Apple's iOS 5 made its debut this afternoon, and fans quickly jumped at the chance to upgrade their OS. All that activity, however, apparently hosed Apple's systems, with many users reporting long wait times, cancelled updates, and more.
In Apple's forums, those who jumped on the download quick—within minutes of the 1pm Eastern release time—had few problems ("I downloaded and installed in about 12 minutes," wrote one). But as more and more people got wind of its availability and tried to download, the wait times ballooned.
"My current download is as follows: 10.8MB of 778.4MB, 39 Hours remaining. Think yourselves lucky!" wrote one person. Others reported timing out after getting 600MB or 400MB into the process. "Never had this before with any of the apple updates, also tried using icloud all seems to go well, then had 'error in moving mail,' try later," said one user.
Some received Error Code 3200 when updating from iOS 4.3.5 to iOS 5. "Just keep trying. On my 8th attempt it worked!!" one person said.
Here at PCMag, junior analyst Jill Duffy was able to access iOS 5 minutes after it emerged, but software analyst Michael Muchmore had a bit more trouble later in the afternoon; though the download appeared to be complete, it was not, forcing him to quit.
Our colleagues in the tech space faced similar challenges. SearchEngineLand's Danny Sullivan was met with "An error occurred when restoring this iPhone."
"Common iOS upgrade errors we're hearing: download installation errors, probably apple server issues. Deleted apps, music, photos, folders," Cult of Mac also tweeted.
How did you do? Were you able to upgrade? Let us know in the comments.
For more, see How to Get Apple's iOS 5 as well as PCMag's full review of iOS 5 and the slideshow below, which highlights 10 of its best features.