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The update was pulled.

Problem is, if you were quick on the draw and updated as soon as it came out, there's no ipsw for the iPhone 6/+ on the dev center. Though the solution is to restore to last known good, LKG is not available through the usual channels.



Yeah, made that same discovery. I'm going to guess that Apple ops has a "big red button" to pull a release with problems, and that doesn't discriminate between distribution methods. Unfortunate, but makes sense until they can fully triage the problem.

My heart goes out to those unknown folks at Apple who are now having a really bad day. I doubt we'll get it, but I'd love to read a post-mortem of this event. I suspect it'd be educational, as I have a hard time imagining how an org like Apple could ship a release this obviously broken.


Too late to EDIT, so I'll reply to my own post. There are 8.0 images available from Apple, just not publicized on Apple's website. iPhone 6: http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS8/031-05647.20140917.b0n9s/iPho... iPhone 6 Plus: http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS8/031-05555.20140917.YWW0v/iPho...

Caveat: I have not tested these myself, nor has anyone on my team. We are holding off until we deem it necessary to get the devices working again (an enthusiastic tester who was quick on the draw this morning managed to hose our only two iPhone 6 devices.)




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