How to Set Up Your iPhone 15 Using Your Old One

Unbox that new phone my friend

It’s here! Get yourself a coffee and unbox your new phone and check its contents to make sure you haven’t been ripped off and sold a white box full of wet sand !!

Find your new sim card

You should get your sim card with your phone and your phone should be at least 50% charged which should be enough to sort your set-up

Prep your sim card

Snap out ( super carefully!) your sim card from the main card, for an iPhone the sim card will have to be nano-sized look carefully and you’ll see that it can go smaller still. grab your sim tool from the instruction leaflet too.

Open your sim card holder

The sim card holder ( looking at the screen side of your iphone) is on the lower left hand edge, you’ll see a hole, carefully press the tool into the hole and you’ll see the sim card carrier pop out. place your nano-sized sim card in the carrier ( you’ll note there’s a corner cut off the card align this with the notch on the carrier.

Power her up!

Ok, it’s time! hold the big button on the right side, you’ll see the apple sign then hello in various languages, swipe up and then it will give the option to select your language.

Then you will get the screen on my left here, you need to grab your old iPhone, make sure it has plenty of power or better still plug it in and unlock. bring them close together then it will give you the option to use your old phone to set up your new one.

Set up

Your old phone ( pictured on the left here ) will ask you to focus its camera on the digitised image shown on your new iPhone ( pictured on the right) Do this and the set-up will begin. it will ask you if you want to use your old iPhones setting and apple Id.

Nearly Done

ok now your old iPhone will start to transfer your entire set-up to your new phone, everything will be moved over, safari tabs, contacts, notes, keychain passwords the full hit

Media transfer

your phones will now transfer all your media files, now which depending on how much you take pictures of your dinner or download music for ringtones this may take a while or not so long!!

Wallet updates

if you use Apple Pay, you will have re-enter and allow your new phone to use your card again.

Speaking of banking, you will have to log on to your banking apps again as if you’d just installed them. Banking apps don’t transfer login details for security reasons

You’ve Done It!!!!

All done! you now know how to set up your iPhone 15!! Your shiny new blower will now re-install all of your apps, again depending on how many you have and the speed of your connection this could take a while, but who gives a plop? You just transferred a large percentage of your digital life over into a piece of hardware that could be with you for 2 years or even upto a zombie apocalypse!!