# Trying to update iPad to IOS8

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-update-ipad-to-ios8/704118>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 9, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-update-ipad-to-ios8/704118 "2014-11-09T02:52:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hayden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/91b2a8/32.png) [@Hayden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hayden)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-update-ipad-to-ios8/704118/21 "2014-11-14T02:35:27Z")

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> [@MovieMogul](#):
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> So the syncing occurred (the iPad went beep) but nothing seems to have changed. Under Settings–General doesn’t have any of the updated options that I should. Grrrrrrr.

If you go to Settings–\>General–\>About, which software version does it say?

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-update-ipad-to-ios8/704118/22 "2014-11-14T04:56:04Z")

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Well, after being on hold for about 45 minutes, finally got someone from Apple’s help desk to walk me through the procedure and lo-and-behold, I’m finally done! New IOS (8.1) set up, Skype working again (it wasn’t because of the old OS) and even set up her iCloud account (she didn’t have one earlier) and loaded all her pictures on it.

Thanks again to everyone for helping me out.

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