upgrading to ios 7, cannot connect to apple store to activate iphone

Same problem with my iphone 5 - win 8 -itunes 11.1..

this is horable..

my iphone5 updated without any problems. my ipad3 crapped out during the update, forcing to restore the whole device, and now can't be activated. great Apple. hope you are getting your ears chewed off by ****** off customers.

this is not the first new iOS release. they should know what resources to have in place by now.

Same problem, please fix it!!!

Try this, it worked for me: unplug your iphone from pc and just try to activate via your wifi .....i tried 3 or 4 times until finally did it..hope this works....cheers

Fianlly after an hour or so - the phone i 5 is activated. Now onto restore from backup!

it ***** but youre just going to have to wait it out.

If anything, I'm glad to know this problem isn't just me, although I'm surprised I haven't seen more about it online. I was restoring, having been running the beta, and usually this is a really quick process. This time I've resigned myself to being without a phone until sometime in the middle of the night.

UPDATE: I kept trying for 3 hours, total, and it finally went through. I had moved over to trying to update via Wifi and not via iTunes (don't know if that makes a difference) and about the 10th time I hit Try Again on the phone, it went through. Now I'm restoring. So the key is not to give up - or just wait until North America is asleep. ;-)

If you are running Windows 7, just go to control panel, network and internet, internet options, connections, LAN settings and uncheck use proxy (or if already unchecked, check it, apply, then uncheck it) and this should work it worked for me on iphone 4 .

UPDATE: Everything was fine later that night. In a way I kind of enjoyed being forced to read a novel on the subway, and I appreciated the irony in the device manufacturers being the ones causing my separation from the beloved device.

If u cannot connect to iTunes Store in iOS 7 . Go to settings - iTunes AppStore - sign out and sign in your Apple ID. You will then be prompted to enter your iTunes password to connect to App Store. Do not type password in. Do a hard reset and then open AppStore. Everything should be working. It worked 100% for me. When nothing else worked. Try it and let me know!

I don't like new graphics on iOS 7 ......really bad icons....no depth no 3d....sad for my eyes

To hard reset hold top power button and center button at bottom of front of iPad at same time till apple symbol shows. Then let go of buttons and let iPad load. That is a hard reset

THIS WORKED FOR ME...... THANKS SO MUCH TECHSUPPORT GUY! 🙂 NOW I AM READY TO GO!

Thanks for this. iPad mini is now working again. Can now connect to iTunes Store and update apps. I only have my iPad since September and so your 2nd comment re hard reset was absolutely necessary for me !

I agree with you re the icons on iOS 7 - awful!

my ipad can't activate my account and it said that "(************@yahoo.com) cannot be used to unlock this ipad"

but this site, it activate. Maybe the last update on iOS 7 on itunes stuck.. ( any apple devices )

but i want to activate my account now !