Some Apple Fans are Reportedly Experiencing Problems with iOS 9 on Older iDevice Models
From my personal experience, I was able to download Apple's new iOS 9 unto my iPhone 6-Plus, my iPad 2 and my wife's iPhone 5s without a single issue. In fact it was the best download experience of iOS I've had to date. Yet that hasn't been the experience for a significant number of iPhone users, according to a new Reuters report. Some iPhone users are claiming that they've experience crashes. Charlie Brown, a technology expert at Sydney-based Cybershack, said "any number of dissatisfied customers is considered significant in the social media era, particularly following Apple's troubled rollout of iOS 8." At the moment the scope of the problem is unknown.
Twitter and other social media were awash with disgruntled customers reporting two distinct faults, with one appearing to be linked specifically to older models of Apple iPhones and iPads.
"It is beyond inconvenient to not be able to use your phone for a day," said student Pip Cordi as staff in the Apple store in central Sydney looked at her phone on Friday. "I have a lot of apps that I use for school - things like language apps and dictionaries and that's all really important for my studies."
Another iPhone user, Zorry Coates, said she had spent three hours in the Apple store and had been left with the option of either returning her phone to factory settings - losing any non-backed-up data - or waiting until Apple technicians announced an update.
Zorry added that "They said they were aware of the problem and their engineers were working on it 24/7, but they couldn't tell me when - or how - I would get a solution. I'm very annoyed because it's wasted half my day. They pride themselves on being a company that's flawless." For more on this read the full Reuters report.
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