This iOS 5 update will delete all of your apps, media and purchases… thanks

This is not quite the message I wanted to receive when I clicked ‘update’ on iTunes here in Houston this afternoon:

Apparently it’s going to kill everything on the phone apart from the contacts and email messages. Joy.

Hardly useful when I’m thousands of miles away from my main computer. I think I’ll need to wait a few weeks before upgrading my main iPhone. I can’t afford the disruption. Plus it’s not as if I can ‘re-download’ the movies. At least, not yet.

I have, however, brought my Orange iPhone 4 that I use for testing — so I shall be updating that one. Although I’ve just realised that’s got a whole TV series on it that I was planning on watching. Typical. I’ll give that some thought.

Meanwhile, have you done the update to iOS 5? Are you liking it?

Update: I tried to upgrade the Orange phone — that didn’t go too well: