Experience was all around terrible yesterday, due to multiple parties.
At the Apple Store the line was fine. They moved everyone with 8am reservations up to the front of the line and I was being helped by 835. So a little late but I'm not bothered in the slightest. I get in and the chick is a little confused about the app for the iUP. So she's making her way through it, nice and apologetic as heck, claims they were just trained on this version this morning. And the app is glitchy. It OCRs my serial number but won't input it into the text entry. The app tells me to sign out of iCloud and wipe my phone. I'm terrified to do this because of 2FA. But now she's showing me the app saying it can't proceed because that serial number is still signed in (even though I turned off FMi before I even got to the store). So I log out.. Then she goes to ring up the new phone and the Verifone accessory won't scan it. She tries to enter the number in manually but if you look at the numbers on the back of the box, the small ones... yeah.. so it spit back with "invalid entry" on the first of three, so she asked me if she could go in back and get a new device. She comes back, and we start the process from scratch, literally. Ok, so 5 mins later this device scans the new phone in fine (new device still wouldn't enter my OCRed serial number) and we're done. Again, the Apple Store employee was very nice and tried her best with all of the obstacles tossed at her. So I am getting close to having to leave for a meeting I am running, so I quick run through the restore to at least start it. I get prompted for a software update (10.0.1). Fml. So I start the update and leave figuring I would just restore at work. As I'm driving to work my phone reboots as part of the upgrade and doesn't come back on. So as I'm driving I am trying to hold down power. Hold down power and home. Nothing. So I get to work, lead my meeting. Then look to see how to do DFU on the 7. FYI it's now power and vol down. So it comes on and finishes the upgrade. Now I know I'm blocked at work because they block iCloud. So at lunch I go to mcdonalds and they say restore is about 2 hours. Fuck. So I go back to work and there's only one mifi around. So I try using that and it reboots sporadically every 5 minutes or so. So I go all day without my phone, get home and restore. And it takes over an hour. Afterward of course I go through the very slow and unstable period as it is restoring all of my apps and music.
Things I would do differently
Take the morning off. I need to keep remembering this. Restoring an iPhone is an hour plus long task.
Backup to iTunes first. For emergency restores and convenience iCloud will always be my default. But if you know you need a backup and restore, USB is insanely faster.
I actually knew how to deal with Apple Watch from last year but forgot here. Need to remember that. Fortunately it wasn't super bad. I just lost my activity for the day.
All in all my worst new iPhone experience, and I've had everyone since the 3GS aside from the 4 and 5. A little because of Apple, a lot because of a long series of unfortunate events.
As for the phone. Matte black is by far the best. The true stealth bomber (sorry 5). New home "area" is great. Feels like a button and responsive as hell. I realized lack of headphone port only affects me one place. I sometimes use my earbuds in my work laptop so now I would have to have two pair. Aside from that the removal of the port won't affect me at all. I just let the phone restore and index last night so I haven't played with the screen or camera yet. Will mess with those today.
At the Apple Store the line was fine. They moved everyone with 8am reservations up to the front of the line and I was being helped by 835. So a little late but I'm not bothered in the slightest. I get in and the chick is a little confused about the app for the iUP. So she's making her way through it, nice and apologetic as heck, claims they were just trained on this version this morning. And the app is glitchy. It OCRs my serial number but won't input it into the text entry. The app tells me to sign out of iCloud and wipe my phone. I'm terrified to do this because of 2FA. But now she's showing me the app saying it can't proceed because that serial number is still signed in (even though I turned off FMi before I even got to the store). So I log out.. Then she goes to ring up the new phone and the Verifone accessory won't scan it. She tries to enter the number in manually but if you look at the numbers on the back of the box, the small ones... yeah.. so it spit back with "invalid entry" on the first of three, so she asked me if she could go in back and get a new device. She comes back, and we start the process from scratch, literally. Ok, so 5 mins later this device scans the new phone in fine (new device still wouldn't enter my OCRed serial number) and we're done. Again, the Apple Store employee was very nice and tried her best with all of the obstacles tossed at her. So I am getting close to having to leave for a meeting I am running, so I quick run through the restore to at least start it. I get prompted for a software update (10.0.1). Fml. So I start the update and leave figuring I would just restore at work. As I'm driving to work my phone reboots as part of the upgrade and doesn't come back on. So as I'm driving I am trying to hold down power. Hold down power and home. Nothing. So I get to work, lead my meeting. Then look to see how to do DFU on the 7. FYI it's now power and vol down. So it comes on and finishes the upgrade. Now I know I'm blocked at work because they block iCloud. So at lunch I go to mcdonalds and they say restore is about 2 hours. Fuck. So I go back to work and there's only one mifi around. So I try using that and it reboots sporadically every 5 minutes or so. So I go all day without my phone, get home and restore. And it takes over an hour. Afterward of course I go through the very slow and unstable period as it is restoring all of my apps and music.
Things I would do differently
Take the morning off. I need to keep remembering this. Restoring an iPhone is an hour plus long task.
Backup to iTunes first. For emergency restores and convenience iCloud will always be my default. But if you know you need a backup and restore, USB is insanely faster.
I actually knew how to deal with Apple Watch from last year but forgot here. Need to remember that. Fortunately it wasn't super bad. I just lost my activity for the day.
All in all my worst new iPhone experience, and I've had everyone since the 3GS aside from the 4 and 5. A little because of Apple, a lot because of a long series of unfortunate events.
As for the phone. Matte black is by far the best. The true stealth bomber (sorry 5). New home "area" is great. Feels like a button and responsive as hell. I realized lack of headphone port only affects me one place. I sometimes use my earbuds in my work laptop so now I would have to have two pair. Aside from that the removal of the port won't affect me at all. I just let the phone restore and index last night so I haven't played with the screen or camera yet. Will mess with those today.
Oh. God. Yes. Coming from any other phone, the first time you get a call on the 6s/7, it freaks you out. And then after a day you say "I am NEVER going back to those 20 year old pager vibrators again!!!"
