iPhone 15 pro max taking ages to set up

I am setting up my new iphone15 PRO and its stuck on update requested from last 1 hour. Is it a genuine issue or some problem with the update

I had this problem as well, upgrading from an iPhone 13 Pro to an iPhone 15 Pro Max. I started the set up process on the iPhone 13 and it went well up until the iPhone 15 got stuck on the “signing in“ process. Just by chance, I stumbled on another way to solve this. I exited out of the set up process on the iPhone 13. When I did that the iPhone 15 went from stock to asking me for the password for my iCloud account. I entered my current password. I did not change the password first. When I put in the correct password the process proceeded normally.

Why doesn’t Apple respond to these problems in the Community? We all shouldn’t have to stumble around trying to set up a $1000+ phone!

Having the same issue. Just spinning

I've seen reports of problems with the setup.

What could help is to go through the setup agent without signing in or restoring data, then update the iPhone 15 to iOS 17.0.2, reset it to factory settings and then do the proper setup with signing in and restoring.

Since your iPhone is stuck, I would recommend a hard reboot: Force restart iPhone - Apple Support (MY)

That will probably end up in an unsuccessful setup which lets you then proceed as described above. After two hours, I would not expect the migration to recover itself even when the amount of data is high.

Also, make sure, your old iPhone is on the latest version of iOS.

"Pushed up on the top button on the left hand side"? Can you please elaborate? There is no button on the left side of the iPhone 15 you can push up. I'm trying the other suggestion of updating my previous iPhone to IOS 17.

My 13 pro max has software up to date. I can’t set up iPhone 15 pro max. I’ve been trying for at least three hours now

I was having the same problem until I pushed up the top button on the left-hand side,the spinning immediately stopped. I was pleased with how easy it was to complete the installation.

I have exactly the same problem with my iphone 15 pro , this is most unlike Apple normally the transfer process is quick and painless, not happy .

Found a fix…maybe. We put both phones on IOS 17 and restore went through

Toggle button volume. Push it.

Nice one! My phone was stuck on Apple sign in and toggling The volume button worked for me thanks !

Apple should fix it. It took me half a day to set up my new phone

I'm on my second iPhone 15 Pro (first was replaced). Same issue on both, hangs on Apple ID. Issue is definitely the need to update the software on the phone first, so suggestion above makes sense. If the phone is not restarted after update it will hang on next steps. So this time, I ended up restarting the phone when it hung at Apple ID.

Then following prompts to continue setup and it is working now. Also, in both phones, the former phone would not scan the Quick Start blue dots, nothing happened so had to do it manually.

I just rebooted my 15 Max Plus and my Apple ID finally worked!