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A problem with restoring iPhone to iOS 13 from iOS 14 public beta

So I downloaded the iOS 14 public beta today because every year in July, I always like to try the public betas of the new iOS updates. Not knowing that iOS 14 public beta takes up 12gbs of storage (don't know if that's a bug or not) and I am using an 32gb iPhone 7 that I used up 19gbs before updating but now 28gb because of updating, I now want to restore to iOS 13. So I did but after I restore by using my MacBook, it took me right back to iOS 14. Is there any way that I can go back?

iPhone 7, iOS 14

Posted on Jul 9, 2020 10:54 PM

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Posted on Jul 9, 2020 11:07 PM

Did you follow Apple's instructions and create a backup before you went to iOS 14?

https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/faq

Are you following directions such as this to revert?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203282

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A problem with restoring iPhone to iOS 13 from iOS 14 public beta

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