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WesDym Sep 21, 2025

@paulfoerster That's not Chinese, but Japanese. There's plenty of kanji (which are also Chinese characters, but not always the same), but the bulk of this is kana (both hirigana and katakana), which are unique to Japanese.

Not that that helps you, of course.

@wesdym Ok, I don't know about that.

Still, showing a readme in an Asian language, or any language different from the iPhone, is plain wrong.

HP - Morepower Sep 21, 2025

@paulfoerster Das ist die neu eingeführte Sprachlernfunktion. So lernst Du schneller fremde Sprachen!

@hpower Ah ja. Dann entschuldige bitte mein Unwissen.

HP - Morepower Sep 21, 2025

@paulfoerster Release Notes lesen! Seite 483 mitte

@hpower Mist! Ich habe nur bis Seite 482 gelesen. Danach war mir das zu spanisch vorgekommen.

HP - Morepower Sep 21, 2025

@paulfoerster tstststs

@hpower Ich geb's zu. Ich bin ein fauler Sack. 😝

𝗣𝗠𝗝 ⚫Sep 21, 2025

@hpower @paulfoerster

wird in 10 jahren eh weltsprache sein 🙈 😅

I've just updated our iPhones (from 15 to 17), watches (from 7 to 11), and AirPod Pros (from 2 to 3)...and, unusually for Apple, it's been a complete nightmare 🤬

I update our phones every two years and two years ago (from 13 to 15) it was a walk in the park...not this year 🤬

I did the usual transfer "thing" but then had to login to all the apps which had seamlessly transferred two years ago 🤷

@TCMuffin Upgrading iOS has never been a problem here. Same for Apple Watch from Series 4 onwards. The first Apple Watches up to, and including Series 3, have always been a pain in the ass because they either needed repeated tries or took ages to complete. (1/3)

I never do the “usual transfer thing”. I don’t trust that procedure. I backup my old devices to the Mac and do an iOS upgrade using the Mac. If I get a new iPhone, I backup the old one to the Mac, setup the new iPhone and restore it from that backup. (2/3)

I’ve seen iOS upgrades being incomplete or older when using OTA updates. I don’t trust that procedure. I always download the full iOS to the Mac. Yes, it’s 11 GB now instead of “only" about 5 GB when doing an OTA update. But for me, it's worth it. I never had any issues that way. (3/3)

I wondered if running iOS 26 developer beta on our iPhone Pro 15s was buggering up the transfers 🫣

The most annoying part is that some apps won’t let me sign in on the new phones, e.g. Google Drive, and won’t let me uninstall and reinstall the app either 🤬

I only “jumped ship” to a MacBook Pro in April 2024, so your approach wasn’t possible for me until now, but this sounds like a good plan to try, so thank you 🙏

@TCMuffin If you want to do it that way, make sure, your iPhone backups are encrypted. This will ensure that passwords are backed up too. If you don’t do that, then you’ll have to reenter every password used in any app again. 🤣

Also, if you want to move to a new watch but keep the current phone, unpair the old one, pair the new one and restore the backup created by the unpairing process. (1/3)

If you want to also move a watch from an old to a new iPhone, unpair it, backup the iPhone with the Mac. This will include the watch backup into the iPhone backup, which is important. Then setup and restore the new iPhone, pair the new watch and restore the new watch backup included in the iPhone backup. (2/3)

Lastly, if all works properly, you can erase an old iPhone and make sure it disappears from your device list. Otherwise, you will still have a lock on it and nobody but yourself can reactive it. Not good for the recipient, if you want to give it away. 🤣

This has always worked for me. (3/3)

Thank you again...we always trade-in our old devices, so I always do a full wipe before sending them off.

Not so much for reasons of reducing costs as much as ensuring they're recycled.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph3ecf67d29/ios

@TCMuffin In that case, backup to the Mac before sending in. Then restore from that backup. It also makes you independent of the Cloud availability and saves iCloud space.

Just out of curiosity, I've checked and you can backup your iPhone to a Windows PC...

Oh and an eSIM survives a factory reset...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253176559?sortBy=rank

@TCMuffin Yes, you can connect it to Windows. But since I hate Windows, I don’t have it. 😝

Yes, you'd have to remove the eSIM configuration *before* wiping the iPhone. Also note, that you only disable the device from using the contract. The contract itself will continue to run until you cancel it with your provider.

Here you can move that contract from one device to another. But that depends on how your provider handles that. This is nothing that is handled by Apple.

I'd already transferred my eSIM from my old phone to the new one which was why I wondered if the eSIM would survive a factory reset.

if not, I would have transferred my eSIM back to my old phone whilst I was resting my new one.

Really helpful…thank you 🙏