iphone7 attempting data recovery

Same problem here. In this case, it was a problem with a forgotten passcode on a brand-new device, so now backups to recover. Just a straight recovery over iTunes. Got a 3004 error the first time, recovering it over my Win 8 PC, so I plugged it into an available iMac, and it recovered fine after that.

And then I got the "attempting data recovery" notice.

Since I had gone through recovery mode, I assume that the old (forgotten) passcode isn't an issue any more, so I input a dummy code twice, and was taken back to the data recovery screen. This has cycled 3 times now. Hopefully that will be the charm. Otherwise, off to the Apple store, I think.

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i got the same screen on my iPhone 7 Plus 128GB when i tried to downgrade back to iOS 10.2 from 10.2.1 on my MacBook Pro 2016 TB , so clearly its not widows or Mac's felt, when i asked about this from one of Apple employe who works in Apple said that is a iOS feature which lets iPhone 7 devices which has 128GB or up to keep the drive fast cuz it has lots of capacity to push

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I had the same issue. I restored my iPhone 6S backup to my new iPhone 7. iTunes then asked to update to 10.0.1. After rebooting, the phone appeared to fail the validation step and then went into "attempting data recovery". After completing, the phone appears to work fine, and reports 10.0.1 installed.

Hi, My iPhone 7 just did exactly the same.

Crashed after it downloaded iOS 10.0.1 during the verification stage.

Took an age to 'Recover Data' but all seems OK now and phone reports iOS version as 10.0.1 in settings.

Phone was restored from an iPhone 5 backup.

Same issue while upgrading to 10.0.2.

My iPhone 7 had the same issue, twice:

1) Update from 10.0.0 to 10.0.1 by iTunes after restore from an iPhone 6 backup

2) Update from 10.0.1 to 10.0.2 by iTunes but with no backup restore

*Windows 10

The "attempting data recovery" screen took a relatively long time(maybe 10 minutes), and it followed a prompt "press home to recover".

During the process, iTunes was giving a message called "iTunes could not connect to the iPhone because it is locked with a passcode" and did nothing revolves data restore/recovery.

When the update completed, my iPhone seemed to be back to normal.

Although English is not my native language, the words "attempting" and "recovery" bothered me, sounds like there was some "failure" occurred, I searched the web and found nothing, I think maybe this is new from iOS 10.

I will appreciate it if someone can give some information about why this is happening.

Thanks!

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P.S. There was no any failure appeared on iTunes side except the passcode thing, iTunes status:

Extracting software ->

Backing up iPhone 7 ->

Preparing iPhone for software update ->

verifying updated iPhone software ->

Updating iPhone software ->

verifying updated iPhone software(again)->

Updating iPhone firmware->

iTunes could not connect to the iPhone... , at the same time, "attempting data recovery" happened on iPhone side.

This is exactly what happened to me as well. Also on Windows 10, my original backup was from my 5s. Then from 10.0.1 to .2 the exact same. A little worrisome considering it has occurred twice now, but everything seems fine after updating. Very strange. I may try restoring from backup and doing an OTA update.

This occurred on all my iphone7 devices. This recovering step does not happen on any of other devices. Is this a known step or something that needs to be investigated?

Same here. It happened from 10.0.0 to 10.0.1 and from 10.0.1 to 10.0.2

Is this a software or hardware issue ?

Same happened to me from 10.0.1 to 10.0.2 it restarted with the comment "attempting data recovery". Good I had made a backup before the update, but after recovery everything went fine and 10.0.2 appeared.

Same thing for me.

Restored a backup from my 5S 10.0.1 to my brand new 7 also in 10.0.1. Was ok, until a tried to updated it to 10.02 through iTunes (from Windows 10).

So this morning I decided to update from iOS 10.0.1 to 10.0.2 but this time did it over the air (i.e. using software update in the iPhone settings) rather than using iTunes.

It worked perfectly - no 'attempting data recovery' or any other issues.

BTW I run iTunes on windows 10 with the anniversary update.

Hmm, perhaps it is an iTunes update issue then? If this does not occur OTA. I'll try to roll back to my 10.0.1 and backup and give it another go OTA.