Let me tell you that this has been a nightmarish couple hours…
Because these phones are so old, they can’t be updated and thus can’t be bluetoothed and synced so now it’s up to me to do all this. I am hearing this will be a multi-day process with backing up. I don’t believe it…
Now I wish I didn’t do this… It will be worth it though
Only other option is to go to the apple store. Rather not
Speaking as a bona fide dinosaur. I have now tried to enable e-transfers on my phone, I have not had a chance to test it out. The decision was made when I did a market, made $19 because the other $30 in possible sales had no cash.
I guess there IS a reason the dinosaurs disappeared.
I have no problem getting someone else to do it for me IF Absolutely Necessary. I lucked out years ago with my phone, the pleasant young man at Walmart was very nice about it.
To get this e-transfer business set up, I went to the bank. To sign in from my phone instead of the computer, it sent a code to my phone. My phone does not play nice, and when we go back to enter it, I’ve been booted out of the site. I don’t play those games, he told me how to set it up on the computer at home, thus no test yet in real life.
Yup, both of those would have been able to be on the same iOS. These cannot.
Mine, bc it’s too old. 13.3.2 was the closest I could get to 18… lol
My Son’s, bc there wasn’t enough space
My Wife’s, bc there wasn’t enough space…
IDK what these guys were talking about. Mine and my wife’s are half backed up after an hour (128G each). My son’s (32G - lol) is already done. I reset the new phone and it’s syncing now off of iCloud.
Verizon store said 7 hours each. This was a corporate store too, which usually goes better.
We have gigabit so maybe that’s why it’s going so quickly…
Will report back when done and hopefully working as expected.
These new iPhones are bricks… Heavy and bigger. Didn’t get a plus either.
I’m not on iPhones, but running into the same problem. Upgraded my POS phone (cost $20; that should give you an idea) to a fairly cheap Samsung. It’s great in many ways, much faster, etc., but it’s just enough bigger that I’m going to have to change my set up for scanning at booksales. With my previous phones, I Velcroed my scanner to the back of the phone, and worked one-handed; the new phone is enough bigger that when I did this once, the extra strain set off my tendonitis. It no longer fits comfortably in the hand.
Why do they keep thinking that we only want BIGGER? At this rate, in a couple of more upgrades, it will be as big as the first tablet that we bought!
I had no choice. I would have kept the 6, even if I was getting a free 16 if Apple still supported it.
Lots of Apps I have stopped working awhile ago bc Apple froze the updates on the 6 at 13.something.something…
I couldn’t even actually get the trade in deal on my 6 because their system didn’t recognize it. We even tried doing the deal from my phone in the Verizon App and that got rejected too.
I have to go back within 30 days with all 3 phones and hand them over and at that time there’s some form they have to fill out so I can get the deal that was offered to me.
I have everything set up and signed back in. Lost the home button which I really liked but otherwise this thing is amazing. Especially the screen and camera.
Sucks having to pay the taxes on $3,000 worth of phones. Wasn’t expecting that. lol
Guess it’s like winning a prize on Wheel of Fortune.
We will be getting a cell phone (umm, maybe this month?) only because an increasing number of functions are no longer possible with a land line. I can’t set up a Stripe merchant account without a cell phone. My Square free website was canceled because I don’t have a cell phone. Can’t get a Google account or email without a cell phone. This list goes on.
Neither of us wants a cell phone, but we feel we’re being forced especially with my business. We have no interest in texting, we have no desire to stream anything on a tiny screen, and we certainly don’t want to be tracked with an electronic device.
Regardless, I’ve done gobs of research and narrowed it down to 2 providers. I need a little more research to choose a phone.
Pretty much everything my almost 80 year old wife said about 10 years or so ago when she ditched her last flip phone.
At that point she needed to learn how to do conference calls and video chats for Franchise Meetings for the store. Now she needs Whatsapp in order to have a secure way to communicate with our son in Georgia (the country, not the state). Apparently the State Department has issues with unsecured conversations, even with family members. Things are dicey enough he just asked his sister to set it up as well “just in case.”
At this point she spends more time on Facebook than I do which takes a LOT of effort.
You are about to go down a rabbit hole with little chance of recovery…
Or @meredithbead could do what my mother does, which is turn her phone off to charge, forget about it for days at a time, and only turn it back on to call her kids to complain that we never call her, which just goes to show that she doesn’t check her missed calls or voicemails when she turns it back on either.
Which completely defeats needing the phone for business purposes which is what trapped my wife.
She and our son work together at the store every day (almost) and most of their communication is by text messages. He is up front dealing with problems and she is in the back unpacking and labeling inventory (and dealing with her ‘groupies’ that want to know how she is doing since the crash).
Personally, I’ve had a cell phone since the late '70’s because my boss wanted to be able to reach his sales force to see if we were actually working when we were out of the office (for good reasons in some cases ). I wish I still had the first one – I could use a doorstop…
I have now tried to enable e-transfers on my phone, I have not had a chance to test it out. The decision was made when I did a market, made $19 because the other $30 in possible sales had no cash.
). I wish I still had the first one – I could use a doorstop…