[jyl]

I replaced my battered iPhone 12 with an iPhone 15 Pro. Not the 16, because I never buy the latest iPhone. The camera button is not worth $500 more.

This must be the tenth time I’ve moved iPhones.

Apple makes their part of it easy. Put the two phones next to each other and wait an hour.

But some of the apps and services are a right pain. It took me 20 minutes to sign into Google, which kept demanding some passphrase I’d never set up. Less bad, but still irritating, were other apps.

I also wanted to clear out some of the junk. Why does Facebook save every “chat” and “invite” I’ve ever received? I’m having to manually select and delete them going back to 2008. It is interesting seeing chats with dead people, but whatever - delete. Similarly for other social media.

All in all, it’s been 36 hours since I moved phones, an unhealthy amount of which has been spent poking at the new phone, and I’m only just starting to get things working smoothly again.

This really should be easier!