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Apple Says Over-the-Air iOS 10 Update Issue is Fixed
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Yeah, Apple should have made us all apply for specific download times and then this wouldn't have happened.
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Not talking about Steve, because I never knew him. But I do know that "It just works", was mostly right at one time, not perfect, but right enough that I did not worry about how my macs would work after an update. My macs were open to install anything and I had all kinds of wonky non-Apple software on them and they just worked. Now we have closed system that routinely has all kinds of problems. Years ago, I recommended to family, just install the update, now I recommend waiting for 2 or 3 point releases for each major release.
There's a BILLION iPhones sold, plus hundreds of millions of iPads.
Tens of millions among them were waiting with the finger on the button. Apple's scale is so staggering, that it's almost a miracle everything works at all.
But that billion means nothing, plenty of phones are now dead, any older than iPhone 5 and older iPads are not getting iOS 10, plenty of people are asleep or in work and some will choose not to update right now or ever, so it's not as high as you are making it look.
It's still one of the biggest downloads and updates every year of course, but people who accept stuff like this are really part of the problem, and the rest is how the world works which is not right either but there it is.
Over-the-air updates were not introduced until iOS5.
http://quotegeek.com/quotes-from-movies/jurassic-park/397/
There is also the expression, don't update in the first hours, especially without a backup, unless you don't mind losing your device and all that's on it. That goes for any major software update from any vendor, even those from Apple.
Yet, people keep doing it.
I can't believe the number of people who keep updating in the first hour when they could have waited 1 day and avoided all that. The first hours of the big release is a "Beta" in itself as your testing wide deployment for the first time where you get bugs that rarely occur in Beta.
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There are supposedly 1B IOS devices as of 6 months ago (more now) (which includes Ipads, Ipods, AppleTV and Apple Watch). Apple was selling a lot less devices in the early years, most devices have been sold in the last 3-4 years.
Brief issue my butt! I was looking forward to this update since it was announced early summer. I wish I would not have actually updated my phone. Here I am 3-4 hours removed from the initial install and I've had nothing but problems. These problems are typically android/samsung problems but not this year. I got rid of my macbook pro during the spring in hopes of either getting an updated version, or an ipad pro. Since I do not have a computer, I had to borrow a friend's pc to download itunes, and attempt numerous times to update my phone. I am still trying after this long. I spoke with apple care/ two representatives for a combined hour and a half and although their hearts were in the right place... the troubleshooting was something that you would propose to a novice. like unplug and change cords, restart, factory reset. If I could factory reset don't you think that I would?
I've had it in regards to this iphone 6s plus! In fact I did not want the phone. Sprint bullied me by using unfair practices when they were changing from the 2 year contract (which is what I purchased the iphone 6 on originally, paid $300) to their sorry "its not a contract, lease contract." After the first year of my contract they decided to charge me an additional $50 a month for the second year of my contract until it was up. That is an extra $50 per month just to have my iphone 6. So they pushed me into a lease with the 6s plus which was $15 cheaper per month, but has given me nothing but problems since. Dropped calls, stall outs on wifi and the normal network. Even their solutions were basic, restart your phone, factory reset it, we'll reset the network... I average at the very least one major problem with this phone each month since march 2016. A bitter taste has been left in my mouth by both companies at this current moment, my phone is still not working...
I've had it in regards to this iphone 6s plus! In fact I did not want the phone. Sprint bullied me by using unfair practices when they were changing from the 2 year contract (which is what I purchased the iphone 6 on originally, paid $300) to their sorry "its not a contract, lease contract." After the first year of my contract they decided to charge me an additional $50 a month for the second year of my contract until it was up. That is an extra $50 per month just to have my iphone 6. So they pushed me into a lease with the 6s plus which was $15 cheaper per month, but has given me nothing but problems since. Dropped calls, stall outs on wifi and the normal network. Even their solutions were basic, restart your phone, factory reset it, we'll reset the network... I average at the very least one major problem with this phone each month since march 2016. A bitter taste has been left in my mouth by both companies at this current moment, my phone is still not working...
In a statement given to BuzzFeed's John Paczkowski, Apple says the issue that was causing iOS 10 updates installed over-the-air to fail on some iPads and iPhones has been resolved, making it safe to resume iOS 10 downloads.Shortly after iOS 10 was released, a number of people who attempted to install iOS 10 using an over-the-air download saw their installation fail, effectively bricking devices until plugged into iTunes for an update or restore. For people who are not near a computer or who do not own one, this is a significant problem.
Users who were already affected by the problem will need to continue on with the restore process using a computer, but new users who attempt to install the update should not run into the problem.
Apple recommends creating a backup before installing any new iOS update, and those worried about having the install fail can instead download the update through iTunes, an installation method that has not been affected.
Article Link: Apple Says Over-the-Air iOS 10 Update Issue is Fixed
You could have waited a day. There often issues in the first hours; not just this year.
As for your false equivalency and rant... Yeah right.
When Apple released iOS 10 for download DID a message pop-up telling downloaders to hold off for a day? you know just in case? or were we all to assume the download was dirty at the outset?
As far as I'm aware Apple doesn't send push notifications encouraging people to upgrade their iPhones for the first day or two. You have to go looking for it in settings.
So yes, customers are to blame for rushing out to upgrade.
Almost every update these days has something trivial, suggesting that they haven't even tried it. Just let a few people test each build prior to inviting the general public, even if you are absolutely sure that the build is correct. Bricking every iPad Pro and iPhone 6S is brutal. Even much smaller companies than Apple perform basic smoke tests before public release.
Home now but iTunes is jammed and can't push the Update download. So I'm still locked out. But interestingly I'm still getting iMessage on my Apple Watch. And I can answer by dictation which I kind of thought was something Watch did by sending audio to my iPhone. Interesting.
And no real worries being without my iPhone for a few hours. I know that downloading the initial update has a bit of risk associated with it. But I have other devices and other phones. I really just wanted to update to iOS 10 so I could do update to Watch OS 3. That is what I'm really curious about. Hopefully iTunes will unclog at some point tonight and I can do the update to the phone and get it unblocked. If not, I can do the restore. But would like to avoid that as it will take quite some time to restore I suppose.
And no real worries being without my iPhone for a few hours. I know that downloading the initial update has a bit of risk associated with it. But I have other devices and other phones. I really just wanted to update to iOS 10 so I could do update to Watch OS 3. That is what I'm really curious about. Hopefully iTunes will unclog at some point tonight and I can do the update to the phone and get it unblocked. If not, I can do the restore. But would like to avoid that as it will take quite some time to restore I suppose.
Man, it's like people like you truly have no desire to actually think before you speak. Go learn the number of iPhones there were back then around the iPhone 4. Look at how many iOS devices there were. Then, look at how many iPhones and iOS devices there are now. It's a hell of a lot easier to "produce very stable iOS releases" when you aren't dealing with an absurd amount of devices. Did that honestly not cross your mind even once before posting that? Not once?! Lol
There are millions of downloads of a major iOS release in the first hour.
Apple's CDN is one of the biggest in the world, and of course it is global.
Yeah they used Wednesday September 7th as their BIG push notification. Yep, after Tim gave us another how great iMessage is going to be with ALL those stickers in the store HE thentold everyone that iOS 10 would be available for download on the 13th and every news outlet printed the story. But try again.
3:00 PM - Start reading this MR thread
3:10 - Get paranoid about update.
3:20 - Get beer & popcorn - ‘What the heck, I’ll do iPad Air 2 first’.
3:25 - Install new iTunes - Back up iPad connected to iTunes. Drink beer…
3:30 - Get error message, something about ‘Not Connected’. Drink beer. Push ‘Update’ again.
4:00 - No errors, must be doing something. Drink some more beer. Read some more MR.
4:07 - Apple logo come on iPad. Bar starts to move….Chug beer…..Eat popcorn
4:15 - Screen goes black - No response from Home Button..Get another beer.
4:17 - Apple logo back on…bar moving faster..munch popcorn…drinlk beer
4:21 - Get ‘Welcome Screen’ - drink beer in relief….
4:25 - Out of beer…Ask wife to go to store…’No!’ Go to liquor cabinet…find bottle of tequila..
4:30 - Start iPhone…….Laugh at some MR threads……
3:10 - Get paranoid about update.
3:20 - Get beer & popcorn - ‘What the heck, I’ll do iPad Air 2 first’.
3:25 - Install new iTunes - Back up iPad connected to iTunes. Drink beer…
3:30 - Get error message, something about ‘Not Connected’. Drink beer. Push ‘Update’ again.
4:00 - No errors, must be doing something. Drink some more beer. Read some more MR.
4:07 - Apple logo come on iPad. Bar starts to move….Chug beer…..Eat popcorn
4:15 - Screen goes black - No response from Home Button..Get another beer.
4:17 - Apple logo back on…bar moving faster..munch popcorn…drinlk beer
4:21 - Get ‘Welcome Screen’ - drink beer in relief….
4:25 - Out of beer…Ask wife to go to store…’No!’ Go to liquor cabinet…find bottle of tequila..
4:30 - Start iPhone…….Laugh at some MR threads……
Too funny ... wonder if you'd been laughing if you'd have pulled off that same stunt at 10:10 PDT and your phone was disabled?
I do agree with you to a point, really is when you do download a new version of IOS there is the possibility of something going wrong and if you rely so much on your phone you should wait to download it until after you backup your phone and can restore it if something goes wrong. All that being said Apple does seem to have a lot of issues with updates the last couple of years and should take extra precautions to make sure that when they push the update thru it does work and not cause people to have to restore from backup. All in all I think they do a pretty good job with the amount of traffic that goes thru their servers, perfect no but pretty good.
Know better to update that early and never with the phone.....Not my first rodeo.......