Q: I have tried everything with the IOS9 slide to update problem, update / restore then safe mode update and restore everything returns to that same slide to update screen

Likewise, I've tried the restore from backup, the backup succeeds, syncs, and then: same problem as before, stuck on "slide to update".

We need a less painful way to work around this than: restore the phone from backup (which takes quite a while and then ultimately makes no difference).

I tried setting up the iphone by restoring as a new phone. That works but is a big loss of data (who wants to have to setup all those passwords etc. all over again, argh...). I then tried restoring from a backup of my phone from before the upgrade, but no luck, I still wind up stuck with "slide to upgrade". So in practice the only workaround I've found so far is to start my phone all over again from scratch. Not a happy customer about this! But then again, what was I thinking? Apple always botches its *.0 releases. I should have waited til at least 9.1....

Same thing on my ipad 2 and everytime I try to connect on itunes it freezes my pc.

It is my favorite of all ipads and I have no interest in a new one so i'm quite desperate here.

I've tried this and some other fixes posted on reddit but the problem is that neither my pc, or notebook recognize my ipad on itunes.

  I've tried upgrading and restoring several times via iTunes and it still gets stuck on the slide to upgrade. An Apple advisor told me there's nothing more I can try and have to wait until iOS 9.1 is released but they've no idea when this will be!