Setting up new iPhone
My partner is trying to set up a new iPhone with his Apple ID that is connected to an old phone number that he no longer has. How can we set it up so he can restore from the cloud?
iPhone 8
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See if anything here helps. If necessary, you can use account recovery as explained in the link at bottom of the article.
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