Warning iOS 7.0.4 update bricked my iPhone.

Seems we are all having problems with same. Is there not anyone online from Cust support who can assist our queries?

No, this is a user-to-user support site, that information was included in the ToU you agreed to when you joined here.

You need to call AppleCare or make a Genius Bar appointment at your nearest Apple Store.

As I already said I had no problem updating my iPhone 5 and iPad 3 so this is not a universal issue.

I reported to Apple already,

But also want to let others to aware of this issue too.

Just crashed again when I click the Whatsapps. Quite annoying.

I don't use Whatsapp and mine isn't crashing so perhaps they need to update their app? Have you check with them?

This is only an example for crashing.

It showed recovery mode when I was charging my iphone yesterday.

I spent hours to restore my iphone.

Did you restore it from backup or as a new iPhone?

Restored from Oct's image...

Lost a lots of info.

Try Restoring it as a new iPhone and just use it that way for about 12 hours. If you have no issues it is something in the backup that is causing your problem.

My iphone works fine before 7.0.4. Hoping this can resolve the issue.

However, 7.0.4 definitely contributes something.

Thank you for your advice.

Add my name to the list... thankfully was able to restore from last week's backup, but still have to do a lot of reconfiguring (music, etc.) to get it back to normal. Not sure whether I should tell the husband to hold off for now or just have him backup his phone before updating... he may be one of the lucky ones and nothing will happen.

Yup, same here, iPhone rebooted into recovery mode. I'm pretty ****** off. It's just a point update and it wiped my iPhone 5. ***? What a waste of time. I'm restoring it from iCloud backup. Let's hope THAT works.

Me too.

iPad Air updated OK but iPhone 5 rebooted into recovery mode and needed a full iTunes restore.

First time I've had a problem like this in over 3 years of updates. Definitely something suspect about this one. Make sure you have an up to date backup before installing.

I have 5 iPhones in my family (all are original iPhone 5). 3 of them updated to 7.0.4 without any problem but the remaining 2 had the same problems described here - i.e. the update failed and the phones were placed into Recovery Mode. It took me a couple of tries to restore them from a backup in iTunes. I rebooted the phones and the laptop I had them attached to (a couple of times) and eventually I was able to restore and update them.

Jonathan, do you work for Apple? How do you know it is a "small percentage of users" who experience this problem? Firmware breaking an otherwise 100% functioning phone is definitely something requiring a fix. It is pretty disgusting that Apple will not even respond to this problem other than posting a "solution" that does not work for any one I have seen posting on the support discussions. Mine goes up and down but mostly down. After going to the Apple store it hasn't come back up. I installed iOS 7.01 right when it was released. Two weeks later my 1 year warranty expired. During those two weeks my wifi was out but I tried to find a solution on my own through Apple (nada), the support communities, YouTube, etc. etc. I tried all the so-called fixes. Now I am over my warranty and Apple says I have to buy a new (refurbished) phone since mine has a "hardware" fault. If I had known I had a hardware faulty right after I installed iOS 7.01 I would have been able to get a new phone without all this crap. Apple has screwed this up big time. Posts like yours are not helpful. If you have a solution or any other helpful tidbits to contribute then please do. I guarantee you would not be so smug if it was happening to you.

Johnathan is not an Apple employee. These forums are manned by volunteers.

I hope that your rant has made you feel so much better now.

Allan