Why does the iphone update take so long? 3 hours? Wth?

Why does the iphone update take so long? 3 hours? Wth?

Added (1). Dfwteddybear: i updated itunes and backedup my phone

If you have a slow internet connection, then yes it could take that long.
It also might be hung. Hopefully you updated your computer's iTunes before you updated your iPhone and did a backup before updating your iPhone.

It shouldn't take so long now, mine took like 2 hours. I left mine to update and went to eat dinner and came back and it had stopped updating. So I did it again and it took 2 hours.
Don't worry about it although it is annoying -.

25 min total from start to finish on an iPhone 4 I recently repaired

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