Mary, I recently upgraded from an iPhone 7 to an iPhone 8 which I purchased directly from Apple. Both of these models were Verizon phones. First, if your ordered your iPhone XR from T-Mobile, won't it come with its SIMM card already installed so you don't have to fool with transferring a SIMM from your old phone to your new one? I know that was the case with my new iPhone 8. I don't remember having to do anything with 2-factor authentication when setting up my new iPhone 8. I used that feature introduced with iOS 11 I believe that lets you hold the old phone near the new one to transfer settings and then I restored an iTunes backup to the new phone. I don't recall it asking me to 2-factor authenticate anything but if it did, it was done on the new phone without any issues.
I hope some of the above makes sense. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 7:47 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Upgrading to a new iPhone with two factor authentication It�s been along time since I�ve had to deal with either getting a new phone or using two factor authentication. What I remember from the last time I bought a phone is that you have to put the Sim from your old phone into your new phone in order to get the process of getting your phone up and running started. I also remember some problems with two factor authentication in the past, having to do with needing to have two devices on the same network or something, so that I could get a message on one that would then be typed into the other one in order to continue with the process. Does anybody know of documentation somewhere that spells out just what you have to do? I mean, here I would have my old phone on my Wi-Fi network but no Sim, so no cellular connection. The new phone will be presumably on the cellular network but I can�t remember where the Wi-Fi setting comes in. Anyway, all I need is a pointer in the right direction I guess. Mary Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
