Apple actually tries to rate-limit the notifications to prevent this, but you can just manually go check and hit the upgrade button yourself. It's pretty well-known that Apple likes to release ~10am, so tens (hundreds?) of millions of users did just that. Since this update is available for all iThingies made in the last 4-ish years that means a lot of extra traffic.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Justin M. Streiner <strei...@cluebyfour.org > wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > Can someone please explain to a non-Apple person what the hell happened >> that started generating so much traffic? Perhaps I missed it in this >> thread, but I would be curious to know what iOS 7 implemented that >> caused this... >> > > I think this was just the traffic to download iOS 7 to everyones' relevant > Apple devices. I don't know how large the update was (maybe a few hundred > MB per device?), but I guess everyone got the notification or their devices > started automatically downloading around the same time. The vast majority > of the traffic here (large .edu) happened between about 1 and 5 PM > yesterday. > > jms > >