hey what's up it's Jerad with State of tech and today we're gonna update an iPhone
to iOS 12 now if you have anything that is an iPhone 5s or newer then you're
going to be able to update to iOS 12 if you don't have a device that is that new
which the iPhone 5s is actually pretty old then you're not going to be able to
update past the last version and that's not necessarily a bad thing it's simply
that those devices have enough power have enough processor power and Afram
enough storage to be able to support the latest version of iOS so when you're
thinking about upgrading or updating to the latest version you definitely need
to take some precautionary measures to make sure that all your data is backed
up so depending on the version that you're updating from things are gonna
look a little bit different I'm assuming that you're probably coming from iOS 11
and updating to iOS 12 that's what is on this device here but the process for
backing up and kind of making sure that all of your stuff is safe is gonna be
the same regardless of what version of iOS you're on these things just may look
a little bit different so when you're watching my screen when you're seeing my
screen here just keep in mind that things might be a little bit different
so I actually have my wife's phone here we're gonna update today because my iOS
device is already updated I was playing around with the beta version so I'm
gonna go ahead and unlock it now before starting I recommend that you charge up
your phone and that you plug it in with the cable now the phone here is a
hundred percent so we're gonna be able to do the backups we're gonna be able to
do the software updates without any problem so the first thing that I think
you should do before you really get too far down the road is free up storage
making sure that you have enough storage for the next version of iOS now these
phones these days are coming with a lot of storage on them so chances are you
probably have a lot of available space but if you have an older phone that has
maybe 16 gigs of memory or maybe 32 even you might be getting close to running
out of space so what I recommend is installing google photos the Google
Photos app allows you to back all of your photos to the cloud for free
google gives you unlimited free storage and it does compress your images a
little bit but you're not going to notice any difference in quality the
images are backed up they give you unlimited and so why not take advantage
of that so you're gonna need to go into the App Store if you haven't and
download the Google Photos app and then sign in using like a gmail account or a
Google account if you have that so you'll know that things are done because
the this little meter here is going to show you how many images it has to back
up and so it says that there's just three because my wife uses Google photos
I showed her this a long time ago and she's been backing up her stuff ever
since you know she used to run out of memory all the time when she had a 16
gig phone this phone I believe is a 64 gig so there's plenty of room now but
it's still good to backup those photos if you don't have a backup of your
photos in your videos then if something happens to your phone you're gonna lose
all of that stuff even if you back up to your computer or something like that say
something happens to your phone and your computer you're still gonna lose all
your photos and your videos so I recommend using Google photos because it
is free to backup your photos in your videos and you get unlimited so why not
take advantage of that there's also some neat tools and things that Google photos
does just to kind of make the experience great I've absolutely loved using Google
photos to backup and I tell all of my family and my friends to use Google
photos to backup because there's nothing worse than losing all the photos and all
the video clips that you've shot over the years all right so you get that cool
little check mark in the cloud there to let you know that things are complete if
you do need to free up space simply tap on the menu over here and go to free up
space and it's actually gonna scan your phone and then look at what it has
already backed up into Google photos and it's gonna say you know what you could
basically do and it says delete 2709 items to free up space so you can
actually hit that delete button and it's gonna free up space on your phone by
deleting what store on your phone now that sounds a little
scary but it's really not because everything is available here in the
cloud and if you needed to get to a photo and download it so for example
here's a photo of my daughter if we needed to redownload that photo all you
have to do is just go to the share sheet and of course you can save this to your
files there's several different ways that you can access this image you can
share it to others you can download the original you can edit it there's all
sorts of these send it to friends so there's lots of things that you could do
with your photos here as long as you're connected to a data network or to Wi-Fi
you're gonna be able to access all your stuff so does it really matter so much
if it's stored on your phone unless you're accessing something all the time
and you just don't want to use up data accessing it there's really no point in
storing it on the phone so what I will probably do on any phone
just because I want to have as much available space as I can is just hit
that free up space click on that delete button and it's gonna go ahead and
delete all of those items that are on the phone while making sure that there
are backups so it says delete nine photos from burst and other items
they'll become combined I'll go ahead and hit that delete and it's gonna go
ahead and delete all those items from my phone but of course they're backed up so
it does not matter now after it deletes and clears up all that space on your
phone it lets you know that there still is one additional step that needs to be
taken now when you delete photos and videos off of your phone they go into
the trash and they stay there for thirty days so in order to get that free space
back on your phone you have to take this last step however this is a chance for
you just to double check that everything is backed up so you can go and look and
make sure okay I've got all of my photos backed up and then you actually need to
go to your photos app so we'll go to the Photos app will scroll to wherever the
trash can is recently deleted right there
and you can see that it shows all these photos and when they're basically going
to be deleted we would need to select and then hit
delete all and delete those items and it would clear them off of the phone
and free up the space so now after it finishes this process we're gonna have
all of that space available so that we can make sure that we have enough space
to run that software update now that you have all of your photos backed up and
some additional free space on your phone it's time to run an iCloud backup now
iCloud has actually gotten really good over the years the backup is seamless
it's easy to run and as long as you don't have a ton of stuff on your phone
you don't even really have to pay any extra money for it so in order to backup
your phone you're gonna need to go into the Settings app so just swipe down type
in settings and tap on that icon and then up at the top it's going to show
your name and you can access all of your iCloud settings here now if you don't
see this you might be running a slightly older version of iOS and you simply just
need to scroll down to where it says iCloud so I'm gonna go ahead and tap
here and then I can tap on iCloud and then it's gonna show me how much storage
I have available now with all of our Apple accounts we get a small amount of
storage available for free which is usually enough to backup your you the
basics of your phone now if you do need more space there are ways that you can
free up more space on your phone we just freed up a ton of space on this
phone by deleting the photos and videos after having backed them up but you can
actually tap on manage storage here and see where all of your storage is being
used up so you can see here that we've got 2.1 gigs and iCloud drive that's
probably photos and videos and stuff like that that got moved over to iCloud
drive so I could even go and clear up some space there by managing that data
you can also see what apps are using iCloud here and which ones are keeping
things backed up and then you can scroll down even further and see the different
apps that are installed on your device and whether or not they're backing up
data now we're gonna go ahead and back up our iPhone to iCloud simply scroll
down and choose iCloud backup and then backup now
now if your phone hasn't backed up to iCloud before it's probably going to
take a little bit of time to do so I recommend plugging into a charger and
letting it go if you have iCloud backup turned on chances are it is running
overnight when your phone is plugged into a charger so I recommend keeping
your phone plugged in at night because when your phone is not being used and
you're sleeping and it's being charged it's gonna go ahead and run that backup
every night so the backup completed and you can see that the last successful
backup was at 8:10 a.m. which is right now that's good we want to make sure
that that backup is recent so that we don't lose any of our data in case
something happens so now that we have our photos backed up to the cloud and we
have our iCloud backup we can go ahead and run that software update now if you
didn't have enough room to do a backup to iCloud you can always plug in and do
a backup using iTunes on your computer to do that you simply plug in connect
the other end of the USB cable to your computer when iTunes launches you follow
the prompts and do a backup so to get access to the software update if you
haven't been notified on your phone already you simply go to your settings
click on general click on software update it's gonna go ahead and show that
there is an update available you're gonna hit download and install
it's gonna ask you for your passcode and then it's gonna go ahead and start
downloading now it is a pretty large file so it's gonna take a little bit of
time to download even if you have a pretty decent internet connection you're
going to want to be connected to a Wi-Fi connection here because this is a large
file and downloading a large file like that will eat up a lot of data and in
most cases it won't let you download the update unless you're connected to a
Wi-Fi network so when the update is done downloading and processing it's gonna
prompt you to install and there should be a countdown that's just gonna happen
if that doesn't take place you can scroll down to the bottom and tap on
install it's gonna verify the update and start processing it this is gonna make
your phone reboot once or twice and so this process may take a few minutes I
recommend plugging into a charger at this point and just letting the phone go
through its process it's probably depending on your phone get a take
anywhere between 10 minutes and 20 minutes it just really depends this is
an iPhone 6s so it should be kind of in the middle but if you have a slightly
older phone it could take a little bit longer now
the install process has done the phone will have restarted and it prompts you
for your passcode of course because the phone is restarted your fingerprint is
not going to suffice you'll have to put in your passcode to unlock it so you get
this message that says update completed now if you are updating from an older
version there may be a few extra steps to go through such as resetting up some
permissions and stuff like that so just follow the prompts agree to the terms
and conditions by hitting agree keep your iPhone up-to-date by hitting
continue or if you prefer install updates manually but I recommend hitting
continue now screen time is a new feature that's gonna track the amount of
time that you use your phone and different apps and give you some
insights into your behavior now I like this personally because it's gonna help
keep me in check to make sure that I'm not using my device too much and that
I'm interacting with the world around me so I'm going to go ahead and hit
continue to set this up and hit get started and then of course I can go in
and fine-tune later there's some carrier setting updates that I'll need to hit
update on which are gonna be specific to my carrier you may or may not see that
message on AT&T I did see that message so now the software update is completely
you know that the update has been installed because we go down to settings
we go to general hit about and you can see we are on version 12 so iOS 12 has
now been installed everything is good to go at this point I would recommend
making sure that your iCloud backups are able to run as we talked about at the
beginning of the video it's important that your backups are running in case
anything ever happens to your phone now if for some reason during the process
your phone did not completely restart or it's been over an hour and the software
update has not completed I would recommend restarting your device and you
will need to force restart your device so in order to do that you would press
down the lock button and the home button for an extended period of time and it
would completely restart your phone now the process on an iPhone 10 is gonna
be a little bit different because there is no home button you have to hold down
the lock button and the volume up so that's gonna do it for this video on how
to update your iPhone to iOS 12 I hope it was useful if you have any questions
or there seems to be a problem you're running into feel free to ask it down in
the comment section below I'll do my best to hang out and respond to those of
course you can always contact Apple and they will walk you through the process
or if you have an apple store nearby that's probably your best bet sometimes
issues can happen now if you do run into a situation where your phone completely
goes sideways and the process is bad you can completely restore your phone I will
provide a link down in the description below that walks you through how to
restore your phone and through that process during the set up you would then
login to your iCloud account which is your iTunes account and then select that
backup that you ran it'll take a little bit of time but it will run that restore
and it will restore your phone exactly back to where it was that's why we ran
that update to begin with so I hope this video helped you out give it a thumbs up
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