I visited the Mall of Louisiana last week with my sister, during the iPhone launch. She bought herself the new Desert Titanium 16 Pro. Besides waiting in line, the purchasing process only took us five minutes. Picked the color, picked the case, swiped the card. After eating lunch, I did all the setting up from the passenger seat. I plugged my phone in to show GPS, and then turned on my hotspot to give the new phone an internet connection.

When initially setting up an iPhone, the trick is Quick Start. Most people are worried about their iCloud backup, but that’s not what I use to transfer. From Quick Start, choose the second option to transfer directly from previous device. This process only requires both phones (old and new) to stay close to each other as the transfer completes.

By the time we arrived back home, her new phone was identical to her old one, and even her SIM card, which was a physical card before, was now converted to an eSim. All from the passenger seat without a WiFi connection.