- You know, there are a lot of great tutorials online
that explain how to erase all of your data on your old phone
before you move completely over to your new phone.
But all of them, at least the ones that I've seen,
forget this very one important step that you need to take
and that's what I'm gonna talk to you about today.
My name's Josh.
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All right, let's go ahead and dive in your phone
and show you exactly which setting
that most people are forgetting about.
Okay, you see here this is my old phone
and this is my new phone.
Apple does an amazing job of making you feel
like they've copied everything over
from the old phone to the new phone
so that it's an exact replica of your old phone.
The problem is, it's not.
They haven't done everything and that's a problem because
when you're going through that process,
they want you to erase your old phone
and they prompt you to do so.
So what are the things that haven't been copied over?
Well, let's look at my Google Authenticator app.
My Google Authenticator app has all of my codes in it.
And if you go into the Google Authenticator app
for my new phone, it doesn't have any of the codes.
So if you were to have erased your old phone
and then tried to get into Google
or one of your other investment accounts or into Twitter
and you didn't have access to these codes,
you would lose access to those accounts
unless you had a backup two-factor authentication set up
which I recommend you do, but a lot of people don't.
And these are the emails I get day in and day out
from people who have been locked out of their accounts,
losing lots of money because they forgot to go in
and make sure that all of their codes had been transferred.
So I've already done a video on this
but I'll show you very quickly
if I wanted to transfer these over, it's not that hard.
For Google Authenticator, I can go in,
I can create a QR code
that I can then scan with this phone.
Let's get started, scan this QR code
and now all of these accounts have been imported over
and I can make sure that I can remove the accounts now
from this one if I wanted to.
But now I have all of the same codes on both of the devices
and I can log into those accounts.
Those are not automatically transferred
when you clone your phone from the old one to the new one.
And you might want to go through
and make sure that you do the same
for all of the different Authenticator apps.
So let's say I'm looking at this device.
I've got Microsoft Authenticator.
I've got Google Authenticator.
I've got Rubicon Authenticator, and I have Au thy.
Now, some of these might have backups, but they might not.
And going in and making sure
that I have copied all of these,
sometimes it might even require me to go in manually
and make sure that I add a new device
in my security settings for an account.
So if I'm going into Twitter, right,
sometimes let's say I'd have to log into Twitter,
use this code and then set up a new device,
not for Google Authenticator
but let's say for Microsoft Authenticator
or Au thy or Rubicon Authenticator
because it has been attached to that particular device.
So before you do anything else,
I would make sure that you have brought over
all of your 2FA keys if that is something that you use.
And then once you've done that, now you can go in
and Apple's gonna show you
how you can do step-by-step instructions
to prepare this iPhone to be sold.
So you can go, I'll link to another video
that'll walk you through step-by-step
how to erase everything on your iPhone
or you can just press get started
and allow Apple to walk you through
all of this stuff on itself.
Getting rid of all the things on your Apple Wallet,
removing this phone from Find My Devices,
getting rid of all your apps and data,
signing out of your Apple ID.
Apple will walk you step by step through this whole process
if you want them to
or you can just go through this video that you see here
that will just go step-by-step through it as well.
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