How to Activate iPhone 8

“I just received my new iPhone this morning, how could i activate my iPhone 8?”



iPhone is released a week ago with new feature wireless charging and some other new feature, which is very popular now, and many people are thinking about getting one. But do you know how to activate your iPhone 8 when you get it? Now see below steps and activate your iPhone 8.

Please note that you need to backup your old iPhone data before activate your iPhone 8, if you don’t know how to do it, please refer to second part and later.

Activate iPhone 8

Now we’ll see how to activate your iPhone 8, see below steps.

1.press and hold on power button on your iPhone 8 for a while to open it, when you see “Slide to set up” on your home screen, slide it to do set up.

2.then it will need you to choose language, country and region ect, choose the correct one.

3.now connect your iPhone 8 with cellular network or Wifi, and you can disable or enable the location service.

4.Then you can set up your Touch ID with fingerprint and password, then you can choose to transfer your old iPhone messages from iTunes, iCloud or set up as a new phone.



Backup Old iPhone Data with iTunes and iCloud

If you want to backup all your old iPhone data, you can choose iTunes and iCloud to help you with it, but it doesn’t support us to backup them selectively.

For iTunes:

1.Launching your iTunes, connect your old iPhone with PC.

2.Go to Files--Summary, then tap on “Backup Now” on the right page, and confirm with “Backup”.



For iCloud:

1.Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--iCloud.

2.Log in it with your Apple ID and password, then turn on iCloud driver, and tap on “Backup”, then confirm with “Backup Now”.

Remark: when our iCloud storage is full, it won’t allow us to do any backup.

Backup Old iPhone Data with iRefone

If you want to backup your old iPhone data selectively, iRefone is a good choice.

iRefone can not only help us backup iPhone data, it can also help us recover more than 16 kinds of files, including contacts, notes, messages, photos, reminders, calendars, WeChat messages ect, even you did no backup. And it can recover them with three recovery mode, that is Recover from iOS Device, Recover from iTunes Backup and Recover from iCloud Backup.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.



Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC. Choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



Step 2. Then we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “Notes” icon, and it will be scanned by the software.



Step 3. Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you can preview and choose notes you need to backup, tap on “Recover to PC”.

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