What’s clear about today’s update is that Apple is trying to shift how people interact with their mobile devices. Bricking refers to an issue that blocks access to your phone with a black screen. Some eager iPhone fans arrived to queue at 4am on Thursday morning to be the first to purchase Apple’s new products, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, with iOS 8 featuring 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays. “Anyone who was affected should connect to iTunes to complete the update or contact AppleCare for help”.
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When Apple releases a software update of this caliber and on this scale, it’s not uncommon to have to wait your turn in the queue.
And just two months before that the iOS 9.3 was causing many iPhones to behave strangely, as users complained that the Universal Links feature is causing apps such as Mail, Safari and Messages to crash, after they have clicked on certain links that force sites to open in apps other than Safari.
You can download the latest version of Apple’s mobile OS, iOS 10 as an over the air update, it should be available as of now.
The update process went smoothly for me, if I hadn’t seen reports of update issues, I wouldn’t have known there was a problem, so clearly, it was lucky that I awoke at 4am and not any earlier. Users are managing it on their own and successfully installing it. Those who faced the problem can scrap it completely and begin the update process afresh. Officials with Apple and Cisco previewed some of the features in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, but with the release of iOS 10 comes more details. He also discussed augmented reality’s advantage over virtual reality – and said that while both “are incredibly interesting”, he viewed the former as the more interesting for Apple. Without having to unlock your phone, you can see your calendar, weather, headlines and pending Amazon orders.
If you want to check on your notifications without pushing buttons, use the new “raise to wake” feature built into iOS 10, which works exactly as it sounds. So, for instance, you can tell your Uber driver you’ll be there in a sec without have to load iMessage. Every new version of iOS since the second one has been very cautious and deliberate about what new capabilities are given to third-party apps.
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The latest iOS is actually quite good. If the download takes more than 15 minutes and your device exits recovery mode, you’ll need to repeat these steps and choose Restore instead of Update when you get back to this step. With the statement from the company, it suggests that the issue has been resolved.
