Many of
the Apple devices like iPhone 7, macbook and iPad users are facing issue while
connecting the iPhone to macbook. When users connects the iPhone to mac it not
charging continuously and dropping the connection and after while mac first gives
a pop up saying "A software update
is required to connect to your iOS device. Would you like to download and
install this update now?"
When iPhone
or mac users click the prompt to download the update, a progress bar loads and
get another error message get another error: "Can't install because it's not currently available from Software Update
server". Due to this users you won’t be able to perform some of the
basic features on the iPhone and mac like charging, restore or sync. The iPhone
will vacillates between charging and not charging when plugged in.
The
issue is reported with iPhone X and iPhone 7,6s, iPad pro majorly running on the latest iOS 12 and iOS 12.0.1
when connecting iPhone to iTunes or mac gives error “Can't install because it's
not currently available from Software Update server.” The issue is very
frequent to many users and that same warning repeatedly on is so annoying!
How to fix “Can't install because it's not currently
available from Software Update server”
Fix 1: Force restart your iPhone
A hard reset to your iPhone can possibly fix
the issue and iphone should be able to connect to mac. But please not the issue
may reappear again. In which case please proceed to Fix 2 as shown below.
Fix 2: Install Xcode on mac
Installing
XCode will fix the issue on your mac. Xcode is apple is iOS software development
SDK used by developers and seems to be working solution to fix “Can't install
because it's not currently available from Software Update server.”
1.
Open Appstore (link) in your mac
2.
Search Xcode
3.
Install the Xcode, please note it’s a big file
of almost 5GB.
4.
Launch Xcode and check if loads fine
5.
You may now close Xcode
6.
Open Itune and connect the iPhone
7.
iPhone should connect fine now
Please
not you can also install the lastet Beta version of Xcode in case the official
version did not help you.
Fix 3: Update to iOS
It is
possible that Apple Engineer are aware of the issue and working on it. Please
always consider update iOS of your iPhone to get latest fixes.
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