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APPLE HAS MADE its new iOS 7 software available today.
It is a drastic change in interface from iOS6, but change is not necessarily a bad thing.
If you’re thinking about making the switch, here’s what you need to do:
Make Sure You Have A Compatible Device
iOS 7 will only work on iPhones that are iPhone 4 or later, Retina display iPads, iPad 2, and the fifth-generation iPod touch.
Carve Out Some Time
Historically, Apple makes its software available around 6pm (Irish time) on the release day. When lots of people download it at the same time, it crowds Apple’s servers. If you can wait, try downloading iOS7 in a few days. If you’re impatient, be prepared for a sluggish download.
Update iTunes
If you back up your iPhone or iPad to iTunes, or if you plan to install iOS7 from iTunes, make sure you are running the latest version (11.1).
You can check by opening iTunes and going to Help > Check for Updates. Make sure you restart iTunes after installing the latest version.
Back Up Your Device
Back up your device to iTunes. This is extremely important as it will let you keep your contacts, photos, and apps from the previous iOS.
You can also back it up to iCloud. Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup. Under Backup, turn on the switch for iCloud Backup.
Update iOS
When iOS 7 becomes available, you can update with a good Wi-Fi connection by going into your settings and grabbing the software update. This is an easy way to do it if you’re on the go.
You can also use iTunes to upgrade your software.
Plug your device into your computer with the USB cord and launch iTunes. On the left side of iTunes, find and select your device. Click “Check for Update” which will appear automatically. When the dialogue box appears, select “Download and Update”.
Wait
Be patient as you wait for the download. If you interrupt the process you could risk disrupting the update.
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Can I download it on my nokia? :D
The author of this article wants everyone to hold off, just so that they can download it themselves, faster. Good thinking.
I’m going to wait until tomorrow. It’s what Bill Murray would do.
I’m waiting until next month for iOS8.
(Schoolgirl scream)
Let her go!
Just downloaded its GREAT.!!
Enjoy the bugs. 7.01 should be released in a few days. Then 7.02 to fix the fixes in 7.01.
It’s great, isn’t it?! :-)
Paul,
It was beta tested for months. I have it for a few hours now. Zero bugs.
Zero.
I have it an hour and the keyboard is crazy slow and not responsive at all. It has Probably taken me 15 minutes to even write this, any ideas?
Never mind, got it sorted!
You took your gloves off? :-)
It needs over 3gb space to download … WTF?
I just deleted my whole music section job done
Temporary use of the space is all it is,
Just back up to the iCloud, delete enough for 3 Gb of space, install ios7 and the restore from cloud. You lose nothing.
Really?
63 hours remaining !!!!!
I have no idea what’s going on here but I blame Enda bleedin Kenny for it.
So excited for this update
The joy of downloading on the wifi upc 50meg broadband took about ten mins. Beats the hell out of updating it at home in mayo. Eircom 1.1meg speed!!
Jesus Mayo sounds like an awful place.
It will be a great place come Sunday evening.
It is
Updating now over the air… I’ll see you on the flipside….
The “flip-side” ??? Jeeze ! Is that a hipster term ?
flip-side or jeeze?
Over use of the question mark = definitely hipster.
i-flip. Now you’re mad.
It’s been downloading for the past 2 hours. Says ’18 hours remaining’. Help?
Switch your phone off and back on again worked for me
Still not working but thanks :)
Took me two attempts
I made the mistake of updating to iOS6 the second it was released last year. It took ages and was buggy at the beginning.
I learned my lesson so I will be getting this in a few days!
Same here! Waited and waited (saving my upgrade) for the iPhone 5 but actually bought the 4s the week the 5 came out because I hated iOS6 so much and wanted iOS5 back.
I’ve had ios 7 for a few months now, very little problems in the final release. A drastic improvement all round too, would definitely recommend you update when you can :)
Will do! :)
Grand theft auto and ios7 out in the same week, wow!!!!!
Aaaaand a massive congrats to you all. You now have an Android phone. Lame Apple… Just Lame… Everything ‘ new’ about it has been a feature on Android for ages, yet Apple make out like it’s revolutionary. Kinda like Siri really. :-/
Everything you said is 100% true. However, cruely and inexplicably, yet undeniably we are all sooooooo much cooler than you.
? Girl apple invented the smart phone ! Not a fan boy but they really did , Samsung do as most Asian companies do and copy something there already! Admittedly android has nice features apple don’t have but vice versa!
Olywin apple people comment without owning an android and genuinely have no idea how far behind apple is nice as phone to call people but so is a 6310
I’ve an s3 in my drawer that I refuse to use cos it’s crap. Used it for a month and went back to an iPhone. iOS is just simpler to use
Never a truer word was spoken. They think their great when android users have bigger screens faster processors and a shed load of other things that I sheep can only dream of.
@Brendan
Android is made by Google, an American company.
Really? Fetchin 250 u should sell it r release its potential its amazing what it can do download any film album etc give it a second chance amazing phones can do more then e mail and make calls
Apple didnt invent the smartphone.
How devastated am I that a faceless troll thinks I’m uncool… Why, why, I may not even sleep tonight…. Hang on, maybe I’ll go get an egg head profile picture, change my name to chicken mcnugget and get lobotomised. Will you let me join your cool club then??? Please??? *sigh*
Brendan, while I won’t argue that Apple invented the smart phone, almost every other manufacturer have overtaken them, Sony, Samsung and HTC in particular. Apple died with Steve Jobs. Plus, it’s the OS they’re copying and that’s Google’s doing, not Samsung and Google are American. Plus, Samsung make almost all of the components for iPhone’s. No argument that they’re trailing badly. Android now way outselling Apple!
“They’re”. If you’re going to spew a mound of bull-crap, at least get the phrasing right.
If anything, it’s the android users who come across as extremely fan-boyish every time the iPhone is mentioned. How pathetic is your life that you feel the need to compete, over phone types?
My god the cult of apple is worse then scientology apple =cool so sad
I have bought 2 Android Tablets, absolute crap! Brought them back and bought iPads! 100 times better!
Oh it’s not turned into one of those sort of threads….
The truth lies in neither google nor apple stealing features from each other but rather from independent developers on both platforms inspiring the dev teams in their respective camps.
So many new features on iOS7 borrow heavily from stuff that has been available on jailbroken iPhones for a long time now.
At the end of the day it’s all only software, if you wanted you can run Android on an iPhone. This debate has gotten so old of Apple vs. it’s nearest competitors. I’m actually beginning to respect windows fanatics for not chiming in on these arguments recently, but then again who actually uses Windows Phone? :p
I have to say I don’t think they are trailing! It’s just a thing of which interface you prefer I suppose! I like apple and my friend likes android ! I like the simplicity of apple and their hardware is great! Any phone that can last two years with me is indestructible!
It’s actually pointless trying to enlighten Apple fanboys. IPhone’s are smartphones for dummies. And as it happens, all the Samsung bashing, firstly, the S4 is the smartest smartphone on the market and secondly, I’m actually not referring to Samsung exclusively as most of you seem to assume, I actually use the Sony Xperia Z which is a way better phone than either the iPhone 4s or the. 5. (I had both) Way more reliable, never requires reboot unlike iPhone, battery life is way better and it’s practically indestructible!
I don’t know a single adult with a sheep phone they all got androids and gave them to their kids
The first smartphone was not invented by Apple. LG VIEWTY was released before apple. Again, apple stealing other companies inventions.
True Diarmuid, they didn’t invent it, just perfected it….
This is for Olwyn and all of the people that replied to her: GET A LIFE! They are just phones FFS.
Yes olwyn, all apple and iPhone users are stupid! You win the argument by insulting people! Good girl!
Why does it need a massive 3.1gig of space ? Like who has that much free space ???
Astronauts have loads. Ba*&ards!!
Don’t use the map application for a couple of days … just in case
1 hour no wait 47 mins, no, 2hrs..wait 1hour again.
I downloaded it. It seems fine. My excitement levels remained steady through out.
Whats n iphone?
Its a phone from 2007
Is tom cruise into apple r scientology cant remember which cult
The android apple love hate forum… My 3GS is too old for iOS 7 and I’m gutted. Apple can’t win anyway regardless of innovations or what some of you term “catching up”. Do I want a big huge screen with a plasticky removable back which can take higher pixel pictures that the human eye can’t even see, and add pointless sound to a picture, while downloading some music illegally? No! I’m perfectly happy with my 3GS and iOS 6! What annoys me even more is Sansung release a new Galaxy something or other every other week and no one complains!!
There is 4 joe not really every week wrote from my i pad mini which i love but apple phones r light years behind my s4. daughter has i phone 3g still a great phone.
Smooth upgrade. iOS 7 is the business, serious upgrade.
Well it did eventually download but after verifying update it says that software update is unavailable and to try again later !!!
Mine did the same!
Keep retrying, will work after a few goes, about 5 times did it for me
Three cans of diet coke and a slab of chocolate to get me through it…just as it updated it crashed my phone switched off…forgot my pin..remembered my pin…verified updated..finally..updated!
The number one thing all the apple lovers state why they love iOS and apple is that “it just works right out of the box! It’s so simple”!
LOL
I know! Folks – Android also “just works” right out of the box. Then on top of that you can do so much more that with Apple. You can leave it simple enough for an iPhone user to figure out, or customize it to your heart’s content. Are iFans resentful that they are stuck in the Apple dungeon and would have to upgrade all of their other toys to be compatible if they switched to one of the better platforms?
Ios7 beta users can’t upgrade yet apparently
Is it possible to watch tv portal have a work i phone sits and stays in car cradle light years behind my s4 new operating system wow unless u have both u wont realise how far behind apple is.
You need to get back to school. You’re far behind most sensible people on the grammar front.
I love this OS!!! It’s amazing and they added all the features the old one was missing..best OS update ever!
Tried it, said 14 hours remaining. Reset device and it continued downloading. And then an error occurred. I’m just gonna wait a few weeks till the bugs are fixed.
Mine downloaded 2 hours, but when I try to install it says”Software updateis not available at this time. Try again later.
Same here! Grrrr
IOS7 android rip off period.
It’s bleedin animal
Freedom = Android .
Why do you think they call it JAIL BROKEN
Apple is for the muppet the Sheep the ones who look at ads and say wow not why.
Enjoy your update to a 2010 Android ui while Android is already setting up kitkat
God bless Steve Jobs turning in his grave at the thought of colourful cheap plastic “new” I phones .
Ios7 Pathetic exhausted chase after Android .
No drastic changes apart from the UI. Lashings of disappointment will be going OTA right now
It only needs 750mb. Do it direct to your phone via fibre power!! About 20 minutes. It is rather different. Like spring breakers. It will grow on us…
Off topic new ios 7 great anyone tell me is it possible to download torrents to i phone 4
You have to jail break it to download torrents, this I would not advise. If you really want torrent movies on your phone put them there via your laptop.
There’s no release version of iOS 7 jailbroken yet and could be weeks/months before there is, if you’re really intent on downloading torrents on your phone, stay on iOS6. Contrary to popular scaremongering it’s neither illegal nor irreversible to jailbreak your iPhone.
Was pretty sure apple take a dim view of it tho,void the warrantee perhaps? Anyway it must take a lot of battery and wifi/3G or whatever to download movies on your phone. I don’t see the point if you have a laptop.
They encourage user not to do it: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3743
It is in violation of the end user license agreement for iOS, but then again, so are many activities users knowingly or unbeknownst to themselves undertake with plenty of software that they use day to day. The only threat Apple has is if you try and get a device serviced with a jailbroken OS on it, they won’t touch it. This is a fairly empty threat as the phone can be restored to its original state pre-jailbreak
In most reports iOS 7 was advertised as a free update , as though there was an outside chance you might have to pay for it!
Took me less than half an hour to download directly to phone over wifi on my UPC happy days installing now :)
I attempted updating directly from my phone and estimated time was 27 hours then after about 40 minutes of waiting it failed. I connected my phone to my laptop to update it and was don in less than 15 minutes :)
It’s like having a new phone all over again
It’s taking ages to download for me. Zzz
Mines gone from 3 hours to 44 minutes back to 2hours
Only took me 17 hours….
It took 3 hours to load ! I deleted tons of stuff but they all magically came back! Job done , no problem
I have tried to download it on several occasions this evening without success. Will try again tomorrow
Trying to upgrade. Keeps on saying ISO 6.1.4 up to date. Really annoying.
Yes their servers are hammered millions try download same time, try couple more times it should cop on I had to try checking for update 4 or 5 times before it offered me upgrade button..or if you’re not dying to have it tonight like me try tomorrow or later surely will work better.
It’s telling me that there’s an error downloading (102) whatever that is. Anyone with the same problem?
Servers are jammers, just leave it for a bit
First world problems or wha’??
Downloaded it overnight, nothing jumps out at me, except the screen does seem magically bigger. Also I’m making less typos. Will have a good root around in it today, that’ll be nice.
What are the benefits of the update?
It’s nice and more function
It took 9 minutes to load over my dad’s wifi and dublin bus to prepare all in all it’s like a new phone and didn’t need to back up…sweet!
I have downloaded it but cannot send emails now, I can only receive them…can somebody help me???
It automatically notify u if u have an iphone 5 and u can upgrade without connecting ur USB to the computer.
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