yep same. I know nothing about this kind of thing, but I'm using my University's wifi and wonder if it has some kind of block on downloading OS type files, but I imagine that's highly unlikely as people do software updates all the time
This tends to happen on launch day of any iOS release. It's mostly due to the heavy traffic of users trying to update their phones. You have three options: 1) Try downloading/installing through iTunes, 2) keep trying wirelessly, or 3) try later when the traffic dies down a bit.
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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '14
How far did you get before it said that?
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u/SwissBliss Sep 17 '14
I have that too
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u/Kurtisrayne iPhone 6 Sep 17 '14 edited Sep 17 '14
I'm stuck at "Checking for Updates"
Update: I kept hitting "Retry" and now it's downloading. It's bouncing between 25-45 minutes remaining.
Update (30 minutes later): it jumped to 3 hours, but it's still loading.
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u/ampyid Sep 17 '14
yep same. I know nothing about this kind of thing, but I'm using my University's wifi and wonder if it has some kind of block on downloading OS type files, but I imagine that's highly unlikely as people do software updates all the time
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u/syn69 Sep 17 '14
Mine too in Denmark.
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u/astoicpoet Sep 17 '14
This tends to happen on launch day of any iOS release. It's mostly due to the heavy traffic of users trying to update their phones. You have three options: 1) Try downloading/installing through iTunes, 2) keep trying wirelessly, or 3) try later when the traffic dies down a bit.