How to Fix Unable to Verify Update iPhone iOS 16

Updating iPhone to latest iOS version is recommended and if you are running iPhone iOS outdated version then you may face issues with your iPhone and have iPhone laggy or responding slow or apps keeps crashing or any other issue and when you try to update your iPhone to latest version and you are getting an error message unable to verify update iOS 16 error in pop up box, then you can fix iPhone software issue easily. So, let’s see in detail below.

Sometimes, you may experience issues when updating iphone like software update failed on iOS 16 or stuck on logo during iphone update or update failed and error occurred while downloading iPhone update or any other update issues like cellular data failed during update issues as well.

Fix Unable to Verify Update iOS 16

Below iphone update troubleshooting methods will help you fix cant or unable to verify update on iOS 16 or any software update failed issues on iPhone iOS 16.

Set Date and Time to Automatic

Step 1: Open settings on iPhone

Step 2: Tap on General

Step 3: Tap on Date and time

Step 4: Turn on Set Automatically and if you have already set date and time to automatic here, then you need to turn off set automatically and turn on set date and time to automatic.

Once you set date and time to automatic then go ahead and update your iPhone and your issue of unable to verify update on iPhone iOS 16 will be resolved.

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Delete and ReDownload Update

Step 1: Launch settings app on iPhone 

Step 2: Tap on General

Step 3: Tap on iPhone Storage

Step 4: Scroll down and tap on iOS 16.

Step 5: Tap on Delete Update.

Step 6: Select Delete Update in pop up box and confirm delete iOS 16.

Step 7: Now, go ahead and update your iphone to iOS 16 again.

Once you delete iOS 16 and update your iphone to iOS 16 then your issue of unable to verify update error while updating iPhone to iOS 16 will be fixed and it will update to latest version iOS 16 successfully.

Reset Network Settings

Step 1: Launch Settings app and then tap on General

Step 2: Tap on Transfer or Reset and reset network settings.

Step 3: Now, enter your iPhone passcode and confirm reset network settings.

Step 4: Wait for your iphone to reset network settings.

Once you reset network settings, then if any issue with your network causing this issue of cant verify update on iPhone iOS 16 will be fixed successfully.

Delete Unwanted File and Free up internal Storage

If you are not having enough internal storage space and update your iphone to latest version ios 16 then iphone will try to download ios 16 and if you dont have enough storage space then update will failed and will cause unable to verify update iOS 16 error and you need to delete videos, files, photos, or unwanted apps and free up internal storage space and then update your iphone iOS 16 and your will be able to update your iPhone to iOS 16 successfully.

Charge your iPhone

If you are not having enough  charging on your iphone then you may experience this issue and you need to connect your iphone to power source and charge your iphone and update your iphone once it gets charged.

Reset All Settings

If none of the above solution works for you then you need to reset all settings, which will restore all your settings to its default settings and this wont delete any data and it will only restore its settings to its original default factory settings and then update your iphone and you will not get unable to verify iphone update failed error when updating iphone to iOS 16, 15 or 14 etc.

Why does my iPhone keep say unable to verify update?

This can happen when you try to download and update your iphone to iOS 16 and download have been interrupted due to wifi internet connection or network related issues and you need to delete old iOS 16 and then redownload and update your iphone to iOS 16.

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