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Need 5.8GB of free space to install iOS 8. What?
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It's always been the case. It's for installation. You will regain the space after.
Update using iTunes if you haven't got enough.
The download message on my iPhone 5 said I needed 4.6 GB of space. It must be different for different models of iPhone.
Going from memory here, so bear with me. Connect your phone to iTunes. When it launches, go the page you'd use to sync. Somewhere at the top it will show your current iOS. Just below that you'll see check for updates. Follow the instructions from there.
Updated through iTunes -- did a restore (erase all settings) and then did a restore from back up through iCloud.
I had a problem with this. I knew about the space requirements so I made sure I had just over 5GB free before starting the OTA update.
The download was going extremely slowly. After 2.5 hours I finally got an update error because I didn't have enough free space!! It said I needed 4.7GB free!! I checked my stats and I only had about 3.5GB free!
I deleted some more stuff and stupidly started the download again. I feel like I should wait until I get home so I can use iTunes but there doesn't seem to be any way to stop this download.
The download was going extremely slowly. After 2.5 hours I finally got an update error because I didn't have enough free space!! It said I needed 4.7GB free!! I checked my stats and I only had about 3.5GB free!
I deleted some more stuff and stupidly started the download again. I feel like I should wait until I get home so I can use iTunes but there doesn't seem to be any way to stop this download.
Upgraded my iPhone 5 OTA and also needed 4.7 GB. Despite having a 100 Megabit connection, it was the longest and also largest update I've ever seen.
Despite that, the upgrades all seemed to work and no lost data aside from the room I had to make by deleting a few things that were in need of an update anyway. The music I had was in dire need of a refresh.
The only thing I can't find is how to enable Wi-Fi calling on T-Mobile. Had this iPhone 5 ever since launch and the same SIM module that shipped with the phone. Before on a previous Android based phone, I needed a new "GBA" SIM card to use Wi-Fi calling.
I would imagine the SIM shipped with the iPhone 5 should work but the other thing, anyone able to make a call over LTE yet?
Despite that, the upgrades all seemed to work and no lost data aside from the room I had to make by deleting a few things that were in need of an update anyway. The music I had was in dire need of a refresh.
The only thing I can't find is how to enable Wi-Fi calling on T-Mobile. Had this iPhone 5 ever since launch and the same SIM module that shipped with the phone. Before on a previous Android based phone, I needed a new "GBA" SIM card to use Wi-Fi calling.
I would imagine the SIM shipped with the iPhone 5 should work but the other thing, anyone able to make a call over LTE yet?
Hi Thanks for that tip
I tried that, but for some reason the update times out
Is it just rush at the gate ? meaning apple servers ? or ?
I've described my problems in detail here
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19839300#post19839300
thanks in adv
regards
Subu