Yep, I followed along with all the other Apple peeps and upgraded both my iPhone and iPad to iOS7 yesterday. Unlike all the media reports about the insanity of trying to perform the upgrade, I really had no issues.
Around 10 AM I upgraded my MacBook Air to MacOS 10.8.5 and iTunes 11.1 (necessary for iOS7). That took about 15 minutes. Then I started the iPhone upgrade, fully expecting a nightmare as every one else was reporting. 15 minutes later my phone was “verifying” the update with Apple. That took about 5 minutes and I was all done on the iPhone 5. Then I started the iPad Mini, that was complete within another 30 minutes.
My one complaint on this front is that I had to use a WiFi network to perform the download/upgrade, instead of AT&T’s LTE network. LTE is quite a bit faster than the WiFi network I was on, although clearly it wouldn’t have made that much difference.
I had no pain, no lost anything, no borked devices, etc. I had to figure out how to turn off background updating for a…
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