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The new iOS 4 software was released yesterday for the iPhone. Great I thought, I’ll install that! I’ve got a 16GB 3G iPhone with around 15GB in use. When I pressed the ‘Update’ button a prompt screen appeared to let me know that the process was likely to take an hour, if not longer.
I set the update process going at 8pm last night and 2 hours later I took a look and the progress bar was less than 2%. I thought it had stuck, so I cancelled the process, rebooted my machine and started again. That was at 10pm lst night!
When I got up this morning the the progress bar was at around 85% and the whole process did not finish until just gone 8am this morning! 10 hours to update an iPhone, good job I wasn’t going anywhere!
Why this lenghty process anyway? The iPhone syncs with iTunes, so all of your songs/films and apps are on your computer in the first place. A backup of your device could be a relatively quick affair by flagging the apps that you have installed on your device at the time of backup.
I can’t recall Microsoft Windows ever taking this long to upgrade, no matter which version I upgraded from.