My new iPhone 16 ProMax arrived today, a full twelve days before it was expected. I now get to take my new gadget on our cruise. The camera has been improved in the five years since my last new iPhone...it now has an incredible 48 megapixels and 25x zoom. The few pictures I've taken with it are pretty spectacular.
Since the old phone took a bath, I've been dreading downloading all my apps--but like Apple said, "It was easy!" Yeah, I did not think they were right either. First off, I backed up the old phone and took screenshots of all my apps, then I brought it to my local Verizon store. There, Nick did all the work for me. That was a great deal. You can imagine my surprise, because it was NOT easy to download from iPhone 11 to iPhone 11, which I had done not too many days before. Today the transfer worked like a champ. It took 6 minutes to transfer the data. Then, with a little pang of regret, I erased all the stuff from the old phone and traded it in on this one.
I want to thank everyone who said "buy the new phone"--they were right. There's a lot of stuff I have to learn, but most of the stuff is not "new knowledge" but "updated knowledge" and that's pretty easy to learn, such as a button that was used for this is now used for that--that type of stuff. I already know the camera is beefier than the last camera. The battery life is supposed to be better too. I'll find out about all of that on the cruise, as my iPhone is calendar, camera, address book, and major communication device while we are away. I'll give it a good workout.
It's nice to know that this geezer can learn a new trick. The brain is not dead after all. I learned that if there is a Verizon store available, they will do a lot of the work. In Geezerville South there are Verizon stores--such is not the case in my northern location and I had to muddle my way thru the process with assistance from two folks, one in the Philippines and one in Vietnam. It's better to have face-to-face assistance. Don't be fearful of upgrading to a newer gadget. At least, at this location, there are folks who can help you. It's a good piece of information to have under your belt. Remember, we're all in this together.
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