[xvector]

You can’t be serious? You think it would be reasonable from a security perspective if Apple was capable of transferring your data?

[jdsully]

They used to do that a long time ago. You would sit there with them as they transferred it off your old machine.

[xvector]

> They used to do that a long time ago.

Pretty happy they don't do that anymore, then. It sounds terrible for security.

[jdsully]

All they did was hook your old mac up to your new one with a cable and run the standard software. You sat with them and watched.

There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk.

[xvector]

> There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk.

Of course there's a security risk. The security model of both the Macs and the iPhones have significantly improved. The hardware security models make this a difficult engineering task - and a dangerous one.

[jdsully]

The modern day equivalent would be walking you through backing up to iCloud and restoring from iCloud. It’s not a security risk unless iCloud is one already.

[thirdsun]

What you describe sounds like a huge waste of everybody's time. Furthermore data migration on mobile devices mostly happens via iCloud these days - there's really no need to do that in store. It's part of the onboarding process whenever you boot up a new iOS device.

[jdsully]

A waste if you know what your doing.

For my Grandpa who’d never figure it out on his own it was a real benefit.