![]() It is useful to know, the transfer tool doesn’t actually manipulate the original iPhone backup file. Step 6: Start the Decipher Activity Transfer tool. Step 5: Unplug your old iPhone from iTunes. Step 4: Open iTunes and make a backup of the old iPhone, ensuring that you use an encrypted iPhone backup, which also backs up, the private activity data. ![]() Step 3: Go to the Apple Watch app, and unpair the Watch with your old iPhone, which takes a backup of the existing Apple Watch information and stores it on iPhone Step 2: Ensure your old iPhone is running iOS 8.2 or higher Step 1: Download the Decipher Activity Transfer tool (OS X, Windows) My iTunes was updated to 12.5.1.21 (most recent). ![]() I moved from an iPhone 6s on iOS 10.0.1 and Apple Watch Sport on watchOS 3 to the new iPhone 7, which shipped with iOS 10.0 (note the downgraded iOS version). If you are looking for a personal benchmark, I upgraded my existing devices before switching to my iPhone 7. This is a fairly lengthy process, but the steps are very simple.Īccording to the developer, the described process will work with any version of iOS 8.2+ or watchOS 1+. To most easily perform the transfer, I recommend watching the Decipher Tools tutorial video through once, then start the video over and do the process while following the video. I personally confirm it worked amazingly well when moving from my iPhone 6s to iPhone 7. The following process uses the Decipher Activity Transfer tool, which was just launched by Decipher Tools, and will take about 10-15 minutes. Simply, pairing your Apple Watch with your new iPhone, doesn’t give your new iPhone the activity data, because the data is not stored on Apple Watch. The only way to get Activity.app and Health.app data on your new iPhone, is restoring from an encrypted iCloud or iTunes backup file. Apple Watch only temporarily stores Activity data until it can offload it to the iPhone. The Activity.app data, therefore is not stored directly on the Apple Watch. All Activity.app data is calculated by Apple Watch, but stored on the iPhone. ![]() The process outlined in the article works because of a specific way the Activity and Health apps information is stored. If you want to move all of your device information from one device to the next, or only your Health data, consult Christian’s article for both options. Essentially, this is Method #3, in addition to the previous two. To reiterate, the method described below will allow you to move Activity and Health apps information to a new device, but no other information. Instead, only an encrypted backup will maintain the integrity of any health-related information, for security reasons. Apple does not provide a way to sync this information via an iCloud account. All of those Activity Rings you worked so hard to close and medals you’ve won, will be completely deleted if you start with a fresh iPhone and choose to not restore from backup. Unfortunately, with the addition of the Activity and Health Apps, when transitioning to a new iPhone, things can be a little more complicated without a backup. Additional licensing is available for SMS/iMessage, Contacts, Voicemail, Voice Memo, Camera Roll Photos and Videos, Safari Bookmarks, Accessibility Preferences, Notes, Call History, Home screen icon layout, all apps. Transferring Health, Fitness, and Watch Data is free. The following article has been updated in the necessary locations, to ensure the tutorial is correct.Ī big change to the tool, is a new ability to save and transfer many additional datasets, not offered by a standard iPhone backup file. When iOS 10 and watchOS 3 launched alongside iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2, we personally tested the new Decipher tool for upgrade compatibility. Method #2: backing up your old device to iCloud or iTunes and restoring from backup, as I’ve described above.īut, what if you want both your Activity and Health data, but a fresh setup too? Step inside to learn how to install both, yet only, your previous device’s Activity and Health data on your new iPhone. Method #1: use a third-party app to import your Health data, but it lacks Activity logs. Most laypeople, almost always choose to restore new iPhones from their backups however, more technically inclined concerned people tend to start with a fresh iPhone and do not restore from backup to prevent carrying over any unwanted information.Įarlier this week Christian highlighted two methods for upgrading to a new device and retaining your Activity and Health data. Apple ensures it is easy to move from a fully loaded and setup device to a completely fresh iPhone with the same information, using their backup options. Transitioning to a new iPhone is made simple by iCloud backups, iTunes, and a few clicks or taps.
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