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Resolved iPhone to iPhone USB C data transfer?

I'm about 80 min into it. It says 4 hours left.

15 Pro -> 16 Pro with TB3 cable.
430 GB.
Magsafe (not the new one) charging the 15 Pro.

MrP90 said:
My concern with USB-C to USB-C . Thunderbolt 3. IF I can use MagSafe charging in the event it is longer than a couple hours lol?
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I started my transfer via TB4 cable exactly 90 minutes ago with an estimate of 3 hours. Currently the estimate is... 3 hours. This is about the same experience I remember from the last couple of years transferring phone-to-phone wirelessly.
 
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swinginfriar said:
I started my transfer via TB4 cable exactly 90 minutes ago with an estimate of 3 hours. Currently the estimate is... 3 hours. This is about the same experience I remember from the last couple of years transferring phone-to-phone wirelessly.
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How much data?
 
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I'm going 14PM to 16PM with about 115GB to transfer. Using direct phone to phone wirelessly, it started off at 11 hours estimated. I am over 1.5 hours in and still saying 6 hours to go with progress mark at maybe the 40% position. This is my third time using this method and it has never been this slow.
 
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signde said:
I'm going 14PM to 16PM with about 115GB to transfer. Using direct phone to phone wirelessly, it started off at 11 hours estimated. I am over 1.5 hours in and still saying 6 hours to go with progress mark at maybe the 40% position. This is my third time using this method and it has never been this slow.
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Actually I'll restore from iCloud backup lol
 
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4sallypat said:
Going to try Lightning (14+) to USB-C (16 Pro) today using the Apple cable that came with my Apple 20W charger....
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Did the same today. Took about an hour (iPhone 14 Pro Max 256GB [200GB] used) to 16 pro max 256GB. I think it transferred about the same over the cable as the cloud backup, 58GB. The rest is downloading now.
 
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Just FYI, not all "USB-C" cables support USB speeds greater than USB 2.0 unless specifically mentioned.

Ex: Apple charger cables for 2016 MacBook Pro.

The cable that came with the 16 Pro Max is called a "charge cable" on the specs and the store mentions only "USB 2 rates" for those charge cables as well.

So if you're wondering why the direct transfer is slow, this is likely the reason (unless your original device only supports those speeds anyways).
 
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This really shows the upgrade process could use some work. I realize we're edge cases, people using more storage.

Most of my data is music and photos/videos. I could do without those until a full sync overnight or something.

It would be great to have access to phone, contacts, camera, maps, and latest messages and maybe a few prioritized apps (banking & AppleCard?). Possibly certain playlists or albums, finish the rest later.
 
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twanj said:
This really shows the upgrade process could use some work. I realize we're edge cases, people using more storage.

Most of my data is music and photos/videos. I could do without those until a full sync overnight or something.

It would be great to have access to phone, contacts, camera, maps, and latest messages and maybe a few prioritized apps (banking & AppleCard?). Possibly certain playlists or albums, finish the rest later.
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You get those options when doing a restore from iCloud backup... Yeah seems like this could be a little more refined lol
 
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swinginfriar said:
I started my transfer via TB4 cable exactly 90 minutes ago with an estimate of 3 hours. Currently the estimate is... 3 hours. This is about the same experience I remember from the last couple of years transferring phone-to-phone wirelessly.
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Ended up speeding up a lot at the end and finished in about 3.5 hours.
 
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I don't on any MagSafe iPhone charging pucks. Should I not even try the 15PM-16PM TB4 cable transfer?
 
15 Pro Max -> 16 Pro Max. Roughly 630GB (mostly photos).

Sounds like I'll just do the iCloud backup restore so my phone is usable in the short term and let it pull down the rest of the data over interwebs. The fact that you can prioritize which apps get re-downloaded will make that less painful than otherwise.
 
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15 pro -> 16 pro

Currently saying 5 hours with TS3 cable. I think iCloud back up would have been faster. Has anyone tried a transfer with the office T4 cable from apple? **also on ios 18.1 PB**
 
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I transferred 238gb from iPhone 15 PM to iPhone 16 PM using the Apple Thunderbolt 3 cable. It took 1 hour and 15 minutes. I did put both phones on an ice block to help cool them. It took two attempts. First time, I got an error half way through and it did not recover. Restarted both phones and tried again.
 
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What type of cable comes with the 16 PM? I would assume that it is a USB and not TB cable?
 
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Theminnesotaoasis said:
I transferred 238gb from iPhone 15 PM to iPhone 16 PM using the Apple Thunderbolt 3 cable. It took 1 hour and 15 minutes. I did put both phones on an ice block to help cool them. It took two attempts. First time, I got an error half way through and it did not recover. Restarted both phones and tried again.
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Pretty quick!

I also got an error and a reboot my first try.
 
twanj said:
This really shows the upgrade process could use some work. I realize we're edge cases, people using more storage.
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The thing though… is we’re not edge cases. Half of the Pro max has over 500 GB in storage, which means at some point the users will have to transfer that data between phones.
Apple makes it much more complicated to pick the right transfer option for people with more than 128 GB of data.
 
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