Apple rolled out iOS 10 update to support devices only a few minutes ago and it turns out that those who are trying to update OTA are hit with an error that’s pushing iPhones to recovery mode.
This seems to be a rather common bug at the moment and we’re hearing from our readers that the only way to fix the problem is to connect the iPhone to iTunes and to perform the restore.
Although it’s not yet clear why this is happening, it seems that the OTA update actually attempts to install iOS 10.0, while iTunes downloads and installs iOS 10.0.1 – the same update was released to beta testers last week after the September 7 iPhone 7 launch event.
According to users who were hit with this error, iPhones that attempt to install iOS 10 OTA complete the download process and when restarting for the first time, they are automatically pushed to recovery mode with a message telling them to connect to iTunes.
This is in fact the only way to repair the problem, as iTunes is absolutely mandatory to perform the update to iOS 10. In case a backup does not exist, installing iOS from scratch is the only option.
Beta program for the win
The big question right now is how could this happen given the fact that Apple has released so many beta versions before this public update?
And what’s more surprising is that the iOS 10 update worked perfectly fine for testers and their devices were updated to version 10.0.1 from the very beginning, without an intermediary update to 10.0.
Apple hasn’t yet suspended OTA downloads for iOS 10, although there’s no doubt that it should do that given the big number of iPhones that are rendered useless because of this bug.
We can confirm that this problem is indeed happening on two on our iPhone 6s Plus units here at Softpedia and recovering via iTunes seems to be the only way to go right now.
