use an Apple Watch or store other Health data in your iPhone, doing a clean install will erase this data forever. Many a time I’ve had Apple suggest a clean install to solve a problem, but begrudgingly admit that my years of exercise data would be erased! Did you know I’ve walked, run, and cycled a total of 3137.6 miles since I got my Apple Watch? That’s far enough to cross the continental United States! I can’t lose that.<\/p>\n