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If you used Quick Setup, most of your apps should be up to date already, so this will be, er, quick.ĭon’t forget you can have your apps auto-update by flipping the Updates switch in Settings > App Store > App Updates. Or, you can manually update your apps and just check out the “What’s New” release notes to see what changed. You’ll find an updates section beneath all your account info, and you can get the updates here. To check for app updates, launch the App Store app, then tap your account icon in the upper right. Hit up the App Store first-you’ll want the latest versions of all of your apps. Great, now you should be on your home screen on your new iPhone, at last. Your Wallet history will still be there, but you’ll have to re-enter any payment cards you’d like to use with Apple Pay. (For more on Apple Pay, check out our If you already had Apple Pay on your old iPhone, you’ll notice that your credit cards have disappeared on your new iPhone. If you’re new to Apple Pay, just follow the instructions within Wallet to add a credit card or two. Since you need to have Face ID enabled in order to use Apple Pay, this would be a good time to jump into Apple’s Wallet app to set that up. And it isn’t accessible by other apps, just as other apps weren’t able to access your fingerprints with Touch ID.

No photos of your face nor any other biometric data ever leave your phone-Apple doesn’t get any of that. Worried about your privacy with Face ID? Don’t be. Setting up Face ID is a lot faster than Touch ID.
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If anything goes really wrong during your setup process, you’ll be glad you did! But your user data and settings get transferred over, and that’s the important part.Īs fast and easy as this is, we still recommend backing up your phone as described in number 1 above. But your new phone has to actually re-download apps, because every time you download an app from the App Store, your phone actually grabs a unique version specifically optimized for that iPhone model. Initially, your phone will show placeholders for your apps, all arranged and stuffed into folders exactly as on your old iPhone. You don’t want to have to wait through a big update process once you have your iPhone 12 in hand.Īfter you finish setting up your phone this way, you’ll want to give it a little while to re-download all your apps. IOS 14) for some reason, you might want to update right away. But it requires iOS 11 or newer, so if for some reason you’ve gone years without updating your iPhone to at least Setting up your phone this way transfers over most of your settings, the arrangement of your home screen, and more. It’ll even prompt you to update your old iPhone’s backup if it hasn’t been backed up in awhile. You’ll go through the rest of the setup process, like enabling Face ID, and then your phone will be ready to go, set up just like your old iPhone.
