After at least 10 iPhones & tons of configuration changes, I’m debating wiping my new 15 Pro & starting from scratch. I’d take screen shots of all my apps & install them one by one. My passwords would still be in keychain, so I won’t be really staring from nothing.
I’m just wokdering if I’m missing out on certain features because of a random setting decision I made with my iPhone Xs that has carried forward multiple times.
Anyone truly start fresh with a new phone? Or am I just creating unnecessary work for myself?
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I’m planning to the next time I get a new phone. When I first set up my phone years ago I was coming from Android and I turned everything Apple off. I’ve fixed a lot of it but I’d like to see what I’ve been missing if anything.
Why create extra work for yourself?
I start fresh every time I get a new phone every ~4-5 years gets rid of the random crap
You’re probably creating unnecessary stress. I don’t see the benefit.
I’ve done it and it saved me a lot of headache. I had so many apps I wasn’t even using and it was very nice to have a nice and clean app layout
I think you’re just overthinking it yes.
Yes OP is overthinking it. The headache in starting fresh isn’t worth it to me.
Yes - I had to the other week when I bought my 15 pro
My 14 plus had a bug in the messaging data - no one could figure out why my messages were having such issues
Verizon sent me a new phone - and I set it up from back up like normal- and within a day - I was having the same exact issues again - Apple wiped both phones , Verizon wiped the network settings / gave me new eSIM multiple times , and Still NOTHING FIXED IT
When I was shopping at Apple for a 15 pro case (my 15 pro was getting delivered next morning) - an Apple employee asked to help me and we just started talking and he knew right away what my issue was
Reason being even the new phone having the same issue was it was a bug and when I would transfer the backup to the new phone , the bug would follow
So he recommended me to start as new on 15 pro - so I set it up as new - logged into my iCloud after - and all my stuff came back
Had to re download every app I wanted again , but it was a breeze as iCloud remember all the info / logins etc - so it took only a few mins
So now I had all my stuff back , except messages which I didn’t care (especially being there was a bug in the message data) and my problem has been solved- no issues with the texting now - only thing that worked
Yup. Had a lot of issues with notifications. Started fresh this time and all was solved.
There has only been one time ever that I did not start fresh. That was when I wanted to transfer an app that still worked but was no longer available in the App Store. Usually I start fresh and download apps as I need them. There have been plenty of apps that I never needed again.