Apple Releases iOS 10.3.3, macOS 10.12.6, watchOS 3.2.3, and tvOS 10.2.2

Hi. I've got 2 iOS devices, an iPhone 7 and an iPad Minnie 4. The iPad Minnie 4 updated to 10.3.3 successfully, but my iPhone 7 is stuck at the point of the install where it's verifying the update, and I can't do anything with it. I would reboot the phone accept i'm terrified that it would make things even worse. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to fix this I'd be most greatful!

I finally got iOS 10.3.3 installed, but it took a lot of cursing, and putting my phone into DFU mode to get it to work. So, if the update downloads to your phone ok, but if it takes forever and ever and ever to verify the update, put your phone into DFU mode using iTunes and in a minute or two you should see an installation screen with an install now, or later buttons. I double-tapped on the install now button and that did the trick. The phone went silent for a few minutes but it came back and all works well again. Sorry to hijack the topic but if anyone else has trouble with the update, that's how I was able to fix it.

Well if you go to news app and read an article and go out voiceover still says unread. it is sad that apple is not taking the time to fix this problem. I take it we will need to wait for Ios 11.

I am a bit worried about updating. I am still back on 8.13 with my iphone 5s. I want to get this seeing AI and so will need to upghrade, but sweatin' it! Any advice?
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I guess I may have been one of the lucky ones as I had no issues whatsoever updating my iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV. The only little hickup I had was with my Mac. Being a newbie to the Mac, wasn't sure if all would go well, and I thought all had gone well but after using Seeing AI (love this app by the way), found that there was an error message on the screen and since VoiceOver wasn't on, after enabling it, realized it was something to do with iTunes not being able to validate or something. So I just went back to the updates tab in the App Store and tried it again. This time, all went well and my Mac updated without a hitch. All and all, wasn't so bad of an update. Although I do find that they seem to take longer and longer to update each time though. Perhaps that is just me but I typically just leave them be and pray to the Apple gods and hope all goes well.

For some odd reason I still seem to be having a problem with these updates. They're not coming to my system until like a week later and I don't know why. But I was able to update iTunes this morning, and it's working well. I'm currently listening to one of my CD's. Will try and update either at my parents' place or my uncle's when I am down there this weekend. He and my aunt let me use their wifi the last time I was there. Perhaps this is TMI for everyone, lol! But suffice it to say I'm gonna contact Apple support again about these delayed updates, and perhaps my ISP.

@Ekaj try performing a clean install of Sierra. It sounds like something is seriously wrong with your installation. Do you only get this issue on one wi-fi network or is it everywhere you connect?

Hi,

This comment is for the person who said that they have slow updates. Do you have your ios. device attached to a carrier (At&T, Verizon etc.)? I know this only usually happens with Android, because there's so many manufactures that make phones and tablets with Android. If you have your device on a carrier, then it could be that the carrier has the update to make sure it doesn't break any devices on their network. Then it gets pushed to you, once it's confirmed to not causing problems with the network. I'd contact your carrier if you have your ios. device on one, because some carriers have gotten in the way of updates being pushed out to phones for software. I know that doesn't happen much with Apple, since they're the only company that makes the devices, so they have some leverage, clout and weight with carriers for this reason.

Or maybe with your ios. updates, you'll also get an update from your carrier too, so maybe they're combining the two. Hope this helps!

The update went smooth as a baby's bottom here on my 64GB iPhone SE.

Ok, this is pretty minor, but I did find a nice little bug fix in 10.3.3. I have my iPhone 7 set to auto-lock after three minutes of inactivity. In previous versions of iOS, after three minutes, VoiceOver would say "screen dimmed" and then almost immediately the phone would lock. This was rather annoying because, if I was doing something like listening to audio, and didn't want the phone to lock, I had no opportunity to flick or do something to keep the phone awake after the screen dimmed message. In 10.3.3, their is now like a fifteen or twenty second delay between screen dimmed and the phone locking. This is a nice fix and very useful for me.
Jim

Hello all!

I really hope someone can help me with this I have a MacBook Pro mid 2012 I was just wondering does Sierra slow down the Mac that is this old? Do any of you have a 2012 or close in year? I would really like to update but really do not want my Mac to slow down I am currently running Yosemite thank you for anyone who can help!!!

Hi. Yes this does seem to be happening everywhere I've connected my Mac, although I haven't been able to connect many places so it's kinda hard to tell. But I will try a clean install and see what happens. I'm wondering if perhaps this is somehow related to the email issue I've been experiencing. Although, I did contact my ISP yesterday and the email problem seems to be resolved. I'm not 100% sure though, because I've not been at my computer most of the day.

Well, just this morning I tried a manual install of 10.12.6 and low and behold, it worked. I did a clean install last night so we'll see what happens with future updates. I'm also doing regular backups via Time Machine. Fingers crossed that last night's clean install did the trick. As far as the update itself, I have yet to really play around with it but thus far it seems to be working as prescribed.