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		KennyBlanken on Jan 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phon... You can walk into an Apple store and walk out with a replacement. If you had backups running to your Mac or PC (which can happen over WiFi automatically when both the phone and mac are on line power), you've got a whole-device backup that will have you up and running as fast as it takes the backup to restore.

pjerem on Jan 25, 2022 [–]

If you backup to iCloud, you can even walk out with the phone showing a progress bar while it is restoring to the exact state you left the older.

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