Why is upgrade requiring iTunes?
My phone is requiring me to plug into iTunes to finish the upgrade.
I dont even have iTunes on my computer.
Why is this even happening? iTunes has not been required for upgrades in *years*.
I have *no* backups in iTunes.
They are all in iCloud
Please advise. I have a sneaking suspicion this upgrade just ruined my phone.
Something going wrong with the update means the phone currently does not have a functional operating system. So it can't simply redownload. The update alters the Os at a base core level. If something went wrong it is non functional and so cannot download again. It can't operate, so it can't do anything.
Itunse is there to solve these issues.
And yes this does happen from time to time. Even when "Steven" was around. Installation failures are not uncommmon. It may not have happened to you whcih just means its not something that happens often which just shows how good Apple is at its updates. You haven't had it happen in years and it happens once and you get all whiny about it?
It is something that can happen and as such is addressed by Apple through iTunes so it can be easily fixed. I think thats as much as you could expect from them. Nothing in this world is perfect.
HLT1 wrote:
By the way - are any of you aware you cant even DOWNLOAD iTunes from iTunes.com right now????
What?
I just downloaded it myself.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Seriously this is not the end of the world and does not make Apple any less of a great company.
If you have an iCloud backup you'll be able to restore everything you backed up. You should not loose anything.
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