<h1 id="install" class="step pc-clone mac-clone">Install Tails by cloning</h1>
<h1 id="upgrade" class="step upgrade">Upgrade your primary Tails by cloning</h1>

<h1 id="install" class="step pc-clone mac-clone">Install Tails by cloning</h1>
<h1 id="upgrade" class="step upgrade">Upgrade your primary Tails by cloning</h1>

<p class="upgrade">
In this step, you will upgrade your primary Tails from the
<span class="upgrade-clone">other</span>
<span class="upgrade-tails upgrade-os">intermediary</span>
Tails using
<span class="application"i>Tails Cloner</spani>.
</p>

<p class="upgrade">
In this step, you will upgrade your primary Tails from the
<span class="upgrade-clone">other</span>
<span class="upgrade-tails upgrade-os">intermediary</span>
Tails using
<i>Tails Cloner</i>.
</p>

Plug <span class="pc-clone mac-clone">the new</span> <span class="upgrade">your intermediary Tails</span> USB stick <span class="upgrade">in addition to the intermediary Tails</span> into the computer.

Plug <span class="pc-clone mac-clone">the new</span> <span class="upgrade">your intermediary Tails</span> USB stick <span class="upgrade">in addition to the intermediary Tails</span> into the computer.

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_installcloner.png link="no" class="pc-clone mac-clone screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_cloner.png link="no" class="pc-clone mac-clone screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_installcloner_upgrade.png link="no" class="upgrade screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_cloner_upgrade.png link="no" class="upgrade screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

<p>If the Tails that you are cloning from has a Persistent Storage, another
option <b>Clone the current Persistent Storage</b> is available.</p>

<p>[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_installer_upgradcloner_persistent_storage.png link="no" class="upgrade" alt="Tails Cloner: 'screenshot" alt="Option: **Clone the current Persistent Storage** below **Clone the current Tails'**"]]</p>

<p>[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_cloner_persistent_storage.png link="no" class="screenshot" alt="Option: **Clone the current Persistent Storage** below **Clone the current Tails**"]]</p>

<div class="note upgrade">
<p>Thep>If you select the option <b>Clone the current Persistent Storage</b>, the
Persistent Storage of yourthe Tails USB stick will be preserved.</p>
<p class="upgrade-clone">The Persistent Storage of the other Tails will notthat you are cloning from will
also be copied.</p>
</div>

<p>If you select the option <b>Clone the current Persistent Storage</b>, the
Persistent Storage of the Tails USB stick that you are cloning from will
also be copied.</p>

<div class="note upgrade">
<p>The Persistent Storage of your Tails USB stick will be preserved.</p>
<p class="upgrade-clone">The Persistent Storage ofp>If you select the option <b>Clone the current Persistent Storage</b>, the
<b>Upgrade</b> button becomes unavailable and you can only
[[reinstall|install/clone]] and delete all data on the other Tails will not be copied.</p>
</divtarget USB stick.</p>

<p>If you select the option <b>Clone the current Persistent Storage</b>, the
<b>Upgrade</b> button becomes unavailable and you can only
[[reinstall|install/clone]] and delete all data on the target USB stick.</p>

<p>In the future, we want to allow cloning the Persistent Storage when
upgrading as well, for example to make it quicker to update a [[backup Tails
USB stick|doc/persistent_storage/backup]]. ([[!tails_ticket 20362]])</p>

The
After the <span class="pc-clone mac-clone">installation</span>
<span class="upgrade">upgrade</span>
takes a few minutes.
finishes, close <i>Tails Cloner</i>

After the <span class="pc-clone mac-clone">installation</span> <span class="upgrade">upgrade</span> finishes, close <i>Tails Cloner</i>

<p>You are done upgrading Tails. You can now shutdown and restart on your Tails USB stick.</p>

<p>You are done upgrading Tails. You can now restart on your Tails USB stick.</p>

<p>Thank you forCongratulations on staying safe! :)</p>

<p>Congratulations on staying safe :)</p>

<p>Read the [[release notes|latest]] of Tails [[!inline pages="inc/stable_amd64_version" raw="yes" sort="age"]] to see what's new.</p>