hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
i want to show you how to downgrade from
ios 15 to ios 14
properly using apple's official method
now there are other ways to do this i've
covered them in separate videos and i
can link that in the description as the
method is very similar
but may help you restore differently
however this is the way that you should
do it according to apple that will cause
you the least amount of problems in the
future
now there's a couple things we need to
know before we get started is we'll need
a windows computer running itunes the
latest version
or a mac running the latest version of
mac os for your device
if you have those things you're good to
go but there is one other thing to note
is if you are going to downgrade but
you've already updated your watch to
watch os
8 beta 1 or public beta for example or
beta 2 depending on what version you're
on
you should not be downgrading ios 15 to
14 as you'll no longer be able to have
the phone and watch pair properly
according to apple
they recommend against restoring your
iphone to a previous version because of
this
there's no way to downgrade watch os 8
to watch os 7 without sending it into
apple so just keep that in mind before
we get started
now before we get started i just want to
make you aware that downgrading from ios
15 to ios 14 will completely remove
everything and erase the device so make
sure that you have a backup
because everything will be removed no
matter what method you use to downgrade
you will always have to restore from a
backup so make sure you have a backup on
icloud from the previous version ios
14.6 is the current version at the time
of this video
as long as you have a backup from that
version or older you can restore
so that's just completely normal you can
do that in itunes as well just make sure
it's an older version
now like i said you'll need a computer
but before we do that
let's talk about our backups because if
you installed ios 15 before i did a
separate video where i said make sure
you do a backup before you install the
beta
and the reason for that is there are
ways to restore from ios 15
backups but they're not the official
method they can cause problems
and they require editing on a computer
of files that are in sort of obscure
places
now it's possible like i said i linked
that video in the description
but i don't recommend doing that i don't
do that for my own devices
so if you do use your iphone and use
icloud though most of that information
is just going to sync now that we have
things like icloud and messages
so under settings tap on your name at
the top tap on
icloud under icloud we'll give it just a
moment
under icloud you'll see i have all of
these different things checked for
icloud
so messages in icloud these will just
sync across devices
so that's kind of already done in the
background our bookmarks and different
things for safari
contacts and icloud mail they're already
synced in the cloud
you can go to icloud.com to verify that
they're there
so this will not affect any of the
information on icloud.com or synced to
icloud already
now in order to restore this to a
previous version we need to connect it
to our computer
so grab your lightning cable that's
connected to your computer and go ahead
and plug it in
then we'll go over to the mac make sure
it's trusted that you've already trusted
it if you haven't
just tap on trust put in your passcode
and then click on finder
and then your iphone on the left if
you're in itunes click on your phone on
the left and you'll have a similar
screen to this
it will show your iphone your current
version and you'll have a restore button
but you can't do this just yet you
actually need to put your phone into
recovery mode
now this is a little bit different
depending on device so
if you have an iphone 6s or 6s plus and
earlier or ipod touch for example you'll
need to put this into recovery mode
by holding the sleep wake button and
home button at the same time
while it's plugged in to your computer
so you can do that by holding both of
them let me show you that
and i'll show you for each version of
device so we'll plug in the iphone 6s
plus
now it's trusted and you can see this is
on ios 15 as well
so what we need to do is hold the sleep
wake button
and home button at the same time and
don't release them until it reboots so
we're going to press both of those
we'll keep holding it will take just a
moment
and give it a moment you see it
disappeared from the mac
again keep holding and you want to keep
holding until it shows up
in your device and this is recovery mode
so you can update or restore your iphone
so you have these options here now i
don't want to do this
i'm going to reboot it by holding both
buttons again
the power sleep wake and home button
will give it a reboot and it should
bring us back to where we were
so we'll let it reboot and now we'll
boot up again
and we'll just let go as soon as we see
the apple logo and you can see we're
back to the screen where we put in our
passcode
and now we're back to the home screen so
you can jump right out of recovery mode
if you need to
now with the iphone 7 and 7 plus it's a
little bit different you're going to
press and hold the sleep wake and volume
down buttons at the same time to do the
same recovery method
so again plug it in once it's plugged in
you're going to hold the volume down and
the power sleep wake button this is
specific to the iphone
7 and 7 plus so just keep holding
and again it will reboot into recovery
mode so we'll give it just a moment
and now we're in recovery mode so just
keep holding those buttons on the 7 and
7 plus
now for the iphone 8 8 plus and newer
the instructions are exactly the same in
order to get it into recovery mode
so again the first thing we need to do
is plug in our computer using the
lightning cable
wait for everything to be trusted and
for it to show up on your computer
once you have that what we want to do is
go to our phone and then we're going to
press
volume up volume down and then press and
hold the power sleep awake button
so we'll do that so volume up volume
down press and hold power sleep wake
and keep holding it so just keep holding
it it will reboot into recovery mode
it takes just a moment but we'll do this
in real time so you can see what it's
like
and so we'll keep holding power sleep
wake
wait for it to reboot here you'll see
the apple logo
keep holding and it should take just a
moment and then go into recovery mode
so again we're still waiting for it and
there we go
now we're in recovery mode so now we can
click on
restore iphone so we can either click on
restore right here
or we can cancel this and click restore
either way we'll do the same thing so go
ahead and click restore
now this will take a little while
depending on if it's downloaded the
latest version or not
because it actually has to download the
previous version ios 14.6 at this point
or whatever is the current public
version so again restore an update
then you have to agree to the terms and
you'll see in this case it shows ios
14.6
then we'll click next then we'll click
agree
and we'll wait for it here now it says
iphone recovery mode
and it's downloading our update it's
going to take a little bit depending on
your internet connection so this could
be very quick
or it could be slow you'll see it's 5.73
gigabytes in the case of by phone
now once your computer is done restoring
the update to the iphone you'll get this
message that says your iphone has been
restored to factory settings and is
restarting
please leave it connected and as you can
see on the iphone it's restoring now
it took about eight minutes or so to get
to this point after the update was
downloaded
so it can be a little bit longer
depending on the device if it's an older
device it can take longer sometimes
now everything's done restoring and if
you backed up in icloud before you no
longer need your computer however if you
connected via
itunes and then backed up that way
you'll need your computer to restore it
now let's go ahead and swipe up
and then go to english and set this up
for myself so we'll go to my country
here
and then set it up for me so we'll go to
quick start and just like setting up a
new iphone you want to walk through the
normal setup process
now you'll get to the point where it
says activation lock put in your
username and password for icloud and
you're good to go
now we'll set up face id and face id and
touch id are saved securely to a chip on
the iphone so that's why it can't
restore that information
it's never shared with apple we need to
agree to the terms of service
now at this point we can restore from an
icloud backup restore from a mac or pc
using itunes or
finder we can transfer directly from
another iphone
or we can move data from android or not
transfer anything at all and set this up
as new
i'm going to restore from an icloud
backup and it will bring up the last
backups
from either this device or associated
devices so you can see other backups
from an ipad for example if you want to
move those over
or even older backups as well if you're
using icloud
now if you're not using icloud you'll
need to use your computer however you'll
see a couple grayed out options here and
these are
backups that i wouldn't recommend trying
to install it won't allow you and that's
for a reason
there is a workaround method for this
i've shown it in a different video but i
wouldn't recommend that as it can cause
problems later on
normally i would just go with whatever
is the most recent for your iphone
so we'll go ahead and select this one
which was the most recent
and it will take a moment and it says
settings from your backup it will bring
over the settings or we can just leave
them alone i'll hit continue
we can set up apple pay i'll set it up
later
we can improve siri and dictation i'll
hit not now
you can share app analytics this is up
to you and now it's going to restore
from icloud now this is going to take
some time it depends on your internet
connection it also depends on how large
the backup was from before so i'll let
this restore
and we'll come back when it's done now
once your device restores and reboots
this took me about five or six minutes
now it's going to vary depending on your
internet connection
and how much data you have in your
backup but let's go ahead and unlock
this the first time it reboots you'll
need to put in your passcode
and you can see it's restoring apps now
this can take some time it really just
depends on what your internet connection
speed
is as well as how much data you had but
everything from your messages that were
in icloud should carry back over
and be from the backup and you can see
my mail accounts are already working so
sometimes you'll have to put in a
password again but you'll see my mail is
there
we have the old weather app back and
also you can see if we go to the control
center we're back to do not disturb we
don't have our different focus modes
if we go into settings we go to general
then about
you can see that we're back to ios 14.6
and it's the latest public release
so everything is being restored it will
take some time to to restore everything
here
but we're back to the previous version
if we weren't happy with ios 15. now one
other thing i wanted to mention is if
you're using photos in icloud
they will restore it will just take some
time so if we go in you'll see it's
restoring them now
it takes some time it loads them
depending on your internet connection
and everything will eventually be there
it could take a few hours though or days
depending on the speed of your
connection generally it will take
probably a couple hours for me though so
hopefully that helped you out
and this is the official method like i
said there are other ways to get your
backups working on here
and i would always recommend making a
backup before installing any new version
so that you have one to revert back to
if you need to
let me know if that helped you in the
comments below now if you'd like to get
your hands on the wallpaper i had with
ios 15. i'll link that in the
description below
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as always thanks for watching this is
aaron i'll see you next time
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