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my wife has her old iphone 5S, that we want to use for our music via Spotify and/or XM.
Do we need to delete all old data on the phone to do this?
apple usually has great written processes so that would be great.
You don’t need to delete old data, although you can if you want to if you need the space. It will work fine as what is essentially an iPod Touch. You can sync it to iTunes to access your music library, use it with streaming services.
The only “quirk” is if you ever reset the phone to factory settings you will need to have a SIM card in it to reactivate the phone. It can be an “expired” SIM that you just left in the phone when you retired it, or you can temporarily move a SIM from a working phone. The SIM only needs to be in the phone for the few minutes until activation completes.
You don’t need to delete old data, although you can if you want to if you need the space. It will work fine as what is essentially an iPod Touch. You can sync it to iTunes to access your music library, use it with streaming services.
The only “quirk” is if you ever reset the phone to factory settings you will need to have a SIM card in it to reactivate the phone. It can be an “expired” SIM that you just left in the phone when you retired it, or you can temporarily move a SIM from a working phone. The SIM only needs to be in the phone for the few minutes until activation completes.
using old iphone for music only (WiFi) - iphone 5S
