iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed

Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode.

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[MilanKraft]

STAY AWAY IF YOU HAVE AN iPHONE 4S + iOS 7.x!!

Attempted two installs and both get stuck on the White Screen of Death ("Swipe to Upgrade"). Factory reset didn't help. Others on the interwebs having the same problem and not just with 4s models apparently. I think though it is only happened to 4x and 5x customers, not 6x as far as I've seen.

Apple did a bang-up job of testing this in a variety of install scenarios on 4s apparently, though.

 

[MilanKraft]

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MilanKraft[/url]":238ag13n]STAY AWAY IF YOU HAVE AN iPHONE 4S + iOS 7.x!!

Attempted two installs and both get stuck on the White Screen of Death ("Swipe to Upgrade"). Factory reset didn't help. Others on the interwebs having the same problem and not just with 4s models apparently. I think though it is only happened to 4x and 5x customers, not 6x as far as I've seen.

Apple did a bang-up job of testing this in a variety of install scenarios on 4s apparently, though.

My 5S refused to let me skip 8.4 (.1?). I had to update first before it would load 9.

My iPad went directly from 7 to 9 without problem. I did it mainly for the security benefits but it definitely is laggier.

I think this is the issue. iTunes wanted me to install 8.4.1 all day (it wouldn't show me iOS 9). But later when I looked in the iPhone settings via wifi, it said I could go straight to iOS 9. It lied.

I think there's a reason iTunes keeps telling everyone to go to 8.4.1 and it's because there's a problem going to 9 from 7. Ingenious Apple expects us to read minds instead of assuming the server hasn't been updated with 9, which is what most people thought.

They should pop up a simple dialog: if you want to upgrade iOS 9, you must install iOS 8.4.1 first. Durr.