Notes In the Before you restore section theyll have you making a backup to your computer. You probably wont need it, because you already checked that your new phone is working above and that its backing up to i. Cloud, BUT go ahead and do it any way. Just a bit of added security for the first few days of this transition. When you backup you may get a message that looks like this Most folks by this point no longer backup their apps to i. Tunes on their computers because apps are always available to re download from the purchased section in the App Store. So you can in most cases, choose Dont Back Up Apps, the only exception being a more geeky edge case in which you know you have an app that is no longer available on the store and its one that your kid has to have and didnt make the transition to your new i. Phone. Thats pretty rare, but if it applies go ahead and back up. As you follow the instructions in the Apple support article above, youll see the Apple logo and the updating bars on the phone and then at the end on i. Tunes youll see 2 options restore from backup or setup as a new i. Phone. You want the latter, because remember clean slate Step 3 HelloHolaSalut Setting up. So one of the first steps I like to take in i. Tunes is to rename the i. Phone so that 1 theres no confusion whose i. Pod this is later and 2add some additional information in case its lost. Its easy just double click on the name of the i. Phone in the top left, itll turn blue, and then type the name of your kidor kids, my boys share this device. If lost please call Your phone number. Itll look like this Okay now, return to the phone youll see the familiar Apple Hello, Hola, etc screen So, then Slide to start. Choose your Wi fi network and connect. Enable location services. The next screen is Apple ID, lets stop a moment and talk about this Yes, if youve come this far its time for your little person to have their own Apple ID. We want them to have an Apple ID not because we want them to use it to BUY stuff on i. Tunes or the App Store well set that to your account BUT so that they can BACKUP the devices data to i. Cloud with their own free 5. GB. Luckily, with i. OS 8 arrived the feature to make accounts for folks 1. The adult as you sometimes like to think of yourself. The set up screens will walk you through this, but theres also this article in case you want to do it after the set up. But why put off till tomorrow what you can, Ben Franklin saying, Ben Franklin sayingI would take this opportunity to create an i. Cloud email account for them as well to use as their Apple ID login. Its free and you should be the sole owner of the password unless theyre older and deemed responsible. Create a passcode My boys are so used to Mom and Dads phones having a passcode they demanded to have one on their own. Proud parenting moment. I think its a good idea agree on one together and add it here. Use SiriDont Use Siri Your call. My boys havent discovered this, but I can see teaching them dictation at one point.