hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I wanted to show you how you can go from
iOS 14 back to iOS 13 so maybe you're running an iOS 14 beta or maybe iOS 14
is now out by the time you're watching this video and you want to roll back to
iOS 13 while you still can I'm going to show you how to do that
step by step now the first thing you'll need to have is either a Mac running the
latest version of Mac OS or a previous version with the latest version of
iTunes installed on it or you can use Windows with the latest version of
iTunes as well now the first thing you'll need to know though is that
you'll have to wipe your phone in order to actually restore it to the previous
version properly I've tried to update the phone not restoring the phone and
not wiping all the data first and that doesn't seem to work properly so you
want to restore the phone and then we'll install the backup back onto the phone
or restore it it's not that difficult of a process but I wanted to show you how
to do that now if you already have a backup from iOS 13.5
13.5 depending on when you're watching this and which versions
available you'll be able to restore an older backup to that version however you
cannot restore a backup that's newer to an older version so for example if you
have a backup of iOS 14 and you want to restore it to iOS 13.5.1
for example you won't be able to do that using iCloud backup however we can
do that on the computer side so if you already have an older backup you're
happy to restore that you're good to go otherwise you want to backup your phone
to the computer and wait for that to complete before proceeding to the next
step now if you want to backup iOS 14 for future use maybe you want to go back
and get your information later on just go to settings go to your name at the
top then go to iCloud then scroll down until you see iCloud backup once you see
iCloud backup tap on that and then tap on backup now this will back it up to
the cloud and then you'll have a current snapshot so if you ever want to go back
to iOS 14 wipe the device and restore it from that iCloud backup you'll be able
to do that however if you have iOS 14 right now and you want to keep the exact
same information such as your messages your music and everything else we can
actually back it up to the computer and reach
that later on so make sure you have your phone ready to go your computer is
turned on and then go ahead and plug in your phone to the computer now once you
have your phone connected to the computer click on finder here it will
pop up this window and on the left hand side you'll see your device go ahead and
click on your device now if you're using iTunes you'll want to open iTunes and
you can see that I back this up earlier today but just make sure that you backup
all of your data on your iPhone to this Mac so select this option click backup
now and once you have that backup and it's completed backing everything up
you're good to go and we can move on to restoring the phone now in order to
restore your phone to a previous version you can't just click on restore phone
here you'll actually have to put it into recovery mode first now this varies on
how you do it based on which device you have it so for example if you have an
iPhone 6s or 6s plus what you'll need to do is power it off so we'll go ahead and
do that we'll wait till it turns off completely and then what we need to do
is take our cable our lightning cable and then what we'll need to do is press
and hold the home button keep holding the home button and then plug in our
lightning cable keep holding the puppy home button until it boots up and then
you'll see a connect to itunes logo so it'll take a moment there we go our
phone is now in the recovery mode and all we need to do is click restore now
if you want to do the same thing for an iPhone 7 the process is a little bit
different now here I have a jet-black iPhone 7 and in order to put the iPhone
7 into recovery mode you need to do this a little bit differently so again shut
down the phone then hold volume down so hold down the volume down button then
plug it in and keep holding volume down until it turns on so again it's going to
turn on wait for it to go into recovery mode and then you can release the volume
down button now if you have an iPhone 8 or newer the process to put it into
recovery mode is a little bit different so for example if you have an iPhone 8 8
+ 10 10 s 10 s max iPhone 10 R iPhone 11 iPhone 11 pro 11 Pro Mac's or iPhone se
second generation you're going to follow this process so if you want to put it
into recovery what you want to do is plug it in so
let's go ahead and plug it in here and then what we're going to do is basically
force reboot it or hard reboot it so press and volume up volume down then
press and hold the power button so let's go ahead and do that
and we'll press and hold the power button until the phone reboots into
recovery mode so we'll keep holding it'll reboot in just a moment we'll wait
for it here it takes a moment to turn back on and we'll keep holding that
power button until it comes into recovery mode so there we go you'll see
it's booting up we'll wait for it a little bit and in just a moment it
should go into recovery mode and this may take a moment you can see this is
taking a little bit now we're in recovery mode where we can restore the
phone now maybe you did this by accident you decided you don't want to do this
and you want to kick it out of recovery mode follow the same process so again
let's unplug it volume up volume down press and hold the power button and keep
holding it until it reboots again and then it will kick it out of recovery
mode so it'll boot back up in just a moment we'll wait for the Apple logo to
come on and then we'll let go of the power button now sometimes it won't come
out of recovery mode that simple let go of the power button hold it down again
and there we go so that time I actually had to let go of
it press it again and let it boot up I've had that happen on newer versions
it's a little a little bit hit or miss but just keep in mind you may have to do
it a couple times to kick it out of recovery mode so we'll wait for it to
boot up so I can show you and then I'll show you how to actually restore the
phone now you can see the phone has booted up it took a moment but now we're
back to the main home screen and we're good to go now let's go ahead and
restore the iPhone 10 are you can see here in settings that it's actually on
iOS 14 so let's restore it to iOS 13 so again let's do the same process here
we'll plug in the lightning cable volume up volume down press and hold the power
sleep/wake button and we'll wait for it to reboot into recovery mode now that
we're in recovery mode this will pop up on your screen where it says there is a
problem with the iPhone iPhone that requires it to be updated or restored
and it's a little strange the wording here but let's go ahead and click
restore and then we'll click restore an update and it's warning you that
everything will be erased and then we'll have to either restore from a backup or
start over again so let's go ahead and click restore an update now on this
screen you'll see it's going to show us the version it's going to restore to iOS
13 .5.1 in this case so let's go ahead and click Next then we'll click
agree and now it will download the appropriate update this will take a
while and you can see sort of the status here on the left it will take a while
once it's complete it will restore your phone so give it a while it will restore
and you'll be good to go and then we'll continue with restoring the backups so
you can have all of your information back now during this process you're
going to see a status bar on your phone and it will go across and the phone may
reboot a couple of times and on the Mac is just going to say iPhone recovery
mode your Mac is preparing to restore the software on this phone and that's
really all you get so just be patient wait for it to complete and once it's
completed we'll move on to the next step now the phone has been restored and
you're back to the initial setup screen now let's go ahead and set this up now
at this point this is where we can set up the phone as new we can restore the
backup from iCloud right here or we can restore on the computer now if you want
to restore from an iCloud backup just tap on that and you can use an older
backup but you'll see that the current backup that we did on this phone iOS 14
is not available it's grayed out but you can restore from any other backup that
you had earlier however if you want the exact same backup from today that we
restore it on the computer we'll need to go over to the computer and edit a file
so we'll go back and let's just go onto the computer and click restore from this
backup and you'll see it says iPhone 10 R and we'll click continue now you'll
see it says to restore this phone from a backup you must first set up the phone
as new and restore the software to the latest version so again we're getting
that same error but we can fix this now what we need to do is in the finder
we'll go to go up at the top and then go to folder and we want to go to this
directory now I'll link this in the description also there's a different
directory if you're on Windows but you can see it's library application
support mobile sync and then backup click on go and you'll see these are the
backups from today you'll see this one says today at 133 p.m. so we'll double
click and go into this folder scroll to the bottom and you'll see info dot P
list now depending on how you have this sorted it could be at the top or the
bottom so just find info dot P list and then open it with your favorite text
editor there's free ones on the app store I'm using BB edit so we'll go
ahead and open that up and you'll see this is just a trial for now but we'll
go ahead and open it up go into here and what we want to search for is the word
version so command F on a Mac and we're looking for the word version where it
says version the current version of the backup 14.0 and the serial number
so make sure you're on that one and then change this particular version to the
version that you're actually restored to right now so 13.5.1
and then go ahead and go to file and go to save once that's saved go ahead
and exit the program then you'll want to click on your phone again and then we'll
go to restore iPhone 10 R we'll click continue you'll see it says last backup
today 133 p.m. and then on the phone it will now allow us to restore and say
restore in progress and it will reboot and start restoring our files so let's
wait for this to complete now if you're curious about the status you'll see a
little circle here on the left that shows you how far along you are so just
continue to be patient while it restores now once the phone reboots you'll see it
says swipe to upgrade so I'll swipe up put in my passcode and you'll see the
Apple logo and you'll see a progress bar give it just a moment now you'll see
it's rebooted and it says hello so we'll swipe up it unlocks and it says
restore complete we'll hit continue and we may need to set up our Wi-Fi network
will agree to the terms and conditions we may need to enable location services
or disable them you can set up Siri now or later and swipe up to get started and
you'll see there are all of my apps in the background and they'll need to
restore but this is in the same configuration they were on iOS 14 so
we'll take just a moment you'll see it doesn't look anything
i OS 14 now we just have our old-style widgets and we'll wait for this to
restore now all my apps have installed the pages are laid out exactly how you
would expect them we're good to go there and all of my data is there as well so
for example I have messages all my messages are there my music is there my
photos are there so this is the wallpaper that I'm using in this video
that I downloaded before making the video to put as the wallpaper on all of
the phones and of course I'll link that in the description as I always do but
all of your data should be there so I installed pocket casts opened it back up
in my account was already signed in some accounts may require you to Rivera fie
so just keep that in mind but all of your apps and it's data should be there
your call history and everything else so if you have any other questions let me
know in the comments below and hopefully this helps you revert back to whatever
version you'd like to use as long as Apple is still signing that version and
allowing you to downgrade so that's how you do it if you have any other
questions or suggestions or other videos you'd like to see please let me know in
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this is Aaron I'll see you next time