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My iPhone 4S is stuck in iTunes screen after updating to iOS 7, what can I do?

Hi everyone

I updated iTunes to latest version.

Connected my 4s to iTunes and started the update to iOS 7.

Took a few minutes and in the end it gave me an error, dying the iPhone could not be updated for an unknown reason.

Now the iPhone screen shows "connect to iTunes" and I can't get it out of there!

Tried pressing both home and start buttons to no avail, won't do anything.


Help please!

iPhone 4S, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 18, 2013 1:31 PM

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Sep 19, 2013 3:10 AM in response to m3mpower

It worked the second time! At first I reinstalled iTunes (left the 'open right now' option checked) and when I connected the iPhone nothing happened. Then I unninstalled it and reinstalled it again (this time not leaving the open right now option checked) and as soon as I connected my Iphone Itunes openned and detected it.

Thanks so much for your help !!


I suggest to anyone with the same problem to try this method first, the method described in the link DOES NOT WORK.

My iPhone 4S is stuck in iTunes screen after updating to iOS 7, what can I do?

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