
If you don’t have the update installed by November 3rd, though, Apple says over-the-air updates and iCloud backup will also no longer work, since the GPS issue affects iCloud.

Here are Apple’s instructions on how to do that. You can update your phone wirelessly or through your computer before November 3rd. Verizon said that the GPS accuracy on any device built between 20 could be impacted, and published a list of affected devices here.įortunately, for most devices there’s an easy fix: just update. Apple says the iPhone 4S, first-generation iPad mini, iPad 2, and fourth- and third-gen iPad will need an update to keep their GPS working accurately, although other functions should continue to work if you forget to update.

Newer devices have been designed to adapt to the rollover, according to Ars Technica, and it might only be your GPS accuracy that gets affected by the bug, if you’re affected at all. Clocks have stopped Apple products before
