Keith, When we got our iPhone 8 we took the SIM cards out of our old phones and put them in the 8 before we even powered it on. Our old phones were of course on WiFi so everything worked just fine. I would unbox the new phone, turn off your 7, remove the SIM and put it in the new phone, then power on the 7 first and enter your PIN so it's ready to go. Then turn on the new phone, wait a bit (30 seconds should be plenty) and press the side button 3 times to start Voiceover. Most phones come charged, ours had between 70 and 80%, but one way to make sure the phone has enough charge and to power it on is to simply plug in the new phone after you inserted the SIM, that will power it on and then 30 seconds or so after you plug it in a triple press of the side button should get the thing babbling and everything else is explained from there. One thing, if you do the setup by putting your old phone close to the new one, remember that I think if you are trying to scan the barcode it is the old phone you do the scanning with, e.g. you hold the old phone's camera over the screen of the new phone. I would sort of line it up by holding it very close, then raise the phone straight up about 6 inches and it should scan, maybe 8 but you certainly don't have to hold it a foot away.. Maybe somebody can confirm this, but I'm almost certain it's the old phone you use to scan the new phone, from a logical perspective one could easily think you scan the old phone with the new one.
Good luck, Sieghard From: 'Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D.' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 10:42 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: New iPhone arrives tomorrow. What's the easiest way to set it up? Hi, My new iPhone X arrives tomorrow. What’s the easiest way to set it up from my iPhone 7. I’m confused about this approach of hlding a new phone close to an existing phone. At what stage do I transfer the sim to the new phone – before or after I do the close holding thing? A step by step guide would be most welcome. I think I’ll try setting up from an iCloud backup of my iPhone 7, and if that doesn’t work well I’ll reset the phone and then do it from an encrypted iTunes backup. Thanks in advance. Keith -- 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: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>. 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: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
