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iOS 8 update download takes forever

I've been trying to update my iPad thru iTunes for two days. Every time, it estimated 30+ hours to download. I left on Mac on, but eventually, it got network connection error and I had to started all over again. Tonight, it's even worse, it's estimated 63 hours to download. This is the worse iOS update I've experienced. Previously it could be slow, but I can usually get it done for a couples of hours. This is just insane. I understand the severs are busy to deliver these big files all over the world. But iOS 7 was a pretty big update, I was able to upgrade pretty quickly. Seriously, can anyone from Apple can look at the server log and make sure there is no oversight.

Posted on Sep 19, 2014 11:20 PM

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Chevycraze86

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Posted on Sep 20, 2014 6:26 AM

Exactly the same issue that I am encountering. I even updated my iTunes to the latest version in hopes that iit would solve it. It didn't. either if I download it my phone or laptop, it still says it will take 14 hours but even after an hour or so it has no progress. Worst update ever...

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Jul 3, 2015 6:41 PM in response to wgogo

Many thanks. Your pausing and restarting trick works like a charm. I was trying to download IOS update 8.4, and the download time started at 60 hours before settling in a minute or two later at 2 hours. That seemed way slow, so I ran a speed test. Sure enough, my internet connection and speeds were fine. I was hitting a blazing 110 mbps on wifi, which told me that the slow update download was something on Apple's end. I've encountered slow downloads during other IOS updates, so I decided to look into the problem and found your suggestion. I paused and started again. 6 hours. Paused and started again. 8 hours. Paused and started again. 20 minutes. There we go. But that still seemed a bit slow. Pause and start. 7 hours. Again. 5 hours. Again. 4 minutes. BAM. Less than 4 minutes later the update had downloaded completely. This will save a lot of time and frustration in the future. It's strange that the download connections can vary so much, and it's a shame so many people spend many unnecessary hours downloading updates. Apple should fix that. At any rate, thanks again for the tip.

niteyez

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Sep 17, 2015 9:15 PM in response to wgogo

You da man wgogo... after reading through all the back and forth you posted a very solid solution that works. Csound needs to go find a happy place because he seems like he has a real chip on his shoulder.

Sep 18, 2015 3:16 AM in response to wgogo

[FIX] ISSUE SOLVED!

I face same issue. It take 33 Hours to download. Crazy?? when pause the download. It will re-download from zero.

Issue solved after I untick Simultaneous Download and retry download. It done 15 min download. Hope this will help you guys too. Thanks!

Sep 18, 2015 3:22 AM in response to Swaza

iOS 8 update download takes forever