Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.in-chemnitz.de!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.mobile.ipad Subject: Re: phone migration Date: 21 Jul 2024 04:02:22 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net XOF6z7BkEC8xc2EhPlEH+wRFiRSf/8X2B1QLaFLLUf32HPh2zU Cancel-Lock: sha1:F6ifGKf9vaCMmMA/liG+zHJZM0k= sha256:8wM6tJEfmvV4Ay7H/n4WQV6vkBt5TJgL91HUY5/6Utk= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Bytes: 4231 On 2024-07-21, Alan wrote: > On 2024-07-20 14:36, badgolferman wrote: >> Alan wrote: >>> On 2024-07-20 14:23, badgolferman wrote: >>>> Alan wrote: >>>> >>>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> Maybe you didn’t read the original message. I didn’t migrate the >>>>>> phone, the IT technician did. >>>>> >>>>> And he chose one method when he could have chosen another. >>>> >>>> She. Does that make a difference? >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>> As has been presented to you already: >>> >>> 'Choose how you want to transfer your data. >>> >>> If you download from iCloud, your apps and data download in the >>> background so that you can start using your new device right away. >>> >>> 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.' >>> >>> >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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. Nah. He'll just claim "ignorance" and pretend Arlen is right. > When you perform an ordinary iOS migration from an old device to a new > one, everything is right where you put it. Everyone but Arlen and badgolferman knows this from first-hand experience. But they'll never acknowledge or admit this reality, because: troll. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR