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eric3312

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Sep 17, 2012
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Random question. I was trying to help some elderly people update their iPhones to 16.0 over the phone.

They both have iPhone 13 Pro Max with iOS 15.6 I believe.

After the update process, one of them booted up and had the friendly “software update complete” message and I think another confirmation that the update finished. May have been some kind of notification like bubble, I cannot remember.

The other phone finished the update and simply showed the Lock Screen upon boot up. When swiping into the phone, there were no confirmatory messages indicating a successful update.

However, both phones show “iOS up to date “ when checking for updates in settings. Everything appears to be functional.

My question…is there a reason why sometimes a phone gives those confirmation messages and other times it doesn’t? Is that normal? Is it random? Does it depend what version you’re updating to or something?

These elderly folks are super nice…I was trying to walk them through the prompts and they were super confused when I said “click continue” when it says the software update completed.

Again, not a big deal at all…not an issue or anything. Just curious if there’s a rhyme or reason as to when those messages pop up.

Anyone else experience similar behavior?
 
I believe it only stays on the screen for a few seconds and disappears if the screen is touched. Maybe that's what happened.
 
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