Downsizing: Here's why I almost returned my iPhone 13 Mini

I almost returned my iPhone 13 mini while moving from my iPhone 11 Pro Max - because after over a week - I'm not joking - over a week of trying to transfer my data from my old iPhone to the 13 Mini, I still wasn't getting anywhere. It was frustrating me so much that I was 24 hours away from just selling my iPhone 13 mini and just ending my pain - it just shouldn't be this hard.

So, this video features me being kind of a little bit dumb but also a little bit smart fixing my own mistakes using iCloud+ photos, and it stars my iPhones, my Mac, iMazing, Gemini Photos, and the Apple iCloud+ 2TB edition.

This was a considerable downsizing exercise for me moving from a 512GB Pro Max monster to a light 128GB 13 Mini. But looking back, I made some fundamental errors that held me back - but I've learned what I did wrong - and I'm going to share with you the 3 big errors I made that made me almost return my iPhone 13 Mini - it was all just too hard. But, I also want to share how I fixed the problems, and what happened with my iPhone 13 mini.

Let me start with the least serious error and then move through to the one that almost led to me throwing the new iPhone out of the window, or at least putting it on sale.

0:00 Intro
1:29 The size of the problem
2:14 Mistake number 1 + fix
3:16 Mistake number 2 + fix
6:56 Mistake number 3 + fix
9:00 Was it worth it?

[sidv]

The quality of your video is just amazing. i just assumed it was one of those videos with 300k-400k. you deserve so much man. Best of luck

[slob]

The 13 mini isn’t designed with modern interfaces in mind imo