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PhotoHokieNC

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Most solemn promise: absolutely the final new phone post.


New devices are fully up and running and old phones are scrubbed and ready to send back ($81 Spectrum credit per device, free shipping).

We thought this morning we'd take our individual apps off the old phones, then delete phone/mail contacts.

App deleting worked fine but deleting contacts is not possible since iCloud so tightly pairs both phones. Even though the old phones were not backed up in the Cloud any more, and with the new phones shut off, when a contact was removed from the old phones, that one still came off the new phones.

Countless variations of turning iCloud off & on on each device or any other "logical" controls that might keep the old and new devices separate, whatever contact was removed from one came off the other.

Finally, since we were tasked with scrubbing the old phones before returning them, we just turned off our new phones and erased all the data on the old. Going straight to "Erase" (settings, general, reset, erase all), but not using "Upload data to Cloud". Took a few minutes. New phones are fully intact (guess that means the old devices were neutered?)

This was the only time we ever used the Cloud. It's enormously controlling and invasive and we're glad to not have any immediate need for it again. Many here probably already know all this far better than we ever will, but take this FWIW. Cheers.




[Post edited by PhotoHokieNC at 02/24/2020 06:54AM]

Posted: 02/23/2020 at 11:15AM



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