Redoing

[pcslookout]

How often do you redo your iPhone or iPad ?

 

[JasonCoder]

Never. Sounds like a PITA

 

[Rakehellion]

I'm forced to Every year in September. :awe:

 

[Tegeril]

Never. I just restore from backup with every new phone, since the launch iPhone. Works great

 

[HiroThreading]

Been using the same backup and Apple ID basically going back to the iPhone 4. I'm currently on the iPhone 6s.

 

[pcslookout]

Well I did but only to fix a problem.

 

[bartsmanj87]

What exactly do you mean by redo? Do the "Erase all content and settings" and just start fresh?

I've never tried that, although I love setting up a new iPad / iPhone instead of restoring from a backup. Feels good.

 

[pcslookout]

What exactly do you mean by redo? Do the "Erase all content and settings" and just start fresh?

I've never tried that, although I love setting up a new iPad / iPhone instead of restoring from a backup. Feels good.

Yes.

 

[Beer4Me]

NEVER. Though when El Capitan dropped, I decided to do a fresh install, and restore my documents from Time Machine. Does that count?

 

[Artdeco]

Rarely, just clear the cache every once in a while...

 

[Spicedaddy]

About once a year, usually after the new iOS comes out. I don't keep much stuff on my iPhone/iPad, so it doesn't take long. A clean install minimizes bugs and claims back the mysterious "Other" space in storage.

 

[sxr7171]

So when when my iPhone started having problems and low battery life the genius said I have to reinstall. I wondered what makes this different from Windows 98. But in all seriousness iOS quality is getting worse by the year as it gets more bloated.

If you want the phone to perform consistently near peak performance I'd say once every 6 months to a year. Sometimes you can get back performance by deleting all text messages.

Reinstalling isn't that painful now that iCloud keychain can restore all your passwords. But the one huge thing they could do is just store the layout of your apps. Sitting there and redownloading your apps is painful enough but putting them back into folders is just horrible. It should just remember your layout and apps and offer to redownload form the app store.

 

[sxr7171]

NEVER. Though when El Capitan dropped, I decided to do a fresh install, and restore my documents from Time Machine. Does that count?

That counts. While it may have restored your documents you still have a whole host of hassles setting the machine back up.