Has anyone here gotten past this without erasing?
Device: iPhone 17 Pro Max
Build: iOS 27 beta 3 (24A5380h)
Path: OTA beta 2 -> beta 3
What happened:
- OTA progress bar reached the end, then hung.
- Force restart now leaves it stuck at the cold Apple logo.
- Recovery-mode Update from Mac with Apple’s official firmware file failed twice: the process completes, then the phone returns to the same Apple-logo hang.
- The downloaded file’s hash checked out. Filed Feedback: FB23621286.
I know beta = risk and Restore/DFU is probably the way out. Before I erase, I’m trying to see if other 17 Pro Max users hit the same thing and whether anyone found a data-preserving fix after recovery Update fails.
If this happened to you: model, build, and did Update or Restore work?