My air running 9.3 fine with no issues has the update OTA for the new 9.3. Ugh watch this version give me issues lol
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Apple Releases New Version of iOS 9.3 for Older Devices Affected by Activation Lock Bug
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It's not there. I think I deleted it already cuz I kept getting a popup to install and didn't want to. But the update it is showing available is only 197BM.
So, now what should I do?
I'm on 9.2 ... nothing about this mess seems normal.
I don't know whether to update or not. it's only 197MB.
Yup my friends 5S. Can't seem to update been giving this exact error message since last week.
I'm on 9.2 ... nothing about this mess seems normal.
I don't know whether to update or not. it's only 197MB.
Yes that seems fine for an OTA from 9.2 to 9.3 to me. Obviously I can't guarantee anything but seems very fine to me.
How about iTunes?I'm on 9.2 ... nothing about this mess seems normal.
I don't know whether to update or not. it's only 197MB.
You should go to Settings > General > Storage, and delete the installer. After that check for updates again...
To be frank, Apple barely seems to care about their own forums, otherwise I cannot explain some of the ages old issues in OS X that seemingly never get fixed.
Just because there are threads doesn't mean that Apple checks them all.
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Using a password manager is actually a really bad idea. You're creating a single publicly accessible point of failure, which, when it fails (not if), the passwords of every site you go to are now compromised, and you have to reset them all. You're better off keeping them well encrypted locally. Far less likely anyone's going to get into them. A password manager is just too obvious a target for hackers, and eventually someone's going to break into one, assuming it hasn't happened already.
I've an iPhone 4S and an iPad Mini 2. Installed 9.3 when it first showed up on them to be installed. No problems with installation or with Safari functioning properly afterwards. Perhaps I am not using the apps and/or services that most people who have those devices do. Which suggests only that I'm underutilizing my devices.
Thank goodness my ancient 2 1/2 year old iPad Air will be good to go with this update. I must be one of the few running such an old device.
On a friends iPhone he is having similar issues but I can't seem to successfully delete the original install for him. He's still running 9.2.1 never been able to update to 9.3 and today problem still exists.
Never mind think I fixed it!
The installer was deleted some days ago. So there is nothing to delete. Just the same 197MB update. Not sure what it is.
Well, similarly, just because Apple doesn't post something there or releases some official public statement, it doesn't mean that they aren't aware of some issues and aren't working on them.
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It sounds like a OTA delta update to the latest publicly offered version, as is typically the case.
I'm particularly NOT referring to their faked non-presence in their own forums, I'm referring to many issues, quite substantial at that, having remained unfixed for very long, longer than is reasonable.
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Sounds like they might not be a priority for whatever reason in that case.
That's true, quality of products has tanked and the amount of holes there are to fill have exponentially grown, of course they can't keep up anymore.
At least we get a new OS every year with new major bugs as well. Yay. /s
Meanwhile work on meaningful background technologies slows down or the work that is done is band-aid to counter their greed in using up-to-snuff hardware. (memory compression isn't something they introduced, because you get too much memory in Macs... It may be a nice idea, but it really sucks as OS X these days doesn't even properly work without it anymore. If you disable it, because well you may have MORE THAN ENOUGH RAM your OS will not even properly shut down anymore... Who cares right? That's what OS X is these days.)
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Same here, iPad Air, just installed it and it is all good again, it fixed the issue I was having with Music crashing every time I clicked the download icon.
Happy days.
[doublepost=1459202194][/doublepost]No problem here iPhone 5S, iPad Mini2No problems here. IPhone 5S, iPad Mini 2
Just a few days after releasing the iOS 9.3 update, Apple stopped offering it to a selection of older devices including the iPad Air and earlier and the iPhone 5s and earlier due to an activation issue. When the update was pulled, Apple promised to release a new version of iOS 9.3 shortly.
Apple today made good on that promise and has released a new version of iOS 9.3, build 13E237, which is now available for all iOS 9 users with older devices as an over-the-air update or through iTunes. Customers with older devices who had not yet updated to iOS 9.3 will be able to do so now.
With the first version of iOS 9.3, people with older iOS devices were required to input the Apple ID and password used when originally setting up the device. If the account information could not be recalled, the activation process could stall, rendering the devices inaccessible. To prevent users from installing iOS 9.3, Apple stopped signing the update for several older devices.
Following the release of the new build, Apple has resumed signing iOS 9.3 and the update now asks for current the Apple ID and password linked to the device instead of the original information.
On Thursday night, Apple issued an updated version of iOS 9.3 specifically for the GSM iPad 2, which was afflicted with a separate activation bug that prevented the device from communicating with Apple's activation servers.
Article Link: Apple Releases New Version of iOS 9.3 for Older Devices Affected by Activation Lock Bug
Please, you people need to STOP. The install was asking for the password used to ORINGALLY set up the phone ... which in many cases, is no longer the persons current password. So even though many knew their current passwords, their phone was getting locked out.
Of passwords you know longer use, how many do you remember!?! Now clam it and walk away.
Maybe it's the delta update to the latest version, but I think there's no way to know for sure. To be certain you can restore from iTunes and then use an iCloud backup. That's what I would try.
Hope you remember all of the multiple combination of passwords from 3 years ago.