Re: new iphone

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:47:49 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :

As for the data transfer, did all your apps come over in the EXACT same
place on your homescreen that they were on the old phone (as mine did after
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Or did you have to manually re-organize your homescreen all over again?
 

 As far as I could tell when doing the transfer, everything seemed to be in
place. I think she had to login again to certain apps, put the credit card
CVV codes in again, redo Face ID, establish Bluetooth connections. It
really was quite seamless of a transfer process.

Yeah, I agree nowadays with both iOS & Android being mature platforms, the
"cloning" of the old phone to the new phone is virtually seamless for us.
I devised a clever trick that only I use (as far as I'm aware) to make it
even easier for those with portable memory slots, which is to quick format
every sd card to the same name (I use 0000-0001, but that doesn't matter).
Remember I said T-Mobile gave me 2 replacements for my original Galaxy
A32-5G? Well, when you clone them, the sd card isn't re-formatted, right?
So if you put, oh, say, your OSM offline maps on your sd card in, oh, say
 \storage\A1B1-C1D1\maps\osm\osm.dat
When a less-clever person moves the sd card to a new phone, it ends up as
 \storage\A2B2-C2D2\maps\osm\osm.dat
Which doesn't work in the new phone because the filespec is now wrong.
You'd have to fix *every app* to change the filespec from one to the other.
But if you format all the sd cards with the same name, you win big time.
That's why they call it "portable memory" after all, which means you can
pop it out of one phone and pop it into another phone & it just works.
What is really neat is eventually, after two years of using the 64GB sdcard
on those free T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy A32-5G phones, I bumped it to 128GB.
Since I formatted the new 128GB sdcard to the same "volume name" as the
original, the phone had no idea that it was a different sd card altogether.
Everything "just worked".
It was beautiful.
Since I received a handful of these free T-Mobile phones, I picked up off
of Amazon Vine, for free, three 128GB sd cards, all of which I formatted to
the same volume name (the original default names are meaningless anyway).
1. For the 3 sdcards, I formatted each on Windows to the same volume name
2. On Windows I copied the old 64GB sdcard data to the new 128GB card
3. And I popped in the new (twice the size!) sdcard into each old phone
It just worked!
Ain't that beautiful!
It's too bad Apple hates us because there is no way Apple would ever allow
something as beautiful as portable exist to happen on an iPhone or iPad.
Apple's entire marketing strategy is to fuck the customer first, and then
watch the customer squirm to desperately try to replace what Apple broke.
a. The Apple customer has to buy a new phone to double the memory
   (Meanwhile, Android customers double the memory for about $10.)
b. Or, the Apple customer has to purchase 64GB of "cloud memory"    (Meanwhile, Android customers have no need for expensive cloud memory.)
c. The Apple customer needs to use cloning tools to bring over app data
   (Well, at least these cloning tools pretty much work well on both.)
Since I use both platforms all day, every day, I see the tremendously huge
difference between the two platforms - which - almost nobody understands.
You can't appreciate the difference until you use both platforms regularly.
But, other than for "portable data", the cloning process is mature on both.