Entrepreneur & Product Manager - looking for new opportunities. Recently moved to Mountain View CA.
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As well as stuff like:
- not losing any passkeys for sites/apps
- maintaining my signal and other encrypted services
- keeping my messages logs
- not losing any files (books for example) I’ve downloaded directly to my phone
I have something like 300 apps on my phone so will review them but want to migrate them to the new phone and then edit which I continue to use
Does anyone have a checklist for migrating phones these days?
I’ve had an iPhone 11 (pro max) since around when it launched. Need to update it and my wife’s soon. Will stay with an iPhone but likely also switching carriers.
Keeping the same phone number I know is not hard. But I’m worried about missing something and creating issues for me in the future.
- ensuring I don’t lose any of my photos or my usage logs for apps like podcasts (decades of data on which episodes I’ve heard)
I have long kept such a list in Google Maps (via their "saved" locations feature - I haven't been consistent in how I have categorized such places - so its a bit of a mess - but I have 100's of places around the world saved in that way - in the hope that I'm reminded to check them out when nearby (assuming it is still there when I am there)
But I'd love to have an alternative - that is part of an app I already use NOT something I have to remember to check / keep updated
it is possible that in the mobile app there is a way to save a place but I wish it also existed in the web browser implementation as well.
Use case - just read about a small garden in NYC in the East Village that has a treehouse and looks like an amazing little oasis in the urban fabric of the city - a place I haven't seen in any of my (many) past visits. So I wanted to save it while I was thinking about it as a place to visit in the future in the hope that on a future visit I'll be reminded
the challenge with migrating away from Google (which has been a slow process) is that many of the alternatives out there while better than Google in many ways get some really basic stuff wrong or just don't even have it.
Today's example - Apple Maps which I greatly prefer to Google maps for directions (their driving directions in car are night and day better than Google's)
Does not, it seems, have an easy way to save a place for future reference at least not one that I see intuitively via web
filing taxes is never all that fun but this year in particular it is just icky - from the many changes (that don't actually have much positive impact for most regular or even somewhat well off Americans) to the ick factor of the upsell to the current president branded "accounts" for kids.
(and my child falls into the category of "doesn't actually get anything" but could get that account - I declined it as the minimal tax savings for my child aren't worth having anything with that name on it
Apparently to create a new Google account (which I need to do to access a google group that I was added to with an email that isn’t associated with any google account) you have to have a cell phone capable of sending sms messages.
That I do isn’t an issue - but that so much is then gated and dependent on you having access to a cell phone seems problematic. Yes most people today have one but not everyone (my child for example though a tween does not have a phone and won’t for a many years)
so clearly somewhere when the podcast was downloaded to my device an ad insertion was created that used my device's IP address/geolocation to estimate where I was at the time (perhaps when I was conntected via wifi to a cafe or my hotel)
as a user I don't know what exactly was used - and there isn't any easy way for me to know - and arguably this is fairly minor but such systems also almost certainly have a pretty good guess of not just that I'm a parent but likely my child's school schedule