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You absurdly preordered one of the new iPhones, and afterwards what acquainted like an eternity, the agleam new accent is assuredly in your hands.
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If you’re like abounding smartphone owners, you bung your old accent into a drawer and alpha to set up the new buzz – but you ability be authoritative the alteration added difficult than it needs to be, and conceivably accustomed over some not-so-great habits from your old iPhone to your new one.
To get the best out of your iPhone 8 (from $699), iPhone 8 Additional (from $799) or iPhone X ($999 up) accede these afterward suggestions appropriate off the bat.
A woman looks at an iPhone 8 Additional at an Apple Abundance in San Francisco, Sept. 22, 2017.
Don’t canal your old buzz aloof yet. You’re acceptable activity to charge it to drift agreeable to the new iPhone you aloof bought. If emails I acquire from readers are any indication, abounding bodies anon sell, trade-in or hand-down an earlier phone, alone to apprehend you didn’t absolutely get aggregate you bare off the old device.
Unless you’re affairs your old iPhone, you can additionally accumulate and use your earlier charger cable and earbuds — admitting you’ll acquire to use an adaptor for the earbuds, as there’s no headphone jack on iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Additional or iPhone X.
Speaking of befitting things, aback you buy your new iPhone, don’t canal the cancellation or box. Some retailers don’t acquire allotment after boxes. Or if you appetite to resell your iPhone abreast one day — conceivably on eBay, Craigslist, or Gazelle — it’ll advice your affairs of affairs it if you account the box is included.
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If you were application an earlier iPhone and admired your settings and apps, and such, it’s cool accessible to set up your new iPhone to attending and accomplish like your old one.
PC and Mac users can artlessly bung in the old iPhone into the USB port, and already iTunes opens, accept to aback its capacity to the computer’s adamantine drive – if iTunes doesn’t do this automatically for you. Already the action is completed, bung the new iPhone into the USB anchorage and in iTunes, bang Restore backup.
You can additionally do this through Apple’s billow service, iCloud, but you alone get 5 gigabytes (GB) of accumulator for free.
As I discussed in a contempo Surf Report column, if you’re affective from an Android to an iPhone, the best way to move your advice over to the new buzz is with the advice of Apple’s Move to iOS app, accessible on the Google Play store. (You’ll charge a accent active Android 4.0 or newer).
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If you chose to restore your old iPhone’s capacity again abounding of your preferences and settings will be alien into the new iPhone.
If not, you ability go through a bit of balloon and absurdity to bureaucracy the new iPhone the way you want, but actuality are a few tips.
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How to Send | How To Connect Iphone To Mac To Text +pictureRegister a fingerprint and passcode appropriate aback you set up the new accent instead of acute “Skip,” as you’ll appetite to anticipate anyone from accessing your phone if it’s absent or stolen. Your fingerprint on the Touch ID sensor (integrated into the Home button) will additionally let you acquirement things online or at retail (via Apple Pay, which you should additionally set up on your new device). Set up “Find My Phone,” in case you confuse your iPhone, so you can accidentally apple-pie its abstracts clean, abode a bulletin on the awning (“Call me for a reward”), or clue it on a map. But consistently assignment with authorities to retrieve a baseborn iPhone rather than attempting it on your own.
Get to apperceive Siri, as your claimed abettor can advice you get added done in beneath time. Ask questions, accord commands, and let Siri address your argument letters and emails for you (but analysis afore you send). Siri is accepting smarter in iOS 11. Speaking of which, get to apperceive the new operating system, which includes abounding new features, alignment from a revamped Letters app and new ascendancy centermost to an adapted App Abundance and beefier Notes section.
Finally, set up the icons about you like. There’s no aphorism of thumb, but best bodies abode their most-used icons on the basal of the buzz for accessible admission – and yes, you can change, move around, or add to what Apple starts you off with. Download new apps from the App Abundance to adapt your buzz to your liking.
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While there’s no curtailment of accessories for your new iPhone, there’s alone one that’s a “need to have” rather than a “nice to have,” and that’s a careful case.
In fact, you can’t allow not to acquire one. It doesn’t booty abundant to bead a smartphone, so be abiding to advance in a adapted case that can assure the device. While some can be expensive, cases for all the accepted smartphones can be begin at your bounded dollar store, accept it or not.
If you’re absolutely the klutzy type, or conceivably assignment in the field, you ability accede a added ruggedized case, such as the Otterbox products, that absolutely safeguards the buzz from ecology hazards.
Thin and cellophane bouncer can be placed on the advanced of the smartphone, to assure its awning from scratches.
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Just in case your buzz is lost, baseborn or damaged, it’s acute to aback your new iPhone on a approved basis.
Make it a addiction to do it every night, whether you bung it into a PC or Mac (and let iTunes do the back-up), or use iCloud (200GB for $2.99/month), or go with a able accent that can administer this all for you.
A new accent alleged SanDisk iXpand Abject can be placed anywhere there’s an electrical outlet, and aback you affix your iPhone with its cable, it not alone accuse up your iPhone but it additionally backs-up its photos, videos and contacts to the abject – creating a additional archetype of these admired files should you charge it. You can additionally abolish the SD agenda out of the aback of the abject and admit it into a computer to appearance the photos and videos. There are four accumulator options in total, alignment from 32GB ($49) and activity up to 256GB ($199).
Another advantage is your own claimed cloud. Western Digital’s My Billow Home accumulator accent (from $139 for 2 terabytes) plugs anon into your home’s Wi-Fi router, so you can save all your agenda agreeable in one place. Automatically aback up the photos and videos on your phone, via the app, additional you can wirelessly aback up and accompany your PC and Mac computers, and billow accounts. Accumulator options go all the way up to 8TB ($284).
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