Re: phone migration

On 2024-07-20 14:36, badgolferman wrote:

Alan wrote:
 

On 2024-07-20 14:23, badgolferman wrote:

Alan wrote:
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Apparently little Arlen  and his best buddy badgolferman have
never heard of Quick Start - yet little Arlen constantly
claims he knows more about Apple than anyone else.
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Maybe you didn’t read the original message. I didn’t migrate the
phone, the IT technician did.
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And he chose one method when he could have chosen another.

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She.  Does that make a difference?

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Yes.
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As has been presented to you already:
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'Choose how you want to transfer your data.
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If you download from iCloud, your apps and data download in the
background so that you can start using your new device right away.
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If you transfer directly from your previous device, you'll need to
wait for the transfer to complete on both devices before you can use
them.'
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<https://support.apple.com/en-ca/102659>
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Note that if you choose the latter, you will wait for everything to
come over directly from your old iPhone, but no downloading is
required.
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Now: how long did the technician have your iPhone?

  I think I was there 15-20 minutes.  That includes authenticating for
the MDM software and transfer of the phone number through VZW portal.
The required Microsoft apps were already preinstalled before I showed
up.
 I mentioned earlier, the transfer method used was direct phone to
phone.  Considering this was a work phone, there was very little for it
to transfer since all mail is on the Microsoft Exchange servers and I
don't have personal apps or pictures on it.

I think you'll find that the reason everything wasn't where you left it was because this wasn't the standard Apple iOS migration, but rather one mediated by your company's MDM software.
When you perform an ordinary iOS migration from an old device to a new one, everything is right where you put it.