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So that US$1000 sticker shock didn’t put you off from affairs the buzz that Apple calls ‘the future’, did it? We don’t accusation you – we bought the iPhone X, too. I apperceive you appetite to dive appropriate in the moment you get the box in your hands, but apathetic your roll! We accept a little bureaucracy admonition you’re activity to appetite to pay absorption to. Sure, it seems like a annoyance appropriate now, but this being is activity to save you time and annoyance later.
That’s right, you’re activity to appetite to aback up your old iPhone after you accept your new iPhone X in hand, so the backup is as abreast as it can possibly be. You can aback up via iCloud or iTunes:
For an iTunes backup: Connect your old iPhone to your Mac, barrage iTunes, baddest your iPhone by beat the little buzz figure in the toolbar, and beneath Backups, choose This Computer. Checking Encrypt bounded backup is a acceptable idea, so your annual passwords and Health abstracts gets backed up too – aloof accept a countersign you won’t forget. Click the button to Back up now.
[ Further reading: Everything you allegation to apperceive about iOS 11 ]
When the advancement is done, affix your new iPhone X, afresh acquaint iTunes you appetite to restore from the advancement you aloof made. Or, skip bottomward to #2 beneath and use Quick Start. Later, you can about-face aback to iCloud backups if you prefer, in Settings > iCloud > Backup. But it never hurts to run a advancement on your own Mac every now and then.
For an iCloud backup: No allegation to affix your iPhone to your Mac. Aloof barrage Settings and tap on your Apple ID contour advertisement at the top, afresh go to iCloud > iCloud Backup and select Back up now. Aback ambience up your new iPhone X, you can restore your iPhone from this advancement already you’ve logged into your new accessory with your Apple ID.
If you arise to be advancing from an Android buzz (hey, acceptable to the garden!), there’s a Move from iOS Android app that can abetment you with ambience up your Google annual abstracts in Mail, Calendars and Contacts, affective your camera cycle over, alike appointment your Chrome bookmarks to Safari.
Quick Alpha makes ambience up a new iPhone fast and easy.
iOS 11 introduces a absolutely abundant new affection alleged Quick Start. It’s array of like magic. You aloof authority your new buzz abutting to your old buzz and a little agenda ancestor up allurement if you appetite to alteration all your being to the new device. You’ll afresh point your old phone’s camera at your new buzz (which displays a billow of little dots) and admission your old phone’s six-digit passcode.
You’ll go through the blow of the bureaucracy process, like enabling Face ID, and afresh your buzz will be attainable to go, set up aloof like your old iPhone. It’ll alike alert you to amend your old iPhone’s advancement if it hasn’t been backed up in awhile.
Setting up your buzz this way transfers over best of your settings, the adjustment of your home awning and more. It’s a huge time saver. But it requires iOS 11, so if you haven’t updated your old buzz to iOS 11 for some reason, you may appetite to do that ASAP. You don’t appetite to accept to delay through a big amend action already you accept your iPhone X in hand.
After ambience up your buzz this way, you’ll appetite to accord it a few account to re-download all your apps. Initially, your buzz will appearance placeholders for your apps, all abiding and blimp into folders absolutely as on your old iPhone. But every time you download an app from the App Store, your buzz absolutely grabs a altered adaptation accurately optimised for that iPhone model. So your new buzz has to download the apps again, but your user abstracts and settings get transferred over.
As fast and attainable as this is, we still acclaim abetment up your buzz as declared in #1 above. If annihilation goes absolutely amiss during your bureaucracy process, you’ll be animated you did!
Yes, you should use Face ID for best aegis – it’s the quickest way to alleviate your iPhone X, and will let you set a added complicated passcode, aback you don’t accept to blazon it in every time. Ambience up Face ID is abundant faster than Touch ID, too – the bureaucracy awning will alert you and ask you to boring attending about in a amphitheater a brace times. It’s a lot quicker than borer the home button dozens of times to annals a fingerprint.
Setting up Face ID is a lot faster than Touch ID.
Worried about your aloofness with Face ID? Don’t be. No photos of your face nor any added biometric abstracts anytime leave your buzz – Apple doesn’t get any of that. And it isn’t attainable by added apps, aloof as added apps weren’t able to admission your fingerprints with Touch ID. You can apprehend all about it in our Face ID FAQ.
Since you allegation to accept Face ID enabled in adjustment to use Apple Pay, this would be a acceptable time to jump into Apple’s Wallet app to set that up. If you’re new to Apple Pay, aloof chase the instructions aural Wallet to add a acclaim agenda or two. If you already had Apple Pay on your old iPhone, you’ll apprehension that your acclaim cards accept abolished on your new iPhone. Why? For your security, of course. Your Wallet history will still be there, but you’ll accept to re-enter any acquittal cards you’d like to use with Apple Pay. (For added on Apple Pay, analysis out our complete guide.)
Great, now you should be on your home awning at last. Hit up the App Store aboriginal – you’ll appetite the latest versions of all of your apps in adjustment to booty advantage of all the new abilities Apple has accustomed developers in iOS 11. If you’ve acclimated Quick Setup, best of your apps should be up to date already, so this will be, er, quick.
While you’re there, analysis out the App Store’s new iOS 11 redesign. You’ll acquisition collections of air-conditioned apps curated in magazine-style articles, interviews with up and advancing app developers, bold trailers and added aliment over in the Today section. This changes daily, so you can arise aback tomorrow to see what abroad is new.
Thesis the new App Store on an iPad. Fancy! You get these nice beat app bales on the iPhone too.
Don’t balloon you can accept your apps auto-update by flipping the Updates about-face in Settings > iTunes & App Stores. Or, you can manually amend your apps and aloof analysis out the ‘What’s New’ absolution addendum to see what changed.
If you use an Apple Watch (or maybe you aloof bought a cast new Apple Watch Series 3 to go with your future-phone) you’ll allegation to brace it to your new iPhone to accumulate the Activity abstracts abounding to your Health database, and accumulate your new phone’s notifications abounding to your watch. Aboriginal you accept to unpair your watch from your old iPhone, either in the Apple Watch app on your old iPhone (tap your watch, afresh the ‘i’ icon, then Unpair Apple Watch, afresh admission your iCloud countersign aback prompted), or on the watch itself (Settings > General > Reset).
Then, barrage the Apple Watch app on your new iPhone X, which will airing you through the bond action including ambience a passcode, unlocking behaviour and Apple Pay.
If your Apple Watch isn’t already active WatchOS 4, you’ll appetite to amend it. Read more about watchOS 4 here. To upgrade, your Apple Watch needs to be affiliated to its charger, in ambit of your iPhone, and at atomic 50 percent charged. Afresh attending for the Software Amend advantage in the Apple Watch app. Advancement your watch all the way to WatchOS 4.1, which adds alarming new music appearance for Series 3 watches and important aegis updates for everyone.
As you may accept noticed, your iPhone X has no home button. Area the Home button acclimated to be, you now accept an added half-inch or so of august OLED display!
So how do you do all that being you acclimated to use the home button for? How does the app switching work? Or demography a screenshot?
Here are a few basal commands you’ll allegation to re-learn now that your iPhone is ‘home free’.
Return Home: Aloof bash up from the basal of the screen. Easy!
Jump amid apps: Swipe larboard or appropriate alternating the basal bend of the buzz to jump aback and alternating amid apps. You can array of ‘flick’ from the basal corners, affective your feel up and over, to ‘bounce’ amid the apps, or aloof accelerate anon side-to-side alternating the basal edge.
App switcher: Swipe up from the basal bend and abeyance for a added with your feel still on the display. App cards will quickly pop up, and you can lift your feel off and bash about through them.
Close an app: If you allegation to annihilate an app from the app switcher, you do it a little differently. On added iPhones, you bash up on the app card. On the iPhone X, you columnist and authority on the cards until red (-) symbols arise in the corners. Tap those to abutting the apps.
Take a screenshot: Simply columnist the ancillary button and the aggregate up button at the aforementioned time.
There are lots of added new commands and gestures to learn. You’re in luck: We accept a adviser for that!
The iPhone 8 and X abutment a cast new camera technology alleged Account Lighting. It’s in beta, but you can still accord it a attempt (get it?). Aloof barrage the Camera app and baddest Account from your camera modes at the basal of the screen, and afresh bash through the altered lighting options at the bottom.
Portrait Lighting will booty your iPhone X account shots to the abutting level. Hello Kitty agrees.
On the iPhone 8, account approach (including Account Lighting) is alone accessible on the aback cameras. But on the iPhone X, the front-facing selfie camera can use it, too!
The iPhone X has best of the aforementioned camera improvements as the iPhone 8 Added – bigger low-light performance, added authentic colour, and up to 4K 60fps video. But the iPhone X has optical angel stabilisation (OIS) on both the regular and the telephoto rear cameras.
Control Centre is one of the bigger changes in iOS 11. Instead of overextension your utilities out over three sliding pages, Apple abridged them into one awning with a uniform-looking set of icons. On the iPhone X, you admission Ascendancy Centre by annexation bottomward from the top of the screen, to the appropriate of the sensor notch. Apple’s absence Ascendancy Centre utilities accommodate your camera, flashlight, calculator and anxiety clock; you’ll additionally acquisition two sliding controls for your aggregate and awning brightness, added toggles for circling awning lock, Do Not Disturb, awning apery and all of your wireless controls (like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Airplane Mode). This is additionally area you’ll acquisition your iPhone X’s actual array activity percentage, aback it can’t fit on the awning anymore (thanks, Face ID notch).
iOS 11's Ascendancy Center is customisable (the absence agreement is at far right). Individual items can be broadcast to acknowledge added controls.
One of the best genitalia about iOS 10’s Ascendancy Centre was the abounding folio of controls aloof for audio playback, like aback you’re alert to a podcast or alive from Apple Music. In iOS 11, your audio controls are abridged into a baby box featuring aloof a play/pause button and some skip controls. However, if you 3D Touch on the audio ascendancy box, it will aggrandize and acknowledge a abounding apartment of options for bigger control.
In fact, several of your Ascendancy Centre utilities accept hidden 3D Touch appearance – aloof long-press on any ascendancy to aggrandize it. A ablaze tap will about-face that affection on or off, but a best 3D Touch action will aggrandize it some more.
There are a boatload of added appearance you can add to your Ascendancy Centre panel, too – arch on over to Settings > Ascendancy Centre > Customise Controls, and add any affection that sounds interesting. Looking for article new? Analysis out Do Not Disturb While Driving, a affection that automatically enables Do Not Disturb already your iPhone detects that you’re in a affective vehicle, and Awning Recording, which lets you almanac what’s on your iPhone’s awning and afresh allotment it.
For added on what Ascendancy Centre can do, check out our abysmal dive.
There’s a acumen your new iPhone X has that agleam bottle back, and that’s not because it’s a bequest to the iPhone 4. No, that bottle aback is for wireless charging support. To use this feature, you’ll allegation a accordant wireless charging pad that utilises the Qi accepted (Apple sells two – one from Belkin and one from Mophie – but we’ve approved others that assignment accomplished too). If you accept one of those lying around, all you accept to do is set your iPhone assimilate the pad and watch it alpha to ability up. Say goodbye to the assortment of Lightning cables on your bedside table!
Of course, you can allegation your iPhone X via Lightning if you appetite to. In fact, this is still the fastest way to allegation your phone, provided you use the appropriate adapter and cable.
The iPhone 8 and X abutment fast charging application the USB-C Ability Delivery (USB-PD) standard. You can use Apple’s own 29W USB-C ability adapter, or the USB-C ability adapter for a avant-garde Macbook Pro. But third-party USB-C ability adapters should assignment as well, as continued as they abutment the USB-PD standard. You’ll allegation to buy a lightning-to-USB-C cable and a new adapter, because you’ll alone acquisition that aforementioned old apathetic 5W adapter and a USB-A lightning cable central your iPhone X box.
I apperceive it’s silly, but the best way to blow about your new Future Buzz is to accelerate addition an iMessage that shows the Poo Emoji altogether lip-synced and afterward your facial expressions as you sing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. They will be so jealous.
Animoji are begin in Messages, as an iMessage app at the basal of the screen.
If you accelerate a singing poo to your friends, they'll apperceive you accept an iPhone X. It's that simple.
