How do I transfer content from an old iPhone to my s6?

[Jillpickle]

So tomorrow my new iPhone (6s) is coming in the mail and I want my stuff on the new one, and my mom is getting my old phone(had flip phone), are these the steps I do to make it work?

1. Do iCloud backup on old

2. Restore from new iphone

3. Reset old phone

4. Mom takes in my old phone and her flip phone into a verizon store and they get her number on it

Is that right?

Also I have a few questions:

1. When I reset my old phone with my stuff on the new one will it delete the stuff on the new one?

2. Could my mom get her pictures from her flip phone to my old phone?

Thanks!

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Hi Jillpickle,

Congrats on your new iPhone 6S! We know making sure that your information is backed and restored is critical. It's wonderful that you are giving your old phone to your Mom. We can help. What device do you currently have? What make/model phone does your Mom currently have? Based on this information we can provide the best transfer options.

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[Jillpickle]

I have the iPhone 4 and my mom has the

Samsung Intensity® III Steel Gray (Had to copy and paste)

[Weth]

I edited my post since at first I did not know you were giving her an iPhone 4.

The change is:

4A. Since you are giving her a iPhone 4, it can be activated on line or by a phone call with no visit to Verizon. No SIM card is needed.

[Jillpickle]

What phone would she call it on and if she called it on mine would it still be my number?

[Jillpickle]

(My old one)

[Weth]

When you get your new iPhone (enjoy by the way!), turn off your old iPhone 4. Then activate the new iPhone 6S, making sure your iPhone 4 is completely OFF. Now with your new 6S activated, call Verizon customer service and have them activate your old iPhone 4 on your mom's number. When you are doing this, make sure she has her old basic phone turned off.

[Jillpickle]

One more thing, since I ordered my new phone from verizon will the new phone have the number that I upgraded?

[Weth]

Yes. You are going to an LTE phone, and the big difference is the new phones use a SIM card. Yours will come with a SIM card already installed and ready to activate on your line. Sometimes you need to call CS if it doesn't activate right away, but usually goes very smoothly. It will have the same number as your iPhone 4, which is why it is important to completely turn off the iPhone 4 (press and hold the power/wake button on the top until you see a slider come up to turn the phone off) before you try activation.

[Jillpickle]

Ok I swear this is my last question (LOL) do I reset the old phone after new one has all stuff on it and turn it off or turn it off with the stuff still on it?

[Weth]

Turn it off with all the stuff still on it and activate the new iPhone. After your new iPhone is activated, you can turn it on to reset it without causing problems. To let activation go smoothly, you must have it off at the time of activating the new phone.

The reason to do this, is if for some reason the back up is corrupted or does not work, you still have all your stuff to try a back up again. If you erase it before you restore the new phone, and something happens during restore, you will lose everything.

[Weth · Accepted solution]

Some clarifications and additions

1. Do iCloud backup on old

1A. Sign out of iCloud and Find My iPhone on old phone

2. Restore from new iPhone

2A. Confirm you got everything you need on new iPhone before going to step 3

3. Reset old phone - Settings/General/Reset/Erase All Content and Settings

4. Mom takes in my old phone and her flip phone into a verizon store and they get her a number on it

4A. Since you are giving her a iPhone 4, it can be activated on line or by a phone call with no visit to Verizon. No SIM card is needed.

Also I have a few questions:

1. When I reset my old phone with my stuff on the new one will it delete the stuff on the new one?

No, but that is a good reason to sign out of iCloud as I added in step 1A. Once you do that, iCloud can't see what is happening on the phone.

2. Could my mom get her pictures from her flip phone to my old phone?

In a round-about way. You would have to download them to a computer. With the iCloud beta site, you can upload the photos to her icloud photo library

https://beta.icloud.com/#