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iPhone 13 Pro iPhone 13 Pro Max did NOT come with 15 installed

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rickeames

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I've never encountered this before, but I setup my new iPhone, transferring everything over from the old iPhone 12...I then tried pairing my watch (running 8) which wasn't having it -- just would not pair. So I reset the watch. Still nothing. Then I looked at software update on the phone. 15 wasn't installed. It was ON the phone as downloaded, but it was not yet installed.

How is that even possible?

So, I erased my watch for no reason whatsoever and now am waiting for my phone to update.

Did I just get a weird factory glitch? Anyone else get 14 running on their new iPhone?
 
rickeames said:
I've never encountered this before, but I setup my new iPhone, transferring everything over from the old iPhone 12...I then tried pairing my watch (running 8) which wasn't having it -- just would not pair. So I reset the watch. Still nothing. Then I looked at software update on the phone. 15 wasn't installed. It was ON the phone as downloaded, but it was not yet installed.

How is that even possible?

So, I erased my watch for no reason whatsoever and now am waiting for my phone to update.

Did I just get a weird factory glitch? Anyone else get 14 running on their new iPhone?
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You don't have iOS 14 though do you, just the OS wasn't installed for some reason.
 
I’m pretty sure iOS 15 was installed. There was an update released for the new phones that apparently fixes some minor issues and the update was also labeled ”iOS 15”, but if you had checked the version of the OS before you applied the update you would have seen iOS 15.
 
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rickeames said:
I've never encountered this before, but I setup my new iPhone, transferring everything over from the old iPhone 12...I then tried pairing my watch (running 8) which wasn't having it -- just would not pair. So I reset the watch. Still nothing. Then I looked at software update on the phone. 15 wasn't installed. It was ON the phone as downloaded, but it was not yet installed.

How is that even possible?

So, I erased my watch for no reason whatsoever and now am waiting for my phone to update.

Did I just get a weird factory glitch? Anyone else get 14 running on their new iPhone?
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Me too. Same thing. Had trouble restoring from backup. Once i installed the ios 15 update it restored with no problem.
 
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My 13 Pro Max didn't have iOS 15 installed either. I set up my new phone from my recent iCloud backup which was still on iOS 14. I quit being an early iOS adopter a long time ago.

That being that, am I missing any special features from not having iOS 15 on my new iPhone?
 
It was a beta build for sure preinstalled on these. For the last few years I've had horrible issues trying to sync my watch over. I just after 4 phone restores and 5 watch wipes managed to get most of my fitness awards over. I'm just going to resync my music at this point. They are close enough to parity to where I just don't care anymore.
 
It was the original RC build that was installed on the new iPhone 13 models. The new update was simply a minor update to iOS 15. If it didn’t come with iOS 15 installed, the download size would have been 5+ GB in size.
 
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ozziegn said:
My 13 Pro Max didn't have iOS 15 installed either. I set up my new phone from my recent iCloud backup which was still on iOS 14. I quit being an early iOS adopter a long time ago.

That being that, am I missing any special features from not having iOS 15 on my new iPhone?
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Exactly which iOS version is on your iPhone 13 Pro Max then if it didn’t come with 15 installed?
 
Of course it came with iOS 15. It’s part of the spec. Even review units that were shipped earlier had 15.
 
Its updating to iOS 15 with a higher build number. It came with 19A341 and you're updating to 19A346. Odd that they didn't call this 15.0.1 or something, but it's normal.
 
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I looked at the built prior to any update installation and it said iOS 15 on it. It was just a small update it took about a minute or a minute and a half so iOS 15 was on the system all along.
 
I knew about the update in advance when I was setting up my 13 Pro, but it still puzzled me that Apple had not labelled this update as 15.0.1.
 
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Okay, then that explains it -- does not explain the giant PITA it was to sync my watch to it until that update was applied, but water under the bridge as it's now synced and working. But man, was that an hour of screwing around...
 
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I knew about the update in advance when I was setting up my 13 Pro, but it still puzzled me that Apple had not labelled this update as 15.0.1.
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Because it would be even more confusing for the hundreds of millions users downloading iOS 15 for the first time.
 
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