Eager iPhone owners upgrading their handsets to Apple’s new software are being greeted with a nasty surprise: phones locked up thanks to the system’s activation procedure, and Apple’s inability to cope with millions of upgraders at once.
The screenshot to the right is greeting iPhone owners all over the world, as Apple’s servers struggle to keep up with activation requests from old and new iPhones alike.
The result is an iPhone stuck in limbo. It’s got the new software on board, but without being activated by Apple’s servers, it’ll only make emergency calls.
The company is aware of the problem, but with millions of iPhones being updated at the same time, it’s unlikely to be fixed any time soon.
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