So the new phone couldn't get updated to the beta before transferring the data? What way did you use? Device to device lying next to another?
Why not updating the new phone to 18.1 first if this doesn't work? You can do it via IPSW from a Mac, when you don't want to login to your account yet to see the update. But there is a public beta now to. Maybe that update works without being logged in.
I think you are missing the point of the question or how the process works.
Let me lay it out. The 16 Pro’s arriving tomorrow with have 18.0 on it out of the box. My phone I’m trading in is running 18.1 and my only backup was created under 18.1 (b4). In a non beta environment, if the back up is created in a newer version of iOS than what’s on the new phone, it will prompt that it has to update when you begin the transfer from old to new. It will then update and then you can transfer. This takes time in the store and it is what it is.
However, the “newer” OS on the old phone is beta. Normally (I think), the new phone can’t offer to update to a beta. If this were true, the only way to get it done would be to set up the new phone as a new device, enroll in beta and update it. Then wipe it clean and select new phone replacing old. This would take a crap load of time in the store and is a PIA.
I asked the “geniuses” if they could just plug the new phone into a Mac and load 18.1. “We don’t even have the betas” was their response.
What they didn’t know is what’s in this thread and that Apple is supposedly enabling 18.1 as an upgrade if necessary to move from old phone to new.
Make sense? BTW, I’ve done nothing, this is all homework for tomorrow morning.
