Hi Geoff, If your mother is anything like another mom I know, she might take the part about changing her apple ID a bit too literally and attempt to use "YYY" as her new ID. <grin>.
Here's an Apple KB article that gives some more details about what is and is not backed up using itunes and icloud. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766 Here's a PCMag article that gives a good step-by-step for migrating from one iphone to another. The meat of this article is on the second page. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394576,00.asp#fbid=6rJPtBghPDU HTH, Bryan On Nov 12, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Greetings all, > > I thought I'd compose an eMail to my Mother that she could have available as > we're talking; among other things it took about ten minutes yesterday for her > to write down the wi-fi password, which she probably still got wrong, and no > doubt it was long ago misplaced in a pile of random papers. Here's what I've > written so far, with a few tiny redaction's of course. > > Quote: > Perhaps if you print this it will help as we work through it over the phone. > > First, you probably want to change your AppleID to an address where you can > receive email. To do this, start iTunes and you should see a menu at the top > called: "store". Select "view my account" and edit your Apple id so as to > change from "XXX" to "YYY". > > Next, attach your old phone -- it should appear under "devices" in iTunes. > In the info tab there should be an option to check for updates. Let it > update to version 5.01. > > Next on the old phone go into settings -> iCloud and select contacts, > reminders, etc. After selecting all the items you want brought over to your > new phone select "storage and backup" and from there select "backup now". > When that completes, you can turn off the old phone by pressing and holding > the power button on top for a couple seconds, and when prompted, slide your > finger to power off. > > Now you can turn on your new phone, and the setup dialog should be pretty > straight forward. When prompted for your wi-fi password, enter: "ZZZ". > Unquote > > This is as far as I've gotten. I assume that the cloud will bring over her > contacts, but doubt at this point that I can have her selectively restore > from her 3GS in order to recover her apps and folder structure? > > My questions to the list are whether I can simplify the process by > eliminating any of the above steps, or if this would be the most painless > option, is there a way to migrate her apps and folder structure, or should I > just have her redownload everything and plan to organize her folders when I > get there? > > TIA for any comments. > Geoff > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
