iOS Software Download Progress in Finder

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JonasRfih wrote:

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This is tedious when using a semi broken wire.

I sure hope they will fix this soon

Replace the "semi broken wire" so it isn't "tedious".

Well you'll have to put in a feature request at apple.com/feedback.

Did having a progress bar ever have any advantage? If it was "too long" did you ever abort the transfer or upgrade?

Bearing in mind this now only affects downloads of ios updates, and that using Activity Monitor is a more accurate workaround, how is this seriously affecting your schedule?

we support customers all over the world....from the USA, Australia to Vietnam and Philippines. iOS download times vary from 5 minutes to 15 hours. It is now extremely difficult to position a time consuming task and call back without being able to provide ETA guidance or track download progress. In some instances this may result in customers having to leave their phone connected to their computer for over a half a day for no reason other than the download progress is not shown in Catalina.

In instances where we have to force a device into recovery, in which it will only stay in recovery mode for 15 minutes, its now difficult to provide guidance on what steps the customer will need to complete if we don't know if the download will take more or less than 15 minutes. For some customers, this step can easily confuse them if provided unnecessarily and this change seems like a drastic layer of complexity that has been added with Catalina.

Ctrl+C (can try Command+C also) to break the loop :-)

Yep I agree there will be less techy people to know or use this but I gave it just to make it easier for people in absence of a UI based progress bar.

I dont know the language but is there an "inkey" function so you can quit the loop if char$ == q or something similar.

Is there a way to save the. code like a Clist or basic program?

it's been more than 30 years since I last wrote anything like that on the Vic20

I'm finding that Catalina has removed a lot of formally very user-friendly features. It is really rather disheartening to be honest; I don't think this was an intentional thing on behalf of Apple, i.e. I don't think they set out with the mindset of "lets remove a bunch of features that are really helpful to our users." I think it speaks more to the fact that they are expending less rigor in ensuring that they are delivering updates that live up to their formally very high standards. Very sad; I would just hope that at some point, Apple realizes that the more they chip away at the user experience, the more they lose their competitive advantage, or their "moat" in investment terms. As time goes on, the value proposition of Apple products continues to erode. Their products demand a sizable price increase over their competition. As time goes on, I'm finding that I continue to pay "premium" pricing for ultra-sub-premium product. I'm seriously considering migrating to another platform.

Also in the new Catalina update, when you accidentally disconnect your phone during download, it will stop the download and once reconnected, you have to start all over.

This is tedious when using a semi broken wire.

I sure hope they will fix this soon

TaylorBarr, I absolutely agree with you. It is a simple feature that helps users to make decision if they want to update now or later for personal reasons. I was wondering when I could not find the update status from my finder. I hope Apple brings it back.

In my case it always gives the same answer:

total 7864416

-rw-r--r--  1 luis  staff   3.7G Dec 28 14:43 iPhone_4.7_P3_13.3_17C54_Restore.ipsw

The first time I run this command is Dec 29 at 10:43, then I believe something is wrong at least in my case

Completely agree!

Since you go through this on a regular basis, could you please tell me how you finish the restore?

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So I had to force my iphone into recovery and like you said after 15 minutes it kicked out of recovery... how do I restore it?

I forced it back into recovery and had to start the download... it is a 15-minute vicious cycle.

Please help me find out how to complete the recovery.

If you can help me I would greatly appreciate it!

Yeah this is really dumb. I’m happy using the terminal, but Jesus Christ, I still wouldn’t do that. Was going to update my daughter’s iPhone 7 to iOS 13, but no way without some idea of how long it’s going to take. Bin iTunes, whatever, but why even allow the phone to update with the computer if you’re going to take away the progress bar?!?

Its disheartening to see that Apple has really taken user experience and the ease of operation for granted. As i see that people have been complaining since October 2019 and few have reported the issue directly to Apple, till date no one from Apple has acknowledged the problem ,leave alone finding a solution to the issue. Im really foreseeing a doom for Apple if it continues to have this attitude.

I hope someone from Apple will acknowledge this post and find a solution to this trivial problem

Apple is creating mess, by each update it removing features from iTunes, Like earlier I can download iPhone apps in Mac and update in all my iPhones, Apple removed that feature, then it removes Ringtones button and so on , sometimes I think that Apple collaborated with Android so that Apple users use one Android phone to do the simple things, like Apple still don't support Call recording (every Android is capable of that ) Apple is just copying features from Android, I still remember SWIPE Keyboard feature was there in my first Android phone back in 2012 the same feature added in iOS 13 now in 2019 **** .