Transferring everything off of iPhone

How do I transfer and preserve everything off of my husband’s phone ? He passed away and I desperately want to keep all of his phone. The computer he may (or may not have) paired with is completely inoperable. I have his passcode to get in.

I need to send phone back to sprint or pay $600 to want to send phone back.

help 🥺

iPhone XS

Posted on Aug 6, 2021 7:42 AM

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Posted on Aug 6, 2021 2:24 PM

You may want to make a complete backup. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204136 that you can restore at a later date (you will not be able to access individual items in the backup).


Otherwise, you'll probably want to transfer photos, contacts, maybe a handful of other things. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/sync-photos-to-your-device-mchl4af095d3/mac


You may want to enable iCloud features, if not already, to offload the most important items into the cloud (which you can later access at iCloud.com). https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/set-up-icloud-mmfc0f1e2a/icloud



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Aug 6, 2021 2:24 PM in response to Truth-will-out

You may want to make a complete backup. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204136 that you can restore at a later date (you will not be able to access individual items in the backup).


Otherwise, you'll probably want to transfer photos, contacts, maybe a handful of other things. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/sync-photos-to-your-device-mchl4af095d3/mac


You may want to enable iCloud features, if not already, to offload the most important items into the cloud (which you can later access at iCloud.com). https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/set-up-icloud-mmfc0f1e2a/icloud



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