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Why do you require a passcode of your previous iPhone when you sign in

Why do you require a passcode of your previous iPhone when you sign in?


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iPad 2, iOS 9

Posted on Apr 23, 2022 12:53 PM

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Posted on Apr 23, 2022 1:36 PM

If you just transferred data from the old phone to the new phone, it is to unlock the encrypted data from the old phone.


If you see an option to reset encrypted data, several people have posted that they did that and lost little to no data.

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Why do you require a passcode of your previous iPhone when you sign in

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