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Uninstall iOS 6 and return to iOS 5?

After installing iOS 6 on my 4s my battery life has been cut in 1/2. How can I reinstall iOS 5?

iPhone 4S, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 20, 2012 8:51 PM

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Sep 20, 2012 9:02 PM in response to Seracus

I just posted a similar Question before. I asked if its worth the hasssle or risk to do it. I came accross a couple of videos on youtube showing how to do it using itunes. but what if you updated your phone over wi fi?


So im not sure its so simple if you didnt do it with itunes. Hope to hear some feeback. on this thread

Sep 20, 2012 10:01 PM in response to Seracus

I had a backup on my mac but did the update on WiFi. Now I cannot connect my phone to my mac because it requires a newer version of itunes. The newer version of itunes is not compatible with my mac (10.5.8) :-(


Come on Apple. I bought your stuff because it just worked. Now things don't work, and I cannot even connect my ecosystem together. This *****.

Sep 21, 2012 2:19 AM in response to Seracus

I came here to ask the same thing. I do NOT like the new Maps ap and much prefered Google Maps. I miss Street view and the detail I used to have. Now i just get blurry images for many places. and having an old 3G phone means I dont even get the voice navigation. Wish I had known all this before accepting the update.

Is there an easy way of going back to IOS 5? Or is it too difficult. Am not a happy bunny.

Alternatively, any word of Google doing a download version of their ap so it can be reinstalled? If there is one I cant find it.

Sep 21, 2012 2:22 AM in response to lindzog

I totally agree! I have just managed to downgrade to 5.1.1 again through this link (might get pulled):


http://techglobex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/downgrade-from-ios-6-beta-firmware-to.h tml


What I did was :


1. Make sure I was on itunes 10..6.3.25


2. Dowloaded 5.1.1 from the link


3. Connected my phone to itunes


4. Held the shift key down and then pressed 'update'


5. Found the 5.1.1 download and clicked open.


6. Then let it do its work.


7. I then had to restore my phone from the back up I made before I upgraded to 6. It offered icloud or computer and I chose computer.


8. just let it run - it then asked me for a new passcode and then went on to download all my apps/music/photos etc.


I am now back with google maps working as well as youtube. Everything is as it was 🙂


Hope this helps but don't blame me if you have problems - maybe I have been lucky.

Sep 24, 2012 8:26 PM in response to Tim12416

I have also managed to revert back to iOS 5 after updating.


Seems it's much easier to do on a Mac since completely removing iTunes 10.7 is easier to do on Mac than PC.


If you're using PC you need to resolve issues with the host files which iTunes also updates. Google can teach you this.


Good luck on recovering the actual "world's most advanced operating system".

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