ios9 slide to upgrade lock problem - fix!!!

This update is bull****! ➖ had some issue yesterday while patching. it however worked after half an hour but unfortunately just

for a while. I am again stucking at the apple progress bar... as soon as my bar hit's 1/6 of it, my i phone 4s immediately restarts and the whole process repeats! i am now trying to patch if for 9 hours without any success...➖➖

there is no way for me to perform a factory reset, i got sensible information on my phone.

the rest seems not to work; moreover i tunes want me to accept the usb process with my phone. funny!!!... how if my phone doesn't even do anything useful

Does not work. iTunes is of no use. I cannot hard reset as I keep getting to a message saying "Disable Find my iPhone", which I can't as I have no way to access the Phone. iMazing can see the phone and identifies the OS as IOS9. So it is installed. But I and I cannot perform a backup with iMazing.

I guess now I know what it feels like to be infected with ransom ware. Except I cannot pay may way out of this.

The phone is not in my device list in iCloud either so that is no help.

Unfortunately didn't work for me. I got a glimpse of my old home screen when I got up to the point that I restored my back-up from iTunes.
When I tried to restore my back-up it appeared to load it as good as new but after it showed for a couple of seconds it when back to a black screen with the Apple logo and progress bar. After a few mins the home screen came back round, but again a black screen with a progress bar came back. It did this a few times it got stuck on a black screen and is frozen 😟

So close!! I really thought this was going to work. I have tried so many different options too and I read this and thought it sounded good! Maybe I should try again?

I had the stuck "Slide to Unlock" problem. I upgraded my wife's phone from iOS7 to iOS9.

In the end I think it was a big problem with having the lock key turned on when updating. I eventually got everything to upgrade fine, but only after about an hour of fiddling with various scenarios. First, the key to getting the iOS9 to finish downloading was to actually plug the iPhone into the computer while holding down the Home button. The computer kept asking me if I wanted to trust the computer and to respond to the iPhone. The iPhone was in the middle of updating. Catch 22. When I plugged in teh iPhone while holding the Home button down, I received my first notice on the phone that the update was complete. I slid the bar. Next a popup came on the screen asking me to "Trust" the computer. I said yes. Once I got to that point, I waited quite a while for my phone to show up in iTunes. Once the phone showed up, I did not get asked to join a network on teh phone, it asked me for my iCloud password to finish setting up the phone.

The biggest problem with the locked sliding bar came only after I joined my network because I was no longer plugged into the computer.

During the update with the iPhone plugged in, there are some major issues with the phone being "LOST" after the update finishes downloading. The phone disappears from iTunes, and all is lost until you unplug. Once you do this, the new iOS update wipes all instances of your phone from the computer and asks you to trust the computer while the phone is still updating which is where I think the problem starts to come about. I eventuall got the phone to show up in iTunes and that is the only time I was able to finish the update. Phone was bricked for about an hour. I have updated 3 devices, and all 3 have gone funny during the update because at the end of the update the phone/ipad disappears from iTunes and cannot reconnect until you unplug it and plug it back in. Pretty bad update process, and basic programming checks should have caught this before releasing it to the public. Sad Apple botches every new iOS release with very poor update processes. I bet the issue is in the new iTunes release. We all know how "AWESOME" iTunes is and how stable it is and how well coded the program has become.

Phone is working. Terrible update process. Expected nothing more from Apple with this hour lost in my life. I never lost any photos, and I was able to upgrade from 7 to 9 in the end without restoring the iPhone. Keep trying to get the iPhone to actually show up in iTUnes and all should be well after that. I used the technique of plugging in the iPhone while holding the home button down. Take it for what it is, a lucky break for me or something that actually works.

I did not have to do anything that the original poster mentioned in his "Fix". I was able to squirm my way through the update without factory restoring. Just a heads up before you wipe your phones. The update can be completed, just takes a lot of fiddling around. My iOS7 to iOS9 update completed without factory restore and without any major iOS8.4.1 downloads to install before iOS9.

I tell a lie, it has just come back on and appears to be working!! Thank you so much Proximity9!!
So it is now safe for me to install all my old apps so long as I don't connect to iCloud or set a passcode as far as you know?

THANK YOU so much!!! 😁

Thanks. Now it works. Finally.

I tried this. Twice. It did not work on my iPhone 5,2. Even removed the SIM. But I could not get past typing a pass code. iTunes insists on it.

If I cancel I get nowhere. So I was still stuck with a useless phone.

Then I tried a third time. Finally figured out the logistics of holding down the home button already as I plugged the phone into the computer, as that would automatically start booting up the phone. Then it worked. Except I got to a point where it asked for it to be unplugged and insertion of the SIM. I did. And had to start all over again.

So the fourth time it seemed to work. Was a bit scared as I have locked the SIM. But I got past entering a SIM pass code. Then the process went as it should. Until it got stuck at "Step 5 of 5" in iTunes with an occasional blinking with a screen asking for settings for Location and iCloud services.

I decided to let it stay plugged in and finally after about an hour and a half it was an iPhone again with all my apps, mail settings and phone data (no music, no movies, no photos as I had backed them up and deleted on the phone to speed up installation originally).

So the big question is. Are there any apps I should avoid?

p.s. I have used apple products since 1991. This i the greatest f*** up I have experienced from Apple. Apple simply cannot have missed this, unless exhibiting gross negligence in final testing. Maybe the beta process made them blind. Next time I will NOT be the crash test dummy. I will wait!

my iphone does not have previous sync in itunes, and it doesnt read my phone what can i do with that problem

Hi there, ok, I'm totally stupid... I admit it..when it runs through the process, it asks for the pass code but won't go any further without it. How do you turn it off when you can't get into your phone to turn it off?

^ I second that lilith

Proximity 9 am trying really hard to follow your steps but as soon as I try to hard reset my phone after its connected it doesn't then give me an option for a factory reset , it asks again for the passcode. I just don't know what to do, even went into apple today and after 2 and a half hours the man had it set up for me to just link to itunes and restore the phone but it just happened all over again and keeps getting frozen at that "slide to update" stage. Topperdog I;ve also tried holding down the home button before connecting the phone and that didn't work for me either... Feel I'm at a loss and will be back at Apple again tomorrow

works perfect for me and my iPad 2, many thanks!

Lets wait for an update...