How to Use iOS Setup Assistant: Complete Walkthrough for New iPhone Setup
After language, country, and local network verification, the assistant arrives at its most pivotal juncture: the Apps & Data transfer screen. The decisions made here dictate how apps, system keys, health metrics, and multimedia migrate to the device storage. Choosing incorrectly can leave application sandboxes empty or orphan essential cloud-synced databases.
You have four primary paths. Device-to-device migration duplicates the source iPhone bit-for-bit using direct Wi-Fi 6E/7 radio frequencies. iCloud backup restore pulls application states and settings straight from remote servers, which is ideal if your current phone is damaged, traded in, or unavailable. Users leaving Google's platform can choose Transfer from Android, which coordinates with the Move to iOS app to convert contacts, WhatsApp history, messages, and camera rolls into APFS-compliant structures. The final option, clean initialization, configures the iPhone as entirely blank hardware.
