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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: phone migration
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:45:56 +1000
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:41:16 +1000, Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 06:44:50 +1000, Your Name <YourName@yourisp.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> On 2024-07-18 15:41:02 +0000, badgolferman said:
>>>  Today my work phone was migrated from an iPhone 11 to an iPhone 14.
>>> Now I carry two iPhone 14 devices, a work and personal phone.
>>>  Ironically a Microsoft program named Entune is used to manage an Apple
>>> device!  This allows the IT Department to remotely manage, disable,
>>> erase the phone.  It also manages certificates related to our PIV
>>> smartcards and email encryption.  The work phone is on the VZW network
>>> whilst my personal phone is on the TMO network.
>>>  I asked the IT technician which phones are easier to migrate, iPhone  
>>> or
>>> Android.  She told me they both have their idiosyncracies, but with the
>>> iPhone she can preload required apps and setup certain parameters
>>> before I ever show up to switch phones over.  With Androids you have to
>>> set up the user first before doing anything.
>>>  Make of that whatever you will.
>>
>> I have only ever tried to migrate an Android phone some time back, and  
>> it was hopeless because there are a lot of user things that simply  
>> could not be copied across (the expert staff in the Samsung store  
>> confirmed they couldn't), which is utterly ridiculous, especially  
>> considering some of the uncopyable user data was for widely used apps!
>
> Mate of mine  has just added another samsung android to his
> fleet of android phones and tablets for his family with my help
> and it was almost effortless. The only extra was moving the
> WhatsApp pictures and texts as well but also very easy.
>
>> In contrast, migrating an iPad was very simple, quick, and all the user  
>> data copied across.

Yes, migrating from my 6S to the SE3 was even easier and
very easy to coninue to use both with the 6S as backup