First World Problems: It is going to take all day plus a few hours to switch iPhones

[Cali-Glock]

I use a work iPhone and my current/old phone is an iPhone 7Plus.

My new iPhone 11 arrived last night.

I had not updated my IOS in a while so this morning I went to update the IOS of my iPhone 7 and then backed up my phone.

The problem is Apple forces you to use wifi to update the IOS and I have satellite internet. It took over six hours to download and install the current Apple IOS, and then I backed up my iPhone 7.

But when setting up the iPhone 11 it would not let me restore my backup because my iPhone 7 has backed up using IOS 14.3 and my new iPhone 11 has IOS 14.2.

It has now been almost 8 hours since I started this process and my iPhone 11 currently says it will be 3+ hours to download the update... but if I use my PC for anything it extends that time... a few minutes ago it said 10 hours... LOL

First world problems!

[gorn5150]

Apple has never forced me to update with wifi. I update using itunes.

[bigbearbear]

I just go into a Apple store and have them do it in the store, very quick and easy.

[Robotron2k84]

iTunes is the way to go when doing anything other than a one-step OTA upgrade.

[Misterclick]

Yep. Download iTunes to PC. Use cable to backup and restore. Or as others said take it in to town and have them do it. I live in a rural areas and I could never do an OTA backup or restore

[Skip_Dog]

Cancel your IPHONE. Apple thinks they can tell you what you can and cannot view on their platform. Ditch those clowns...

[OlderThanDirt]

Cancel your IPHONE. Apple thinks they can tell you what you can and cannot view on their platform. Ditch those clowns...

This! Get an Android phone because Google would never try to suppress your alleged free speech rights.

[champu]

Apple has never forced me to update with wifi. I update using itunes.

[Skip_Dog]

At least with android you get around many of their B.S. Not so much with apple. They all suck but I prefer the one I can B.S. with the most.

[Cali-Glock]

Yep. Download iTunes to PC. Use cable to backup and restore. Or as others said take it in to town and have them do it. I live in a rural areas and I could never do an OTA backup or restore

The IOS needs to match between the two phones.

Thus I was forced to update the IOS on both phones...

[Cali-Glock]

Yep. Download iTunes to PC. Use cable to backup and restore. Or as others said take it in to town and have them do it. I live in a rural areas and I could never do an OTA backup or restore

Apple has never forced me to update with wifi. I update using itunes.

I am using iTunes, but the IOS between both phones have to match.

[Cali-Glock]

I just go into a Apple store and have them do it in the store, very quick and easy.

An Apple store would be many hours away.

So an Apple store will move my data from one phone to the other? The restoration of data took a couple hours itself.

Essentially my employer's IT sent the phone to my house and theoretically the transfer should be fairly straightforward. I have always done it in the past - the only difference is normally the phone would be shipped to me at my office and I would use my desktop instead being sent to me at home and done on my laptop.

[Cali-Glock]

Just shy of 16 hours - finally everything is synced to the new phone and it has me do the new phone set up again, only this time the corporate control username/password is rejected: "Profile Installation failed. The profile <data> must be installed interactively"

No problem earlier... alas.

[Cali-Glock]

Exactly. If I tried to force it to use cellular data it would refuse to download and say I needed to use wifi.

[Robotron2k84]

Just shy of 16 hours - finally everything is synced to the new phone and it has me do the new phone set up again, only this time the corporate control username/password is rejected: "Profile Installation failed. The profile <data> must be installed interactively"

No problem earlier... alas.

Profile download comes off your corporate proxy, gateway or profile server. You can install it with the iPhone utility on OSXI, if you have the profile file, or get it from your employers server via URL.

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