Records of your purchased apps and app data-no apps will download automatically, but you can go into App Store > Profile > Purchased to restore them on an app-by-app basis.iCloud email (other accounts you'll have to manually re-add in the Settings app).Photos (either the last 1000 or, if you have iCloud Photo Library enabled, your entire library).I recommend you wait a couple weeks and learn what you can on your own so that when you have this free session you will be more informed and the information may mean more to you.When you log in with your iCloud account when setting up as new, this is what you retain: You will also be contacted by Apple support inviting you to a one on one session to introduce you to two features of this new phone that may be of most interest to you. After that you can have it take command and restore all your settings from your old iPhone. Once factory settings are restore, the unit's operating system needs to be updated to the current (latest) version. Then go to the reset setting and clear the phone to factory settings. I refer you to my comments above posted on Jan 28, 2022. I had the same experience of it seeming to be on a loop cycle. Battery is 100% as well, infact I connected charger also, still no luck.Īpple's iPhone activation process often gets hung up - perhaps when we inadvertently miss a step or think we have done something wrong. I hope this time my activation goes smoothly. Overall I felt the activating Iphone13 user experience is really poor.

My another request is, if the updating or any issue, Iphone can show an error message instead of showing as 'Installing now' for hours hours. I have a very good wifi connection, I have been using other devices just fine with my wifi. Interesting thing is, Iphone is keep on trying to install the new IOS version, not sure why this will take more than an hour (Samsung hardly takes 10 minutes). Lets hope without data transfer it will work this time. First I tried with Data transfer assuming that it works smoothly like Samsung device, unfortunately Iphone13 not worked at all. I know all the required setting like WiFi every looks good. This is seems very bad user experience, since activating a new phone taking more than 12 hours, I tried twice so far. I had the similar issue, my iphone13 brand new phone setup took 12 hours, still not completed.

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