iOS 10.3 upgrade not working on 5c

Sometimes the 32bit versions of iOS are slow to release over the air. If you connect your phone into iTunes, you'll see the update. Otherwise it may be a day or two before your phone shows it as available. Sometimes doing a hard reset can force the update to appear, press and hold the home button and sleep/wake button at the same time for 10 seconds until the apple logo appears, then try the update again.

There's nothing official to say they've dropped the support yet though, in fact on Apple security updates - Apple Support it still says iOS 10.3 is available for "iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation and later"

What gives you the right to act as a censor here, jmgrlc? 😠

If Briandr73 is upset over this, then he is upset. And he has the right to express that feeling here since it's relevant to the topic, and not expressed in a bad manner. Life is not only about blowing rainbows and unicorns out of … Support sites are often about problems – you know.

Besides, having a rapid user adoption of system updates is a particularly strong aspect of the Apple community. And also something Apple themselves support. So, this is important, and people buy in on that quality concept. Of course it causes reaction if suddenly not working, especially if some users/customers are affected more than others.

I have a 5s and I'm having issues too. I'm able to download the update, but when attempting to install, I get an error message stating, "Unable to Install Update" "An error occurred installing iOS 10.3." I've tried updating about 8 or so times now. The same behavior occurs every time.

I found a few articles that recommended:

1. Switch to airplane mode, turn off your phone, wait 10 seconds, turn phone back on, turn off airplane mode, try again.
2. Reset your phone by holding the Home and power buttons at the same time
3. Reset your network settings
4. Delete the update via "Manage Storage" and try again
5. Try updating via iTunes

I've tried each of these, and the behavior hasn't changed. The iTunes method wouldn't work at all. I plug my phone into my MacBook and it gives me an "Update" button for my phone, but clicking the button does nothing. It doesn't even show the button being pressed or anything.

At this point I'll probably give it a day, I was just excited for the storage updates, as my phone has had storage issues since the update before last. Good luck to everyone else having this issue!

This doesn't help your situation, but one of my coworkers is experiencing the very same thing on his iPhone 5. I have an iPhone 5s and it is shwoing that the update is available for me. I have not installed it yet, but the phone is eligible for the update and yours and my coworker's phones should be as well.

This is what Briandr73 said in a post above.

It tells me iOS 10.2.1 is up to date when checking for update. Have not tried using iTunes yet.

There are other iPhone 5 and iPhone 5C users as well as iPad 4 users reporting that the update is not available in the settings to download OTA, but that it is available for them in iTunes.

No one is suggesting you need to get a new phone, at least a dozen of us have told you the same thing. The update is available in iTunes, it may take a day or two for it to show up over the air. This is a simple solution and not worth getting worked up over. Chill out and follow the instructions we have given you, it will solve your problem.

When you connect your iPhone 5c to iTunes and trust your computer you can access the update by clicking on your phone and clicking update. This will require the latest version of iTunes which is currently 12.6. Hope this answer helps.

I've got an iPhone 5C stuck on iOS 10.2.1 and won't upgrade to 10.3 OTA or using iTunes on laptop, both say it's up to date. Any ideas? Bit worried now I'm hearing 10.3.2 won't be compatible with iPhone 5 or 5C.

Sorry, missed that. Apple pulled the 10.3 update for the iPhone 5, iPad 4 and mini iPad as these are 32 bit devices and the future is 64 bit hardware and software only. It's unclear if there will be any replacement or this is the end of the line for those devices.

I would not hold your breath on them releasing a 32bit version of iOS now that Apple has dropped support for it. I think you are going to have to look at 32 bit as water under the bridge, never to be seen again.

Make sure iTunes is version 12.6, otherwise it will not show up. Secondly 32-bit hardware isn't going to be supported much longer, but iOS 10 still supports 5/5c devices. the ÔTA update was pulled today for 32bit devices, so it is possible that there was an issue with the delta update. Just connect the device to iTunes version 12.6 or above and it'll pop up.

And to assuage the moderators who got rid of my last comment, I did not provide information that wasn't publicly available then (please check about 100 YouTube videos about it). And now I am not even referring to that information base. I take my NDA seriously as a developer, and the person I was resonding to was trying to use a help forum to dis-parage the company, and the hardware no matter how much help we attempted to give him. Please moderate correctly when tu comes to people who are trying to hela the community.

10.3 is not available using the latest version of iTunes on a windows laptop in the UK for any of my 3 devices. When you check for updates it says they're all on the latest versions already.

iPhone 5 16GB

iPhone 5c 8GB

iPhone 5c 16GB

I just attempted to upgrade my iPhone 5 to iOS 10.3 OTA only to have it say that there was no update needed.

I then tried doing it using iTunes and was finally able to get it done that way.

What, exactly, happens when you try to update it? Have you tried checking for updates using iTunes from your computer?