its been preparing update for 1 hour now. anyone know why? im setting up my new iphone 14 plus and its taking much longer.
iPhone 14 Plus
I had the exact same issue , but finally figured it out! I went to Setting , General, erase content. (But I kept my ESIM). I started all the way over and this time I did not put in my iCloud information when setting the phone up and I bypassed all the Face ID and other suggestions so it was a brand new phone with nothing on it. I then updated to the new IOS (took about 20 minutes.) After that updated , I erased everything again and this time I did transfer from another phone and that took about 30 minutes.
If you try to do it while transferring over all you data it takes forever so do the update first without an iCloud/Apple ID (you can also plug into a MacBook/PC and update that way) and then go back and transfer everything over.
I wish I would’ve thought of that before I wasted 16 hours of my time.
Same. Mine has been preparing overnight and still not done. It won’t let me set up the new phone without the update.
I’m in the same boat w my 15 pro max replacement… did urs ever work? How long did it take if so? Mines been trying for 3 hours now stuck on “3 seconds left”
IOS 17.4.1 UPDATE TAKING VERY LONG !
