Hi,
I have an iPhone 6 Plus with iOS9 beta. My phone was starting to run very sluggish so I held the Home & Power Buttons to do a reset. Apon reset I have the 'Hello' Screen appearing and asking me to activate my phone. I only have access to Cellular (No Wifi) but it will not reactivate. I also am no where near my computer with my itunes back up o it. I need my phone but am locked out.
Any Help would be greatly appreciated.
i have the exact same problem!!!
I just started experiencing this as well! iPhone 6 here.
I had the exact same problem on my iPhone 5. I tried deactivating my "find my iphone" in order to restore it to a last backup. But even after doing it using the iCloud web site. iTunes won't let me do anything.
I also could never upgrade to any of the other beta versions. I received notifications about them. But they never worked when I ran software upgrade.
Before my phone went rouge on me. I sent a feedback about my updating system problem to Feedback Assistant. In a spam of 30 minutes to 1 hour my phone stopped working. which all happened about 2hrs 30 min ago.
Thats Weird. It was about the same time mine went haywire. And I also had received notification messages about upgrading to a new version of iOS but it kept saying I had the latest and it would not allow me to update.
I'm stuck at work in the middle of nowhere without my phone. Please I hope someone can help with how to fix it.
I have the same problem except its my ipad mini , im so upset, this makes no since at all. apple please fix this issue 😠
I have talked to Apple support and they said they dont actually have support for iOS 9 beta because it's out yet. The only way to get my phone going again was by restoring it to the last point I had it without the iOS 9. Maybe that would help you too
Update: I was able to get my phone reactivated by re-downloading the iOS 9 Beta 5 installer from the Apple Developer site and installed it as an "update" (not "restore") on my phone. I still had to go through the re-activation step, but it worked. The software update settings still says I'm up-to-date, but for the moment I've stopped receiving the "You must update" alerts, and the dreaded "This beta has expired" screen.
Could you let me know how you achieved the install as an 'Update'? Im still stuck but this might be the best alternative ill have until I get home to restore my backup.
That is the plan but my backup is on my computer at home and I am at work (I work away from home) so it will be ages before I am able to restore my backup I made prior to installing the Beta.
i got access to wifi. My beta of iOS 9 has expired. Nice to see I got no notification that it was going to happen and now I'm stuck without a phone. A simple message of expiry approaching would have been nice.
Has this also. Easily fixed but pretty scary.
1) Download the latest iOS version for your device from the downloads page.
2) Unpack the archive.
3) Ensure you have updated to the latest version of iTunes
4) Connect your iphone (which is likely saying iOS has expired, it won't activate or allow you to backup to iTunes or iCloud)
5) Control click or command click (depending if Windows or Mac) to open the iOS 9 Beta 5 image IPSW file from the "Update" button.
6) Read and follow all onscreen prompts, note they say "Update" and NOT "Restore". If they do say "Restore", stop, you have gone wrong.
My phone rebooted, went into what looked like recovery, sat there for five minutes and looked as if it hung, then rebooted. The computer said it timed out but the phone then offered "Swipe to upgrade", I did this and was back up and running. 30 minute procecure (excluding downloading image file)
7) Take a fresh backup and confirm iCloud backups are still functioning (mine were not).
I didn't loose any data or settings - thankfully! It was just like an over air patch update rather than a full install, something I didn't realise could be done via iTunes. I was doing all of this from a Windows laptop. I went from Public Beta 1 to Developer Beta 5 on a iPhone 6 Plus.
tthank you so much for that. I don't want to loose any photos or anything on my phone so I will give this a try as soon as I can. Is there a specific place I need to download the latest beta? Or will this work to downgrade (back to iOS 8.4) without loosing anything?
I doubt you can go backwards. The issue is Beta 1 of iOS 9 has expired. So you need to download Public Beta 3 or Developer Beta 5 and upgrade.
hello Neil. could you advise how to download the latest ios version from a PC? I can't seem to get anything to happen when clicking download on the download button on the apple developers website
maybe I'm looking in the wrong place ?
Hello Flow,
I have axactly the same problem? You find a place to download it?
Many thanks!
Sandro
