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iPhone 13 mini
Here on the blog I digress quite often, so this time it will be how I decided to upgrade my old iPhone SE from 2017 on this year's Black Friday.
Long story short, I don't want to migrate do Android (yet?), even the smallest iPhone 14 is too big for me, rumor has it another mini iPhone may never come, so this form factor won't be any newer, so why wait?
iPhone 13 mini
The transition would have been smooth, but quite a few of apps I used were pulled out of AppStore, so for about three days I tried (and failed) to move them to the new phone. I even purchased a license of iMazing, but it was no help either – apps were either 32-bit or otherwise unsupported by the current iOS version.
So I finally wiped the new phone and used the intended way of wirelessly transfer everything from my old iPhone to the new one. The process looked like magic to me, to be honest.
I have to admit I'm more happy with the investment than I anticipated. While the body is only slightly bigger, thanks to edge-to-edge display the screen size difference is astonishing. I quickly adapted to the size, the 4" screen of SE now looks so tiny! :-)
iPhone SE vs iPhone 13 mini
On SE I had Touch ID difficulties more often than I would like and my earlier attempt to refresh stored fingerprints resulted in auth resets and lock-up from my bank app (I didn't have backup 2FA method for some reason), so I wasn't keen to do it again. But Face ID is quick and easy, it's so seamless it makes me joyful :-)
It was good I had the SE around, because I had to migrate all the bank and auth apps, this time without a lockup only just because I was able to use the “previous” app on the SE.
I didn't want to migrate to Android mainly because of the long history of various app data I collected – I've been an iPhone user for over a decade now. But several apps wasn't compatible with the current iOS version, so I lost that anyway. With the new phone I'm more careful about data formats and migration options. I'm still waiting for my ideal phone and if it's Android or Windows, so be it.