New phone gmail fail

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I backed up my phone to both hard disk and iCloud, went to the Apple Store for a new iPhone and started the restore from backup in the store. Of my 4 email accounts, the two non-gmail ones got set up properly and the two gmail ones did not. I got a notification to complete setup of one of the accounts, which I canceled, then the same for the other one, then the same for the first one. I canceled all three notifications because I was trying to do something else that didn’t need the email accounts, but they came back again whenever I tried to do anything with the phone. Eventually I broke down and tried to sort the issue. The three popups appeared multiple times, even while I was trying to enter the password in the settings app, so that I had to break off from entering the password to dismiss 3 popups that were demanding that I do what I was already trying to do.

Don’t know if it’s Apple’s fault or Google’s, but it’s a UX fail.

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Remove the account, restart the phone and add it back again.

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with the email, I just persevered disabling popups until I got the accounts set up.

Wemo was another story. I did have to restart my phone to get the Wemo app to work. Before that it was asking for location permission and then not saving my answer, so I could not get past the start screen. After a restart it worked and I was able to turn outside lights on and off for night mode photos.