PSA: Back up your devices before attempting to update them

"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn) 09/20/2017 at 16:21 • Filed to: None

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Yes, the update temporarily bricked my device. Yes, I backed up my device before attempting to update it. Everything got recovered since I backed up right before attempting the update, but there was a bit of concern.

Nibbles > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/20/2017 at 16:24

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I live dangerously. The only thing I’m gonna lose is pictures nobody should be seeing anyway

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/20/2017 at 16:24

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There are two types of computer users: those who have lost data, and those who will lose data.

Are you taking about the iOS 11 update? I rarely if ever use iTunes any more, but I always to a complete backup to iTunes before updating our phones. I don’t trust the cloud to keep everything.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 09/20/2017 at 16:36

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Yep, iOS 11. Something borked in my first attempt to update and it looked like my phone was bricked. After restarting my computer (?) I was able to factory reset / update / restore the phone with no loss of anything.

In related news, once I had an update fail and require a reset of the phone. I had forgotten to do a fresh backup that time so lost a week or so worth of pictures.

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/20/2017 at 16:43

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Let us know what you think of the OS. I am not an early adopter. I’ll wait a couple of weeks before updating. The new Safari 11 is out also. Haven’t updated that yet either.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/20/2017 at 17:06

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The other night I told my phone to update my apps and the damn thing bricked.

notsomethingstructural > ttyymmnn 09/20/2017 at 17:16

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I know the feeling I spent yesterday updating to ios10

ttyymmnn > notsomethingstructural 09/20/2017 at 17:19

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I’m slow, but not quite that slow.

Rico > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/20/2017 at 18:32

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An iOS 10.x update did that to my phone and I did back up mostly everything except my photos which I backup manually via Photos on my Mac. I hadn’t backed up my photos in months. I thought I lost all my pictures I was TIGHT. But turns out these phones are not easy to brick and though it looked bricked (plug into iTunes logo) when it finally completed the update via iTunes everything was normal and all my pictures were still there. Now I’m super diligent about backing up my photos.