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You are overthinking it. Switching to a new iPhone is something I’ve done half a dozen times and the best route is to make sure your old phone is backed up to iCloud, then restore the backup on the new phone. Note that this backup is not a file system image. It is pretty clean. If you were moving to a new Windows computer and you wanted to start fresh — heck yes. But for an iPhone, which will redownload all your apps from the App Store anyway, it’s not necessary. Restoring from iCloud backup is a huge timesaver and there is, in my experience, no benefit to not using it. Enjoy your new iPhone!
Yeah, that's fair enough what you are saying. Although my icloud package is tinyyyyy haha. Thanks!
I think if you bought via Apple it’ll recognise your new purchase and give you a month of free iCloud data enough to do a full backup and restore, for this purpose
Ah. I didn’t know that, thanks!
You’re welcome!
Backup to a laptop if you need to.