Brand New iPad Pro stuck on *Install Now during iPadOS 17.0.2 software update.

SOLVED at least for me. Had the same problem. Turns out new iPad had iOS 16.6. Could not setup as iOS was to old. So… iTunes to the rescue. Hooked up new iPad to iTunes. Set up as new iPad. It detected the need for iOS update and did it (took 30 minutes or son to download, then another 30 or so to install itself ). Once competed, ran Bluetooth setup on new iPad, next to old one and voila. Bob's your uncle. Good luck folks.

I had the same problem with a new iPad Air. I 1. set it up as a new iPad then was able to 2. update to the newest IOS (17.1.1) from settings then 3. erased it and 4. set it up by transferring from my older iPad gen 6. It took a couple of hours and worked just fine.

Try force restarting the iPad. The apple support article below may help.

If your iPad won't turn on or is frozen - Apple Support

dkb123 is right. The problem I think is that you have to do TWO OS upgrades as the ipad was distributed with not the final OS 16 upgrade. So you have to do that, THEN do the OS 17 upgrade, THEN wipe it, THEN the transfer works.

The transfer also required the card verification of everything in my wallet and passwords for all three of my apple accounts (I'd love to merge them, but Apple makes you make a new one for every country you live, purchase software, and have a bank account in, and won't migrate when you move country.) So I lost about 3 hours total to this process, plus it would never have worked except something about the process somehow unjammed the problems with some (but not all) of the buttons on my old ipad so I could upgrade that as well.

Same thing happened to me with my new iPad Pro (it’s been on the market for a year so not really “new”). Wasted an hour waiting. Smooth move Apple. Turning it off then back on worked.

Apparently it had updated. When I did a force reset it went right into data migration.

OK I will try this next. Thank you!

I forced a reset, and then it said "transferring data... estimating time remaining". I left it saying this overnight and it was still saying it this morning. So I updated

My old iPad the buttons stopped working, so I couldn't do much with it (it was stuck in a news app), but something in this process kicked it out of that problem and I was able to run upgrades for the first time in weeks. It complained about a full disk (!) so I deleted a few apps as well as doing 15 waiting upgrades & an os upgrade. Now I've repeated everything again, and it is again they are both stuck saying they are estimating time.

It turned out it could only be done one stage at a time. Once I had both iPads upgraded (as a "new" iPad in one case), then all the data was still copyable over / the old one was ready to be erased. It turns out Apple seems to kind of know about and support this problem.

Yes! I had forgotten but when these i*** devices first appeared you could almost always recover them thru iTunes. I just applied your solution to a iPad Pro 17.4 and as you said it took some time to download. I spent the day chatting and calling but no one knew, or perhaps embarrassed that it takes a PC to get a reluctant iPad Pro to setup properly.

Me too - sounds like something wasn't ready for prime time. It installed just fine on the old ipad a couple of weeks ago.

Me too

Can u pls advise how to *wipe or delete* off after upgrading to ios17? Not too sure of this part. Any help would be wonderful. I am facing the same problem with the my new ipad pro today :(