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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister,
and welcome to another ScreenCastsOnline weekly tip video.
Apple have created a robust and simple method
of transferring all of your data to a new iPhone.
The usual steps are unpair your Apple Watch
on the old iPhone.
Back up your old iPhone to iCloud or iTunes.
Make sure that your new iPhone has the same iOS version
installed as your old iPhone.
Restore the backup to your new iPhone.
Pair your Apple Watch with the new iPhone
and then restore your Apple Watch backup.
Now this works great, but does restore all of your data,
including potentially dozens and dozens of apps
you no longer use.
If you want to clear your iPhone and start off
with a fresh installation.
You can set up your iPhone as a new iPhone
but at the current release, you'll lose all of your
Health, Activity, and Achievement data.
So, in this video, I'm going to show you
how to set up an iPhone as a new iPhone,
yet transfer all of your Health, Activity, and Achievement
data across to the new phone.
This does involve the use of a third party utility
and has worked successfully with iOS 11.1,
but there's no guarantee this will work
for future releases of iOS.
But having said that it works fine at the moment,
so let's take a look at how to set it up.
So, this is the rig I'll be using to demonstrate.
I've got my MacBook Pro, I've got my white iPhone 8 Plus.
This is the phone I've been using,
I want to transfer all of the Activity, Health,
and Achievement data from my iPhone 8 plus,
across to my new iPhone X.
Now to do this, I'm actually going to display
the phone on screen, so you can see at bit more clearly
what's happening.
And as you can see on this particular phone,
I've got tonnes and tonnes of applications
and I really don't use half of these
or probably a large percentage and a half.
So, I want to start from scratch across
on my iPhone X, I don't want to transfer all this data,
all these applications.
But I do want to transfer my Health, my Activity,
and my Achievement data.
The initial part of the process is exactly the same
as if we were going to do a normal restore
and that's creating a backup.
I need to create a backup of my iPhone 8 Plus,
also I need to create a backup of my Apple Watch.
First thing to do is to unpair the watch from the phone.
So, if I into the Watch app on the phone,
tap on Don's Apple Watch, type on little I symbol.
And then select unpair Apple Watch.
I just need to confirm.
And now I need to enter my Apple I.D. password,
and this allows it to unpair it from the watch,
remove it from my account.
Disable activation lock and remove find my watch.
So, let me just go ahead and do that.
So, that's now started the process
of unparing the Apple Watch.
This might take a little while.
Basically what it does is to create a backup of the watch,
within the iPhone backup, so that when we restore it
onto another phone, we can restore the watch as well.
But I'm gonna leave this for a little while
and we'll come back once it's completed.
So, the unpairing as now been completed
and if I show you my watch, you can see here,
it's looking for an iPhone to pair with.
Let me just come out of the Watch application.
And let's have a look at the Activity data
that's held on the phone.
So, if I do a quick search for Activity.
As you can see several months of ring completions,
my Achievement's data, there's also workouts
in here as well.
Already to be backed up, in a standard iPhone backup.
The next step is to take a full backup of the iPhone
and to do that, I've come across to the Mac,
it's still connected to the Mac via it's USB cable.
But I'm going to do an iTunes backup,
because we're going to process the backup
using a third part utility.
And to do that, the backup needs to be on your Mac.
Normally I do backup to iCloud, but as I said for this
particular set of circumstances,
I'm going to backup to my Mac.
So, to do that, if I go into iTunes.
And then if I just click on the button,
the little iPhone button.
There's my iPhone 8 Plus, so currently automatically backup
to iCloud, but I want to backup to this computer.
And importantly I want to encrypt the iPhone backup.
So, do that I need to give it a password.
So, let me quickly enter a password.
I'll verify the password.
And remember this password in my keychain.
Now the reason I encrypt the iPhone backup,
this allows Health and HomeKit data to be backed up as well.
So, we'll just go ahead, say accept password.
So, that's gonna take five or six minutes
to back up completely.
In the mean time, what I will do is reset my iPhone X,
to it's factory settings.
So, into settings, and then into general,
and scroll down to the bottom until we find reset.
And then I want to erase all content and settings.
Now I will need to enter my, oh here we go,
it's asking me, do you want to finish uploading?
No, we'll just say erase.
And enter my passcode.
So, I'll do that off screen.
Okay, and then erase all data.
I need to enter my passcode again.
I'll do that again off screen.
Okay, and then we'll say erase.
And that will now reset the phone.
I'll leave that for a few minutes
and then when we come back, we'll have a phone
ready to be restored.
So that backup is completely.
Let's zoom the Mac window up.
As you can see, I have a latest backup of today,
11:49 to this computer, so we'll say done.
We'll close iTunes.
I'll also get this QuickTime window out of the way, as well.
Right, so this is the applications we're going to use.
It's by a company called Decipher Media,
over at deciphertools.com.
They specialise in utilities that allow you
to recover information from backups
or to retrieve photos from backups, et cetera.
They've created this special utility
that allows you to par down, to pass through a backup
and just extract your Health, Activity,
Achievements, and Watch data.
Now, I've already downloaded and installed this utility.
So, if I pop Safari out of the way.
Here we go Decipher Activity Transfer.
I'll run that for the first time.
And we'll say open.
Okay, so how does it work?
Decipher Activity Transfer, will take an existing,
encrypted iPhone, iPad, or iPoud touch backup
and create a clone backup, keeping only the Health,
Activity, and Apple Watch data.
You can restore this back to a new device to start fresh,
but keep your Achievements, Watch configuration,
and Health data.
Which all sounds good to me, so we'll say next.
So, the application will now scan your Mac
to find backups, I only have the single backup here,
Don's iPhone 8 Plus.
So, we're gonna select that one.
It'll review it.
Now to enter my password, remember I entered an encryption
password when I created the backup.
So, I'll just add that in.
And it's gonna go through and check the password.
Now I will fast forward through some of these processes,
because they do take a few minutes to run through.
So, the next thing is, it's progressing through the file.
And here we go, we can review the messages.
So this backup is encrypted, so it contains,
this is good, there is another message here
about file names being too long.
There are files in your backup that cannot be restored,
because the file name is too long.
Typically these files are caused by bugs in an app
and we'll take care of removing them if needed.
That sounds fine, we'll go ahead
and say customise it to progress.
Now, if you do want to customise it,
you need to buy a licence code,
but we're not actually going to customise,
we're just gonna go ahead and clean it.
So, I'll ignore these two buttons and just say clean it.
And it's now cleaning your backup.
So, again, I'll fast forward this slightly,
so that you're not waiting for a couple of minutes
while it goes through each step.
So, it's creating a new backup from the original,
with only the requested data.
And now it's creating a new backup from the original.
And there we go, almost done, click next, below to continue.
And now it's finalising the backup for restore in iTunes.
Again, I'll just jump to the next stage.
Here we go.
Some additional messages, but I'm just gonna
skip these for now.
Next process is to start the build on the iPhone X.
So, I'm going to initiate or rather start
the build on iPhone X.
So, let me just, we'll start with the iPhone X first.
We'll tap the screen, swipe up,
and now I'm going to use the set up, the quick setup
in iOS 11 to set up the iPhone X.
So, we'll grab the image from the iPhone X with the 8 Plus.
That will start the quick set up process.
I'll disconnect the USB we don't need that now.
And now I need to enter the passcode off the other phone.
I'll quickly do that.
Of course this is my personal phone,
so I don't want to show you my passcode.
And we're now off.
I'll quickly jump to the next stage.
So, prompting us for Face I.D.
I'll say continue, in fact, I'll skip this step.
I can always set this up later in settings.
So we'll carry onto the next stage.
Okay, so this is the point now where we select the backup.
Because I want to restore my iTunes backup,
the one that we've runned through the Decipher application,
I'm gonna choose this bottom entry.
Which is choose other backup or don't restore.
And then on this next screen, I'll say,
restore from iTunes backup.
And as you can see, we now got a message
to connect the iPhone to iTunes.
So, let me plug the USB cable in.
And we'll see if iTunes start automatically.
Looks like I'll have to switch to it using command+tab.
And there we are.
iTunes has picked up the fac that we've connected
a new phone to it.
I can either set up as a new iPhone
or restore from this backup, and this is my Decipher cleaned
Don's iPhone 8 Plus, backup.
So that's the one I want, I'll say continue.
Enter the encryption password to unlock the iPhone backup.
We'll say okay.
Right, so it's now restoring iPhone from backup.
Now this will be very quick, because don't forget,
it's not a full backup, it's just the Health,
Activity, and Watch data.
So, as you can see, time remaining less than a minute.
Settings for the phone has been restored,
leave your phone connected, it will appear in iTunes
window after it restarts.
So we'll just let the phone restart.
Now the phone has restarted, but we've just got let it
go through it's initial sequence.
So, we do need to enter my passcode at this point.
It says on the phone restore complete, continue.
But I also now need to, well I'm gonna stop at this point.
I'm gonna wait until iTunes, let me just try again
on the message on iTunes.
The phone should now appear back in iTunes.
We'll just give that a few seconds.
Now, if we give it a few seconds,
we should see the new iPhone X appear, here we go.
Right, so welcome to your new iPhone.
Now I've already restored this phone,
I've done the partial restore.
So, what I need to do now is setup as a new phone.
So, if we go ahead, select setup as a new iPhone.
Hit continue.
And just give it a few seconds
and then click on get started.
That displays the iPhone X info screen on iTunes.
Now on the iPhone itself, if we swipe up to start the,
or rather to continue the process.
Just enter my personal code in.
And now an option the Apple I.D.,
I'll take that off screen to do that.
Okay, that's now entered in.
Just agree to the terms and conditions.
I'll skip forward for a few minutes.
Right, the usual standard things now.
Location services, I will enable.
Apple Pay, I'll set up later in settings.
Siri, I'll set up later in settings.
Let's send some iPhone analytics and app analytics.
And I'll switch on True Tone Display.
Tap continue and just skip past these information panels.
And we're into the iPhone.
So, that now contains all my Health and Activity data.
If I go into Activity, you'll see there are my rings
for today.
And then if I scroll up, scroll down rather,
you can see the rings that I've completed
over the past few months.
There's also my Achievements as well,
so they've all been safely across in the partial restore.
The final stage in the process is to restore my Apple Watch.
First off I need to pair the Apple Watch
with the new iPhone.
So, I'll just bring the watch close to the iPhone.
And you'll see this little message pops up.
I can just tap continue.
And that takes me into the Watch application itself.
I just pick up the phone, capture the image of the Watch.
Now my Apple Watch is paired.
I need now to restore from backup
and these are all the backups that are contained
within the backup that I restored before.
So, the top one is Don's Apple Watch, we'll select that.
And now the restoration process will continue.
And that's gonna take a few minutes for that to complete.
Okay, now that's finished.
I've got the terms and conditions, I'll just agree,
and agree again.
And again, another delay while it signs into my account.
Could take a few minutes.
Now that's completed, I have the option to enable
a Route Tracking or disable.
We'll say enable.
We'll use Siri.
We'll say okay.
And shared settings, again, we'll say okay
to shared settings.
I need to create passcode for my watch.
I'm gonna add a long passcode, especially with using
Apple Pay on the Watch, I like to use a long password.
I'll create one, I need to do this on the Watch.
So, I'm actually doing this off screen now.
Again, this is my personal iPhone and Apple Watch,
so I don't really want to risk revealing my passcode.
And once that's completed, we've got the option
to set up Apple Pay, I'll do that later,
and also the Emergency SOS, we'll just say continue.
And the Apple Watch is syncing,
now that normally takes a little while for it to sync.
But once it's synced, we should be able to go into
the Watch application and see my Apple Watch
all ready and set up to use.
Okay, so now, if I go back into the Watch app.
We'll say okay, and there is Don's Apple Watch,
all ready to go.
Tap on here, you'll see all my Watch faces
and all my applications, et cetera.
But we'll just put that back.
So, that's how you would partially restore
the new iPhone and clear out all the old applications
that you don't use anymore.
Course you can delete applications one by one,
if you want.
You may also be thinking, it's a pity you didn't know
about this when you got your last iPhone,
you would have liked to have done it then.
Well, of course, you can do it with a single iPhone.
What you could do is to make a complete backup
of your iPhone as it stands.
So, do one in iCloud, do one is iTunes,
as I've showed you in this short video.
Then reset your iPhone, set it back to factory settings,
again, as I showed you in the show.
Then process the backups, so that you remove
all the application data and then restore that backup
back to the same iPhone and in effect,
it's the same as really doing a new compave on a Mac.