phone is stuck on white screen with apple and progress bar all the way to the right, like it is finished.

I had this happen too with my brand new iPhone 11 Pro. I first tried a wireless data transfer from my iPhone 6s. I got the loading pinwheel and the message that the data was transferring and it should "take a few minutes." Two hours later it was still spinning. Then I tried to transfer data via a recent iTunes backup of my 6s. iTunes said I needed to "Update" so I agreed. Long story short, I ended up where you are: Apple icon with a loading progress bar basically at 99.99% which will never finish. Every time I restart the new iPhone it asks me to swipe up to continue the update and then I end up back in the same place when the update starts all over again. It eventually freezes at 99.99%.

A tech person I talked to via Apple online chat support suggested it was a "Find My iTunes" issue and I had to remove my *old* iPhone from "My Devices" via iCloud. I did that but it didn't help. It still bricks. Sooooo disappointing and I can't beleive I'm the only one and there aren't more out there.....

I was having this same issue and can confirm that after doing the DFU restore, I was able to successfully setup the phone. Thanks for the tip!

I did the update in iTunes. that went quick. just now I am waiting for something I don't know. have support on the chat and I am going to see if they can shed some light on this. before I have a black screen and now I got a white one with the logo

Same thing happening to me with my new iPhone 11 Pro Max. I did a restore from local backup on my Mac thru iTunes. Process seemed to go smoothly, but now the phone has been the white screen w/ the loading bar looking 99% complete for hours. it has been ~7 hours since I first started the restore. I guess I'll leave it overnight?

Anyone have success with the phone actually completing eventually?

Hi, plug it into a power source and wait.

Exactly the same issue here. Hard reset done nothing. Going to leave it on the load screen overnight to see any change. If not it’s straight to the Apple store tomorrow

I did the force update through iTunes and still it is locked up it seems. This should not take this long to set up a phone.... I guess I will have to wait another 2-3 hours to see if it finished..

Mine still in a loop with the apple. Piece of brick. Now I have no phone.

Doesn't work.

Same here. I was told mine would have to be sent to Apple for service.

I've done this method several times with no success

Identical problem for me but nothing including the above has fixed it. Only diff is my backup is on my mac....

was your update in the cloud or on a mac?

Thank you so much it totally fixed it after 5 Trips to apple and hours on the phone. The dmu killed this problem