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How can you avoid transferring needless large volumes of 'Documents & Data' when setting up a new iPhone from backup?

When setting up a new iPhone from a backup, how can you avoid transferring the large volume of 'Documents & Data' to the new phone to save memory? Can you select specifically what data is transferred?


Alternatively, setting up the phone as a new device would be one solution, but I would rather prefer not to lose the 10+yrs of settings tinkering, which has tailored my iPhone to how I like to use the phone.

Posted on Sep 12, 2022 7:09 AM

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Posted on Sep 12, 2022 7:34 AM

Over that 10+ years a lot of those settings have changed.


On your current phone go in and remove apps/files with data that you do not want to cut down on storage size then set up the new iPhone.

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How can you avoid transferring needless large volumes of 'Documents & Data' when setting up a new iPhone from backup?

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