r/iMazing

I live in India. I am going to buy a new iPhone, probably 17 Pro Max or 18 Pro Max if I stay in US till then. Currently I have iPhone 13 Pro with eSIM. I don't use cloud backup since my data is around 60 GB. So I regularly do a backup on my Windows PC through iTunes.

So after buying the new phone, I plan to set it up at home when I Reach there. My question:

How to go about it? Can I transfer my old phone data to new phone by Bluetooth pairing? Airtel doesn't allow direct eSim transfer. Is it possible to restore backup or do a quick transfer of data without first transferring the eSim? or should I first transfer eSim and then restore backup? my fear of doing this is that it might botch up my eSIM.

Thanks.

I was thinking about signing up for imazing, but the extremely odd subscription model is giving me pause. I have read all their articles on the subject, so I’m hoping an iMazing mod doesn’t refer to those articles or give me a generic answer.

Bottom line questions…

1. Am I right to interpret iMazing will make an exception and unlink my old phone if it breaks or gets lost — and then allow me to link my new phone without charge?

2. What if I sign up for an iMazing subscription and then 3 days later I upgrade my phone because my phone is getting old and slow? Does that mean I just paid a yearly subscription for 3 days of use, then a 270 day waiting period?

3. What if I am a yearly subscriber to iMazing for 3 years. I decide to upgrade my phone. does that mean I have to sign up for two yearly subscription that year and can’t just swap my phones in the current subscription?

Can anyone help me make sense of this madness? It seems it would be easy enough to just offer 1 courtesy swap per year without needing to contact support. and then after that, you have to contact support.

Also, there should be unlimited (or up to 3) swaps per year due to lost/broken. And 1 swap per year due to upgrade.

This seems like a fair compromise. Why does iMazing make their subscription model so weird to the point I would have already signed up if it wasn’t so weird… so they are just costing their business money by scaring away subscribers?

I don’t like posting about Touchcopy here in iMazing. I will say my wife has iMazing & I use it & it’s great. But, I’m very interested in Touchcopy & as we know there is no Touchcopy group. So I have one question.

We know we can move mp3 audio files aka music files from iPhone to MacBook.

But here’s my question can it work the other way? Can I move a mp3 audio file aka music file from my MacBook to my iPhone & it go straight to the music app on my iPhone?

Thank you.