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Stop iPhone from downloading iOS6 OTA

Hi all,

I'm travelling right now so I heavily rely on google maps on my iphone, os 5.1.1. Because of all the terrible things I've read about Apple maps, I do not want to update. Because I'm generally in places with wifi that is spotty, I don't want my phone to start automatically downloading ios6 while I'm connected to wifi because it slows my phone way down, not to mention eats up my wifi usage that I have to pay for in hostels. I don't want to pay for 2.3gb of usage that I don't want or need right now.

Is there any way to stop my iphone from automatically downloading ios6 while connected to wifi?? My phone is not jailbroken, but because of Apple's complete inability/unwillingness to let users set their own prefereces for things like this, I may have to jailbreak it.

Any help you could give would be most appreciated!

iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Sep 29, 2012 3:16 PM

46 replies

Oct 19, 2013 5:17 AM in response to Cravit8

Thanks for posting this thread. I had this happen to me and didn't realize what was occupying my space.

Cravit8 wrote:

If you want the iOS7 update download to get deleted off your device you can:

Backup

Restore

Sync and load enough apps to leave only 1GB left

The iOS7 update will not have room to download

I had to also turn off wi-fi after doing the restore, because it started downloading while I was syncing. But, once I got the space below 2 GBA by adding content from my library, it no longer will download, and I can have wi-fi syncing as always.

Thanks for this tip.

Stop iPhone from downloading iOS6 OTA

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