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So...I have a new iPhone and have a few questions...

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Graphista · 18/10/2019 17:21

It's an iPhone 7.

1 It currently has iOS 12.4 but I have the update 13.1.3 available to update to.

A any ideas how long an update would take?

B any bugs with the newer iOS I should be aware of?

With last phone I'm afraid I rather neglected the iOS updates BECAUSE of reports in the news and comments from users online that there were big problems with certain iOS versions but this resulted in me not updating for ages and caused other problems, want to avoid that this time.

2 Because of the problems I was having with last phone I fairly recently did a backup to iCloud after not doing for ages.

A concern I have with this phone is it's half the memory of the old phone (se 64gb this one only has 32gb and according to info on settings I ALREADY have used 16gb mainly on apps pre loaded which I'll never bloody use Angry) so I'm wary of downloading the iCloud backup to this phone and actually I'm not really sure I want to. The photos I didn't want to lose I emailed to myself (in case the iCloud backup hadn't worked) and the apps I use regularly I'm just downloading semi-fresh to this phone. There were likely a load of apps and "stuff" backed up to iCloud that I didn't really use, won't miss and don't want clogging up my memory.

So I would appreciate thoughts/comments on this.

3 now to fun side - any apps/games you would recommend? Tips for using iPhone 7?

Looking forward to reading replies.

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Groovee · 19/10/2019 14:31

Mine did it at night. Dh's didn't take long to do during the day.

jodgepodge · 20/10/2019 09:57

Yes, keynote is apple's PowerPoint equivalent. On my iPhone I can uninstall any app, even Apple ones.

DelurkingAJ · 20/10/2019 10:05

My storage problems were photos. So I’ve downloaded Google photos (and also backed them up to a DVD and printed the best because I’m paranoid) and have oodles of space again for no money.

userxx · 20/10/2019 10:31

What's google photos's? Am sure my friend mentioned this.

Lhastingsmua · 20/10/2019 11:16

With photos, you can upload them to iCloud and chose to remove the copies stored on your iPhone in photo settings.

Basically this allows you to access all of your photos as normal (as if they were still saved on your phone) but when you click on a photo, it will take a second to load from the cloud. You still have access to your full gallery but without taking up the storage

userxx · 20/10/2019 11:56

And that's google photo's?

Graphista · 20/10/2019 13:10

So I can see what's stored on my iCloud account and select what to download or is that only photos ?

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