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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
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Get to the local Apple store. They indeed have my replacement phone. But they don't want to let me transfer all my data (ESIM, data, Signal history, etc); they want me to restore from backup (which isn't possible for Signal history). After some discussion with manager, they let me do it.
Takes *six* hours. Staff is hovering over me the whole time like they're worried I'm going to break something. Eventually I finish and do go home with a new working handset.
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