{"id":2328,"date":"2020-09-02T04:07:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T08:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2020-09-02T04:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T08:07:21","slug":"downgrading-from-ios-14-beta-to-ios-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/downgrading-from-ios-14-beta-to-ios-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Downgrading from iOS 14 beta to iOS 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent several hours on this (restoring from an old computer), so here&#8217;s how I was able to restore iOS 13 (the current, non-beta iOS release). First things first, I backed up my iPhone to my computer <strong>before<\/strong> installing iOS 14 beta 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First attempt<\/strong> (did not work)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My iPhone backup was under iOS 13.6. Version 13.6.1 had been released, but I did not update my phone to it. I installed iOS 14 beta 6 using Apple&#8217;s profile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I decided to downgrade to iOS 13, I removed the beta profile on my phone in Settings. I tried to follow <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT203282\">Apple&#8217;s guide<\/a> for removing the developer beta. The instructions for putting your device in recovery mode was confusing. I found that I had to hold the Side button for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After plugging in my phone, I think I clicked &#8220;Restore Backup&#8221;. iTunes told me that it had to download 13.6.1 first. I clicked through the notice and assumed that iTunes was going to restore my 13.6 backup and update my phone to 13.6.1. Sure, ok, iTunes do the thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 hours later, my phone was restored, but it was still on the latest iOS 14 beta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second attempt<\/strong> (success)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>iOS 13.7 had just come out. So I downloaded the 13.7 .ipsw file at <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/download\/release\/#ios-restore-images-iphone-new\">https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/download\/release\/#ios-restore-images-iphone-new<\/a>. Also, I logged out of Find My (iPhone).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After connecting my phone to my computer, I opened iTunes and shift-clicked (PC) on &#8220;Restore iPhone&#8230;&#8221;. <strong>Warning: this wipes your iPhone.<\/strong> I found my downloaded .ipsw file for iOS 13.7 and let iTunes format my phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With my phone on 13.7, I went back to iTunes to &#8220;Restore Backup&#8221; using my 13.6 backup. 3 hours later, my phone is back on iOS 13!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent several hours on this (restoring from an old computer), so here&#8217;s how I was able to restore iOS 13 (the current, non-beta iOS release). First things first, I backed up my iPhone to my computer before installing iOS 14 beta 6. First attempt (did not work) My iPhone backup was under iOS 13.6. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1456,1457,1458,484,1435,1455,1206],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-1456","tag-1457","tag-backup","tag-beta","tag-developer","tag-downgrade","tag-itunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}