Apple Admits To Big iOS 9 Problem

 

For the vast majority of users iOS 9 has been a great success. It’s biggest new features and multitude of great secrets have been a welcome improvement from iOS 8’s year of bugs. But it isn’t all smooth sailing and Apple has just admitted iOS 9 has a big problem…

In short iOS 9 is locking up users’ iPhones, iPads and iPod touches. Worse still it is locking them up at the earliest possible opportunity: the point of upgrade.
The precise moment comes when iOS 9 has downloaded and users are prompted to ‘Slide to Upgrade’. At this point devices lock up completely. And what is Apple’s fix? It actually doesn’t have one.

Apple iOS 9 Update is now being sent out to users – Image credit Gordon Kelly

Instead the company has issued an official warning on its site under the somewhat descriptive title: ‘If the Slide to Upgrade screen won’t go away after you update to iOS 9’ and says the only workaround is to restore your phone from iTunes after a forced restart.
Apple lists the steps are as follows:

1. Connect your iOS device to a computer that you’ve previously synced with iTunes. Then make sure iTunes is open.
2. Select your device. If you don’t see it listed, force restart your device by pressing and holding both the Sleep/Wake and Home button for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo.