people having issues with phone to phone transfer?

[powerslave65]

It has to be really close to the other phone or it won’t work until you move it closer. My phone had 360 gigs of stuff on it and a ton of apps and transfer from old phone took 1 hour and 55 minutes. Then another 50 minutes for all the apps. The process is still so slow for this day and age.

 

[Toratek]

Mine transferred ~660 gb from my 15 Pro to my 16 Pro in about 45 minutes, total time about 75 minutes after re-entering security info for cards in wallet and waiting for various apps to download. Both phones were plugged into power. Both running iOS18.

I wonder if transfer from older devices accounts for some of these accounts of excessive time required for phone to phone setups.

As usual, the only thing that didn’t transfer were Bluetooth settings for non Apple devices. I did have to go into settings to change the device name, as the old name copied over as well, which is also normal.

I set battery max charge to 95%- this morning pulled off the charger at 5:30 AM and was astounded to find it still at 90% at 11 AM despite continuing background optimization going on.

 

[thewhitehart]

I had an issue right off the bat with transferring my eSIM from my iPhone 15 to iPhone 16. While the cellular signal disappeared from my 15 and appeared on my 16, the busy wheel spun on the 16 for more than a half hour. It was at that point I cancelled the process and was presented with a menu to restart the iPhone 16, call emergency services, etc. But the menu was frozen. I had to force restart the iPhone 16. Luckily the eSIM did transfer over, so it had a signal when I turned it on again. But I had to start the transfer from the 15 all over again.

I hope in the future these kinks can be worked out. Anyone less tech savvy would've probably called Apple or returned the phone; there's no documentation in the box that actually tells you how to turn the phone off.

 

[ashkir]

I just make sure everything is synced to icloud. I t hen download the apps as I need it all over again. The data transfer is just messages & photos mostly in icloud. Then I spend 5 minutes resetting up my authenticators.

 

[Brad Smith]

Mine completed with the device to device transfer finally, but none of the apps copied over. They are all downloading in the background now. Many apps I still have to log back into.

 

[lwilliams]

It took mone around 6 hours to do the transfer - reminding me why last year I said I would never do that again. From now on, I muct remember to do the restore from iCloud.

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[gpoop]

It took mone around 6 hours to do the transfer - reminding me why last year I said I would never do that again. From now on, I muct remember to do the restore from iCloud.

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Got my phone yesterday. Set it up today. Transfer took 3 hours.