New iPhone ordered/swapping Question

That page is pretty much what I was thinking the process would be. It does not address the instructions I received from AT&T regarding the activation of the new phone...

Where in the process does that fall? Instructions said to log in to my AT&T account to activate the new one when it arrives...

Thanks! That was the final piece I was looking for!

I'm less of than thrilled with the experience..

I unboxed iphone 6 plus. Swapped in my sim and connected to my Macabook Pro with fresh full backup to iTunes of my iPhone 6.

first- iPhone 6+ had to update to iOS 8.3. Check

then, iTunes allowed me to "restore from backup" (After turning off Find My iPhone?) check

30 minutes later, phone reboots and supposedly is done. Interesting that all that was apparently put on phone after all of that was my email accounts, contacts and 64 videos (I didn't have but 3 videos on my iPhone 6...). None the f my music showed up. Not a single app showed up.

30 minutes of "restoring"... Ugh. What was the point?

DO I actually HAVE to activate the new sim, or can I just swap over her sim from her current iPhone 4S?

Michael Battenfield wrote:

Here is the scenario:

I bought an iPhone 6 on first day last year. At the time I didn't think I wanted the larger 6+.

My wife's iPhone 4S is on its last legs and finally said the other day its time for a new one, but she doesn't want a 6+. She likes my 6...

I ordered a 6+, it should be here in a couple of days.

Here is what I need to accomplish:

I am going to get the new 6+

My wife wants my 6

So - what is the simplest method to accomplish this? The new phone will come with a new microSIM (AT&T).

*I think step 1 is a full backup of both iPhones."

Do I activate the new phone when it comes in, THEN do the swap with my current SIM? Or should I put in my current SIM and THEN activate it?

I assume the rest (data/apps/etc) all will be the last step on both phones - as a restore from backup?

SIgh...and I cannot get my email accounts to work right with the iPhone 6 plus... I enter password, and get this. I'm 100% certain password is correct, I just tried it on another device. Arrrggghhh!!!!

IIt's the correct password because with a wrong password, it won't do anything but tell me the password is incorrect. It takes me to the following screen to ask for permission for iOS to have access to several things. It's upon approval of this that I get the pop up of the email address mismatch...

Yes - was the one with the date and time stamp just before I swapped the SIM and did the iOS update not he 6plus.

Well - I "solved" the email issue - by deleting accounts and just setting them up anew... What was the point of the info being "backed up and restored"... if it was gonna get hosed somehow in the process? SMH

So I'm down to basically my contacts and some photos being restored - and videos that have been on my MacBook Pro, but not on my iPhone... until now....?