Switching iPhones? Don't delete photos on the old iPhone yet

[@aczm1988]

Don’t understand why you don’t have more subscribers. Always watch your videos.

[@haardshah6082]

Same, love this channel. Regular videos and useful tips.

[@lordcharfield]

I know that it’s 2 years later, but to be fair, it’s a pretty healthy amount of subscribers!

[@confeticat]

its been 5 years and he is 1mill subscribers now

[@GregzVR]

I’m old school - I backup to iTunes at the end of every month. When switching phones, I backup the old one and restore to the new one, using that.

[@zollotech]

That’s works

[@John-pu5kz]

@@zollotech I'm curious to ask, If i permanently deleted a video from my old phones gallery and I then transfer my data from the old phone to a new phone, does its get carried over through a deleted file or something? I used Google drive and Samsung smart switch. My old phone was a lgmp260.

[@maxb6757]

So when I get a another new iPhone I don’t want any of my old photos. I want a fresh start. They won’t transfer over to my new phone right??

[@Sirhasandrine]

Yh I’ve been wondering tooo

[@kadefreeman4928]

LifeAsBS mine went over

[@Sirhasandrine]

Empty K Yh I just created a new Apple ID in the end

[@John-pu5kz]

If i permanently deleted a video from my old phone and I then do a transfer to a new phone does its get carried over through a deleted file or something?

[@kadefreeman4928]

JESUS IS LORD I don’t think so

[@NativeNorCal650]

So if I just turn off icloud photos on my old iphone, I can delete everything and m new iphone with pictures would be safe? Thanks.

[@alonsospassion924]

I’m wondering that too

[@MakeItALifeStyle-1]

Why turning off? Just do the steps in the video

[@MakeItALifeStyle-1]

You keep turn on and then reset factory the phone

[@KIP_KnowledgeIsPower]

@@MakeItALifeStyle-1 I’m wondering that myself as it appears if you don’t turn iCloud photos off 1st, it might erase photos/everything off your new phone once you wipe it too because as he demonstrated, having iCloud photos turned on & deleting just 1 photo from either phone will also automatically delete it from both phones because they’re syncing (mirroring) each other if they’re both signed into the same Apple ID/iCloud account (& any other devices signed into the same Apple ID with iCloud photos turned on too). So because he showed that happens when you delete just 1 photo if iCloud photos is turned on, it makes absolute sense that people are wanting to make 100% sure that so long as they have their iCloud photos setting on both/all devices turned off while doing this, that all of their photos & data will remain safe & in place on their new device (except the phone their trying to erase of course), more to the point, that that’s the only setting that needs to be changed to keep the new phone completely untouched when wiping the old one. Once it’s done, it’s done & not everyone uses iCloud back up’s & what not (I know I don’t) so people want/need to be super sure. I believe from what he’s saying, so long as you’ve already transferred your photos & data from your old phone over to your new phone by putting them beside each other when you 1st turn the new phone on & it does it’s full data transfer thing, I believe once that’s done (otherwise there’s nothing on the new phone to loose anyway if that hasn’t been done), then so long as you have iCloud Photos setting in your Apple ID settings turned off (I assume on both phones, at least while doing this), then you should be safe & everything that’s been transferred or added to your new phone should remain in tact because the phones aren’t syncing/sharing photos ect between them now…. I fully understand why people are concerned though. I think I understood that video pretty well but I’m still nervous, I’m about to do it though so I’ll let everyone know how it goes 😑🤞🏼… ⚠️ Just a suggestion. I just did this now first. I took stumbled upon & took 1 extra step before watching this video, trying to ensure syncing had definitely stopped between my phones so I didn’t loose anything on the new one when I wipe the old… I went on my NEW phone & removed my old phone as a device in “my devices” as I’ll be giving my old phone to my Mum once it’s wiped anyway. A pop up came up telling me that by removing my old phone as a device in my Apple ID (my new phone is listed there too now), my old phone would automatically be signed out of my Apple ID/iCloud account (it still kept me signed in on my new phone) & that basically, I would just have to log into my Apple ID/iCloud account again on the old phone if I wanted to use my Apple ID on it again (which I don’t) & I can also still wipe the phone without needing to be signed into any ID either so that’s just 1 extra step I just took to further ensure no syncing is still going on…. Okay guys, wish me luck, here I go, I’ll let you know soon 😬🤞🏼

[@clarifychi4106]

@@KIP_KnowledgeIsPower how’d it go?

[@juliawilkinson]

Thank you! This was just what I needed! Moved to an iPhone 12 mini from an iPhone 6S Plus.

[@jrr1560]

Hi aaron, thank you for all the videos you made, it is very helpful. I have question i recently bought iphone 11, and i transfer all my files and setting from my iphone 6. Now ny question is how to delete my old iphone 6, without deleting the files from my new iphone 11. Thank you

[@Weaintboyz1905]

I need help recently I bought a new phone and the contacts are in sync when I delete contacts from my old phone they also delete from my new phone I don’t know how to stop it from doing that will you make a separate video on it ?

[@pattyspeedmusic]

What if I don't want to transfer my old photos to my new phone but still keep them say on my MacBook Pro in my photo library? Once I transfer them onto my MacBook they're there and I can start clean with my new iPhone, right? I want to start fresh but I don't want to obviously lose my thousands of photos that are also currently backed up in iCloud.

[@busekocak8212]

İ want to keep the photos on my old iPhone however i accidentally added them to my new iPhone with iCloud how can a i reverse this and get rid of the photos on my new iPhone without loosing them on my old iPhone. Please help 😔

[@gabbyangelo2105]

Thanks Aaron for the tips it will really come in handy. Great job

[@linaalinaa1434]

Please answer!! If I want to erase everything in my old phone when I already transfer it to my new phone but when I erase them all in my old phone does the new phone got deleted all too?

[@gurthx]

Idk that’s what I’m trying to figure out Ik u posted this 2 months ago can u tell me what u did

[@loickb8318]

I wanted to know the same thing😐

[@linaalinaa1434]

@@gurthx I didn’t get a new phone yet😔

[@gurthx]

@@linaalinaa1434 damn

[@Geovny6rito]

If I transfer everything from my old phone to a new one can I delete all the stuff I had on my old phone?

[@223-d1h]

That’s my question 😂

[@mikeyseas]

U tried it?

[@Geovny6rito]

@@mikeyseas nope, never got around to doing it but I’m pretty sure you can if you have everything on your new phone you should be good

[@AngelSent2025_]

I have a question so I can turn off iCloud photos. On my old iPhone So it won’t sync on my new iPhone???. And if my data is already backed up from my old iPhone. I can delete the whole old phone. And it won’t delete the transfer on my new one ?

[@6058jeremysmith]

Thank you Aaron, how do I transfer all photos from google photos into the apple photos app so they are all in one place please ?

[@zollotech]

Use a computer and download them all and then drop them into photos.

[@6058jeremysmith]

zollotech .... thank you 🙏🏻

[@trayclark25]

What if I want to keep old photos on my old phone but start fresh with the new phone. If I delete them off my new phone it deletes from my old phone that I keep to store my photos

[@zollotech]

Correct. If you use iCloud Photos they are in sync. However if you turn off iCloud Photos on the old phone and download them all to the old phone when it asks they will no longer be in sync. But I would recommend you have them backed up elsewhere if you want to delete them from iCloud Photos

[@trayclark25]

@@zollotech but how do I keep it on the old and remove on the new just turn off cloud sync off on new phone

[@amayacharlize9017]

wish i saw this sooner Accidentally deleted my entire gallery from the past 2 years

[@harveyspecter766]

For one of your next videos, I would like to see, how I can charge my apple watch the right way :)

[@K03dufr0ob]

Sir, i want to delete the pictures from my icloud but not from my old iphone. I have a new iphone and i have 7000 pictures on my icloud. I dont want to take those pictures with me on the new iphone but sometimes i want memorys and then i take my old iphone to check the old pictures.

[@Neveah13]

Did you manage to figure it out? Cause I have the same problem at the moment

[@gladconst]

So if I completely wipe my old phone & I have backed up everything to iCloud which includes my photos; I won’t lose them from my new phone. Thank you

[@61Bossen]

Very good video. Short and to the point. 👍😄.

[@yaaxarr8977]

Great vid Aaron !!

[@shibbu1558]

i just want to knw that my old iphone was broke so the thing is if i buy a new iphon and log in with the same icloud id can i get my photos back and i also want to knw that can i also get my hidden photos if i backup my photos my english is not good i just tried to explain 🙏 help me

[@whiskkers9291]

@zollotech I have a old iPhone 6 that has photos on it of passed loved ones however I can't log into I tunes anymore nor can I further update this phone even though its still working. I want to upgrade and create a new apple account but don't want to loose the photos. Is there a way to move these from a I phone to a flash drive or some other method without having to go through apple i tunes? I tried pulling the phone files up on my desktop PC, I can see the phone but it shows all files as "empty" even though they are in there. Thanks

[@kaylastanshall9152]

The thing is, I did and nothing happened to my new one for weeks. Until just now when I reset it, all of them a permanently gone🤦🏻‍♀️😔

[@jbrinkerhoff54]

I’d like to keep my iphone7 as a storage device so I don’t fill my new iphone12 pro max with 70k photos. How would I achieve this? With iCloud they all want to go to new device. Thx

[@sydashti]

Hi, What did you do? I’ve got the same issue

[@josephnealeUKscratchcards]

Awesome video as always

[@zollotech]

thanks!

[@alesinnocent758]

Liked vid but when you delete it like that does it stay in back up or google pics?

[@kaia5025]

someone please help- i got a new phone 11 and transferred all my icloud data from the old phone to it. is there a way of deleting the photos on my new phone and keeping them on the old???

[@fatemao3127]

Hello.. did you figure it out?? I’m stuck on this and would really appreciate some answers!

[@kaia5025]

@@fatemao3127 Still dont know - sorry!!

[@zainabhassan9559]

But also if the phone is broken and you want the pics from the new one how do we do that ?

[@damarisfigueiredo2179]

What if I already have some photos on the new phone, but then I want to transfer the photos from the old phone to the new phone thought the iCloud since is a lot of photos. Will this delete the photos that I already had in my new phone?

[@zollotech]

If you have iCloud Photo Library on it will just automatically be on the new phone.

[@lindsay6246]

All my photos are uploaded to my new phone. When I log out on my iCloud on my old phone can I just erase the photos there?

[@lovely0th]

I did that , and I’m paying for iPhone iCloud storage , but when the pics transfered I noticed some pics are missing ,, why and how to fix that

[@minnbros]

Hi, I have one doubt. I want to factory reset my iPhone 6s, but when I do so, it should not affect the photos on my iPhone 13 How to do that?

[@aakashchrispin3749]

Thanks Man Really appreciate it .

[@johncedricvergabera133]

I gave away my ipad to my mom last minute so what I did was to go to Settings and click “Erase all content and settings”. Did it erase my browsing history, bookmarks and open tabs? Coz i wasn’t able to double check. I’m worried.

[@PerAllwin1963]

So do I select “Remove from IPhone” at the bottom then?

[@OFFICIALGSUP]

To tell me this if I want to delete pictures from my old phone but don’t have it can I still delete it from my new iPhone

[@eileencontreras188]

Hi so I transferred everything from my old phone to new phone. My daughter is getting the old phone hers is set up with her own iCloud and my contacts, texts and photos are already on my new device. For some reason though all my photos are still stored on the old phone and I went to iCloud to turn off her iCloud photos and it already was. So pictures are still stored so I’m lost how to remove.

[@Whoutalkin2bruh]

So if I took a picture on my old phone, is it possible to delete that picture on my new phone or on iCloud and have it be deleted off my old phone without touching my old phone?

[@congthanhngx]

why don't use the google photos app

[@zollotech]

I do sometimes, but it doesn’t offer the same privacy as iOS photos.

[@bobogus2018]

Google, lol,....more omniscient than God.

[@stephb3635]

Wait so if I turn off the iCloud photos can I still delete from the app and it won’t delete from the other phone

[@Allabouttpaige]

Thank you I’m definitely subscribing.

[@Bankai3474]

This is somewhat timely my dad just got a new iPhone but he wasn’t backing up his photos using iCloud. What is the easiest way to transfer his old photos without having to reset up his new iPhone also wanna keep the photos taken on the new iPhone. I want to do this without having to airdrop all of them haha

[@zollotech]

Just turn on iCloud photos

[@KraljHD]

I just backup my important photos to google drive and delete the rest since its mostly university notes.

[@JamesDea45]

I’m in a very sticky situation. I got my phone for Christmas and didn’t have an Apple ID at that point so my brother let me use his until I made mine. Well I made mine and tried to play/ update games and it won’t let me. Do I just have to start over if I get a new phone?

[@zollotech]

Create one and setup the phone with the new id. Then have him add you as a family member. That way you can still use any apps he bought.

[@JamesDea45]

zollotech thank you! Will that do anything else or is it just for apps

[@dediago1]

Aaron please help me I deleted the pics from my old phone and delete them also from my recently deleted pics. r gone. Is driving me crazy. I can’t recover them. I even bought a software called iMyfone D-back but I dint know how to use it properly

[@03rdds47]

Did you ever find a way?

[@MoeSzn19]

my old iphone doesnt work i cant put my password cuz my screen is messed up cuz I cant touch anything is there any other way to do it

[@tehquan1]

Is iCloud backup will also backup all the apps?

[@A10TOES]

"Everything" on my old iPhone 6 appeared on my new iPhone Xs Max, of course I did a total backup to the cloud before I ever set up my new phone.

[@editsbyl4ktt]

Why if i delete photos on this phone its deleting too on my other phonee

[@BobbiWeb]

What if you log out of your Apple ID on the phone you're no longer going to use

[@A10TOES]

Reset old phone to factory settings, this won't affect your apple log in on the new phone.

[@curtissmith6597]

Great video

[@chikachuo]

So all I need to do is turn of the I cloud on m old phone okay 😧

[@zzzash]

What if u dont want the photos of ur old phone?

[@sting5404]

Will my game won't get deleted

[@timkellermann8279]

Hey man, my iphone X battery is dying so fast since IOS12 Beta 6... My phone gets hot when doung multiple things like calling and scrolling through instagram, at the same time... What can I do?? My phone lastet 1 hour and 24 minutes until it died... Im at 99% battery health.... help pls

[@zollotech]

Nothing except try closing apps or rebooting. Otherwise you have to wait for the next beta. It’s just part of testing beta software.

[@timkellermann8279]

zollotech okay thank you, when is the next beta going to be released?

[@A10TOES]

@@timkellermann8279 who knows when, but I do know my iphone 6 battery lasted a lot longer than my Xs Max battery has.

[@187achilles]

How do I delete storage on my old iPhone from my new iPhone.? It’s taking up all my storage on my new iPhone and I can’t download anything.

[@SnickerdoodleThePup]

Yes, I’ve been wondering how to do this as well. I’m seeing multiple people asking the question, but no answer so far.

[@emiliogonzalez8236]

What if you delete it from the other phone?

[@shadmaan2]

When i am turning off icloud photos, there is no option coming to remove from iphone or delete photos and videos. What should i do now ?

[@threedollaya8860]

me too

[@fadez1]

U are a LIFESAVER

[@daniellehubinger1447]

What will happen if I completely wipe both phones?

[@IndPolCom]

Thanks

[@BobbiWeb]

What if you log out of your Apple ID on the phone that you're no longer going to use. will it disconnect from the pictures in iCloud. will you still have to delete stuff on the phone or will it disappear after you log out of your Apple ID

[@zollotech]

It should disappear, but you should turn off iCloud features such as messages and FaceTime first.

[@TheRealMerBer]

For the user asking about accessing Google photos, you can download Google photos to your iPhone & sign into your Google account. Google makes it that simple. I can't believe the degree to which Apple complicates the most basic of functions! I use Android but since my son uses Apple, I use one of his old iPhones to manage some things for him. Apple's worst offense is not only complicating actions for seemingly no reason, but also showing vague, misleading warnings that cause users to hesitate & second guess what they're about to do (I'm willing to bet that's the cause for the majority of views here) When I need to do something simple, such as access content on my device & in my cloud storage in order to delete, or maybe just to turn on/off sync... on my Android it's pretty much a straightforward, quick action without the urge to bang my head against the wall in frustration, but when attempting the equivalent action on Apple, I become so frustrated and annoyed that I consider just buying more storage so I don't have to deal with it - Yeah, I'm going there. When I stated above that Apple complicates things for seemingly no reason, well.. there's always a reason, and more often than not, money is at the root. We all know that Apple's success wasn't due to superior products, but to the genius marketing that Steve Jobs brought to the company. Over the years, marketing can only do so much, and other strategies played out. Such as when, after so many years of new features added with each new iPhone launch, the number of people rushing to buy the newest iPhone decreased because they simply didn't feel the need, they were happy with what they were using. I remember how Apple solved that issue! Hint: class action lawsuit revealing that Apple was slowing older phones as newer models emerged. So... I might be wrong, but I certainly wouldn't be surprised to learn that Apple decided to focus on "improving" another aspect of their business model, storage plans (note, improving for Apple, not for users) Why not, right? The need for more storage will only grow as the years go on, so why not complicate things like storage management.. things that, by paying just another few bucks a month, afford people the luxury of not having to actually "manage" anything.

[@moewaka985]

Thank you so much for this.

[@amitkumarpanda8151]

I have accidentally turned on the iCloud photo back up now all my photos are in iCloud. But now I dnt want to keep my photos in iCloud. How could I recover my photos..??

[@zollotech]

All you have to do is what I show in the beginning of the video where you turn off iCloud photos and then tap on download them to your phone

[@amitkumarpanda8151]

Thank you Aaron..🙂

[@mohamedlhagag]

I have deleted my photos from my new iphone and then they have been deleted from my old iphone how can i bring them back ??

[@zollotech]

You can’t unless they are in the deleted folder.

[@AngelSent2025_]

@zollotech so when I turn off iCloud photos that’s sync on my old iPhone 11 and then reset and delete the iPhone. Will it all remain on my new iPhone ? I backed it up on my iPhone 11.

[@Mark-sy2cy]

I have a question: my sister got a new iPhone from the iPhone 5c to the iPhone 8+. She would like to know how to transfer her photos from the 5c to the new iPhone but she already has the new iPhone set up with no photos. Is their a solution for this?

[@zollotech]

Turn iCloud photos on on the old device. It will then upload everything to the cloud. Then turn it on on the new device and they will all appear.

[@Bryannn84]

Unfortunately I did this and lost 2 years worth of photos 😢

[@2REACHER5]

So that will only delete photos on old phone NOT new phone

[@OldCampos]

And that's why I use Google Photos and Flickr to backup all my photos

[@samanteater8853]

I only see my recent pictures

[@imachickenloloriginal]

iCloud photos is a load of shite i turn it off completely you can never download any photos or videos

[@jawidnaderi4191]

Hi sir I want your personal email have to talk to you thanks

[@zollotech]

You can contact me through my website

[@danieljustlaw5930]

Nice talks

[@hamidzaidi4431]

How can you delete photos that have been accidentally backed up from old device to the new one

[@VanJR.]

Great video

[@brandonwhite9591]

great video