hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I wanted to show you how to downgrade
from iOS 13 to is 12 maybe you're on the public beta or the
developer beta this guide will show you how to actually go back now there are a
couple things that you have to have in order to do this the first thing is you
will need a Mac or a Windows computer with the latest version of iTunes on it
without that you cannot go back so you will need a computer with the latest
version of iTunes now the other thing to know is that you are going to have to
wipe the phone in order for this to work there is not a way to restore it right
now with saving data I've tried that it actually almost bricked one of my phones
it's the easiest to wipe it and then actually restore the the previous
version and then restore all of your data so that said you'll want to make
sure you have a backup prior to iOS 13 so that you can restore to that that
data so without that data you won't have any of your different files now that
said if you use messages in iCloud or photos and iCloud that information is
stored on the cloud and you should be able to get most of that back regardless
as long as you turn those features back on so I'm going to show you how to do
this now iOS 13 supports the iPhone 6s plus that
I have here and you'll see if we go in here we can flip the dark mode and it's
the latest version of the developer beta so to go back what we'll need to do is
really there's a couple different ways to do this but the easiest way is just
to put the phone in recovery mode in once you put the phone in recovery mode
iTunes will just automatically download the latest update and then install it so
you could use a file like an IP SW firmware file that's the actual file
name that you would install on the phone this is the easier way to do that so I'm
going to show you how to put all of the different devices into recovery mode
there's three different styles of devices one is the iPhone 6s or 6s plus
with a physical home button then you have a seven or 7 Plus and an 8, X,
XS, or XS Max or XR so in order to put an iPhone 6s or 6s plus into
recovery mode we'll go ahead and turn it off now you can jump ahead to the next
ones I'll list them in the description to help you
out power down the phone and in order to put a 6s or 6s plus into recovery mode
hold the home button just hold it down make sure you have iTunes open on your
Mac or Windows computer and then plug in your lightning connector so plug that in
keep holding the home button though when you plug it in you'll see the Apple logo
pop up wait for it here and now you'll see the recovery mode and it's changed
with iOS 13 it's now a little Mac with what looks to be a USB C port or cable
so now this one's in recovery mode now in order to put an iPhone 7 in recovery
mode it's a little bit different again power it down it's already off what you
want to do is hold down the volume down button on the iPhone 7 this is a
jet-black iPhone 7 it looks like an 8 but it's a 7
hold down the volume down button and then go ahead and plug in your phone and
then what you'll do is once you plug it in release the volume down when you see
connect to iTunes pop up so we'll just keep holding it keep holding volume down
here and now we're in recovery mode now with the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, X, XS, XS Max, and XR
it's a little bit different so what you want to do is close iTunes if
you did have it open then go ahead and plug in your lightning cable so we'll
plug this in it will probably pop up iTunes on your
actual computer and then once that's open what you want to do this one is a
little bit different is push volume up volume down and then press and hold the
side button so we're going to press one to hold the side button and then we'll
wait for it it's actually powering off or on here it will power off by itself
you'll see it powered off I'm still holding the side button you'll see the
Apple comes up like that
keep holding the side button and now we're in recovery mode
so again volume up volume down hold the side button now at any time if you need
to get back to or get out of this recovery mode just unplug and then kind
of do the same thing volume up volume down and hold the button and it will do
a hard reset on the phone and that will bring you back so if you haven't
restored yet and you're having an issue that's how you do it so now let's go
ahead and actually restore the phone so I'm going to restore the iPhone and 6s
plus so let's plug this in while holding the home button and get into recovery
mode now that the phone is in recovery mode you'll get this message in iTunes
it says there's a problem with the iPhone that requires it to be updated or
restored go ahead and click update and then we're going to hit update again and
then we'll have to restore it it should pop into this menu by itself so iOS 12
point 3 point 1 is the current latest version of iOS 12 point 3 and let's go
ahead and hit next we'll click agree and then we'll wait for it to download and
then it will start to restore into the iPhone now if you want to see the actual
download status just click this little arrow up here in the upper right so it's
showing you how large the download is it's about 3 gigabytes and I've got
about 76 seconds left of course this will vary depending on your internet
connection so now the phone is rebooting and it will begin to restore the phone
now if you run into the error that I just received you can always try it
again it's not going to hurt anything you'll just click restore from here
again so go ahead and click restore restore and update and it's going to do
the exact same thing and try and restore it again sometimes it takes a couple
tries but just try it again if you're having an issue now after rebooting the
restore is working now sometimes you do need to make sure you're using the right
cable or try a different one if it's not working properly I'm using the same
cable as I was before and I've used it many times but sometimes you may run
into this issue so if that's giving you a problem try swapping your cable as
well so we'll wait for this to restore and we should be back on iOS 12 now you
can see it says iPhone has been restored to the factory settings and it's
restarting now it's restored and it's asking me to setup a new phone on iTunes
although it's still rebooting on the iPhone itself now keep in mind if you
did not turn off Find My iPhone prior to doing this you will need to enter your
iCloud password once it reboots so just keep that in mind you probably have that
since you're installing the beta's anyway but without that it will
activation lock so you'll see the phone has rebooted we're ready to go we can
just hit the home button here we can set it up manually or add it to our account
now this is where you'll either set it up as new or restore from an iCloud
backup if you have a backup you can do that if not set it up as new and then
your data will just come over if you turn on iCloud and things like that and
now we're back to iOS 12 so if we go into settings go to general here then
about now you can we're on iOS twelve point three point
one we're fully restored and back to normal now if you use iCloud you can
just turn on iCloud messages many of these things will restore such as your
photos and just make sure you follow that process and you'll should be back
to iOS twelve point three point one it is a little bit of a pain but if you
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