Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Downloading of iOS 8 to my iPad has failed at least six times, now possibly more. Is this because so many are trying to download at the moment (September 21)? Or is there something I need to do on my end. I have screen lock set to "never," though it was my impression that screen lock should not interfere with OS downloads.
iPad, iOS 7.0.4
I will make this quick. Hurray!!! I'm happy to hear that it finally worked for you.
Me too.
Auto-lock! you are kidding!!! I will try that! I am day 4 without my baby....too frustrated to try again. I will try this! Thanks
Ooops can't do that....in restore mode....not screen...dang!
Yes I realise I'm necroposting an old thread, but - exact same issue here, more than 6 months later. Hmm.
In my case I'm trying to update a BRAND NEW iPhone 6+ from the 8.1.2 that it came with - the 8.3 download is over 500 MB and I am now on the third attempt. Error 9006 or whatever, "unknown".
What's really annoying is the d/l speed is particularly pathetic - in the region of 40 kB/s or about 320 kb/s when the DSL line is capable of nearly 2,000 kb/s - and the file partially downloads by a substantial amount before failing: over 200 MB the first time and 300 MB the second so it ain't the anti-virus software (I'm doing it via a brand-new installation of iTunes on a WIndows 7 PC).
To make matters worse, I'm attempting this via TeamViewer remote control and each time the **** job fails the **** phone has to be unlocked using the **** passcode so I have to phone the user and ask her to type it in... **** YOU STEVE JOBS. Also we pay per MB of data in this country, and several attempts at a large d/l are not great on the budget.
Apple apparently has much to learn from Microsoft about making their server farms highly available and high throughput.
Edit: ha ha the word that sounds like a large water storage body or reservoir gets bleeped out on this forum. That's funny.
iOS 8 download failing repeatedly
