Why cable? 7 hours? All the previous iPhones I just held near each other and it transferred in like 20 mins via wifi Unsure whether that was phone to phone or

Why cable? 7 hours? All the previous iPhones I just held near each other and it transferred in like 20 mins via wifi Unsure whether that was phone to phone or iCloud to phone but either way was entirely painless Granted I was on both fast wifi and fast Fiber