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Are you going to order the new iPhone 15?


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Oh no!. Your battery is at 19%! Are you going to be able to make it through the night?

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Don’t worry. 5w charger will charge it to 100% by the time iPhone 16 is released
 
For those of you that are having their 15 Pro delivered tomorrow….how much does the UPS tracking say that it weighs?

I ordered through Verizon and the weight listed on the tracking info is only 1lb. I could have sworn that phones with the packaging weighed more than just one pound.
 
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For those of you that are having their 15 Pro delivered tomorrow….how much does the UPS tracking say that it weighs?

I ordered through Verizon and the weight listed on the tracking info is only 1lb. I could have sworn that phones with the packaging weighed more than just one pound.
iPhone 15 Pro says .4kgs and my other regular iPhone 15 says 1lb

Same difference I think it’s just bc the regular iPhones were here already so they were weighed in lbs vs the metric from china
 
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I am going to pray that you don’t see the dreaded you can’t use this backup message. But if you do, it’s not the end of the world.
Here’s what I would suggest-
First check out tonight when your last backup is done. Is it tonight? If so AND the phone comes with 17.01, then you won’t have any problems.
The real only problem that could mess up the build of the new phone is if your old phone is newer than the new one in its IOS version.
The year that Apple did this to us, I just stopped and got the backup to be the same version. Then everything will work fine.

Last year I think was the first year that during the Quick Setup process if your phone was not on a compatible version to restore from the backup the phone actually offered to update itself first and then restart the Quick Setup process so that it could restore from the Backup in iCloud.

Worst case follow these instructions for situation 3 here - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203434
 
I have a feeling this should be OK, because Apple always drops a bug fix release right around go-live. I think where you can get (and I have gotten) into trouble is if you install a fresh 17.1 beta (if that existed yet) on your old phone, and the new one hadn’t been enrolled into the beta, a beta installed, etc.
Normally that’s correct. But one year Apple made it really hard. Instead of having the update available for you to download, they had already installed it on the phone. So everyone was coming to the new phone with a iOS version that was out of sink with the new iPhone. It took some effort to get it back in sync. As I mentioned in my post earlier it took me about two hours.
 
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Last year I think was the first year that during the Quick Setup process if your phone was not on a compatible version to restore from the backup the phone actually offered to update itself first and then restart the Quick Setup process so that it could restore from the Backup in iCloud.

Worst case follow these instructions for situation 3 here - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203434
True! It’s part of the iOS 16 update.
 
Yes. The reason I was asking was because I screwed up by updating to 17.0.1 today without thinking. I was hoping it wasn’t pre-installed with 17.0 so I didn’t have to update before restoring. If it’s pre-installed with 17.0.1 it’ll be even better since I can just update after a restore.
I think the only issue you'll have is if you are on the beta as the new phone will have to be running the beta before you can restore from backup.

Almost certainly they shipped with 17.0 but the phone will just update to 17.0.1 during the restore process if it needs to. Apple gets better and better with the setup/restore process every year and if I remember correctly when I worked seasonal at Apple in 'The Before Times' one of the phones shipped without updated software and they would just quickly update and then continue with the restore process during setup. Smooth as silk. Slick as snot. In a gif.

Thinking back on that, we had a Frankenstein dongle we'd use so we could connect two phones together to transfer data directly if a customer didn't use iCloud. I'm guessing that will be much easier this year since you can probably just use a USB-C to Lightening cable.
 
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