There have been widespread complaints from Apple users about the latest software for iPhones and iPads amid lengthy delays in downloading the new features.
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| An Apple iPhone with iOS 7 software, left, is displayed next to an iPhone with the older iOS 6 operating system. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP |
Customers took to Twitter to complain about problems in downloading iOS 7 on to their mobile devices after the update came online at 6pm BST.
The new operating system overhauls the look of iPhones and iPads and brings in a number of new navigation features – the biggest change in the look of the software since the iPhone was launched in 2007.
Some users claimed the download – which required a Wi-Fi signal – was taking a number of hours to complete.
"iOS8 will be available by time iOS7 finish updating," said one user, DJ Melo. Elle Lake (lizzylake) said: "43 minutes remaining to download iOS 7.0 but now 10 minutes later there is an error, and I have to upload it again with another 2 hour wait".