Q: how do i uninstall IOS7

Greetings, Support Community.

I've been away for awhile, happily using my neighbor kid's iPhone 3GS. The battery is not as strong as it used to be, but, hey, at least I can read the screen. Anyhow, just yesterday my 3GS hit me with a notification. The phone wants to update to iOS6.1.6.

Update?! Huh? What kind of inferno waits around the corner, if I press that button?

Seriously, though, anyone know what this update entails? Also, if I press the install now button, will I be able to read my screen afterwards?

Thanks for any information.

The update fixes a security vulnurability in SSL certificate management. You need it. It's only 13 MB, takes about 5 minutes to install if you do it on your phone connected to WiFi.

meganuts wrote:

 

 

Update?! Huh? What kind of inferno waits around the corner, if I press that button?

 

Nothing like the inferno you will experience if a hacker gets your indentity data by exploiting the security flaw this update fixes. Don't update then but I strongly recommend you not logon to any public WiFi network like Starbucks, or McDonalds, or your local city network.

Thanks, Lawrence. Thanks, Ikrupp.

I appreciate the response. I will go ahead and allow the iPhone to update based upon your suggestions. I felt the need to check in with others more knowledgable than myself. Last time I updated, I couldn't read the screen when the update was complete. It sounds like this time it's mostly security issues. Thanks again.

Meganuts

meganuts wrote:

 

Thanks, Lawrence. Thanks, Ikrupp.

 

I appreciate the response. I will go ahead and allow the iPhone to update based upon your suggestions. I felt the need to check in with others more knowledgable than myself. Last time I updated, I couldn't read the screen when the update was complete. It sounds like this time it's mostly security issues. Thanks again.

 

Meganuts

Do youself a favor. Restart/reboot your iPhone before updating. Restarting clears al lot of garbage that may have accumulated in the caches and such. I always restart my computer, my iPad, etc. before updating.

Your update is to ios 6 and not ios 7 and it does not contain anything that was described above. It is perfectly good update nevertheless and unless your phone 3GS had problems before update, you will not have problems after. Just make sure you have active sim to activate it if it goes in recovery and make a backup before any update.

The update to iOS 6 patches the same SSL vulnurability as the iOS 7 update.

Thank you Lawrence, found it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6146

Thanks, guys. I updated successfully and can still read my screen.

Yeah, following issues since I upgraded my 4S (on Sunday)

1. Yup. Everything is unreadable. Had to swap my previously working wallpaper.

2. Connection drops all the time now.

3. Stanza no longer works. All books and annotations lost.

4. Calendar is crap. Had to go find a new one.

5. Safari crashes and is unusable and confusing, had to find a new browser (maybe opera)

6. Mail is crap. Much less usable than previous

7. Lowercase letters no longer shown

8. Messages don't send for no apparent reason.

9. Lock screen is unreadable.

10. Airplane on or off? Who knows?

11. Notepad looks boring now.

12. Icons impossible to see.

13. Tons of accessibility 'settings'...Apple is 'just supposed to work'. Gonna buy an Android soon.

14. Keyboard no longer switches back

And this is after only 2 days of testing.

Submit your feedbck to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Meg, has Apple conceded yet to giving users (who have paid for a certain product) the option to revert back to a previous OS?   Such as back to an OS that worked relatively flawlessly and away from the current OS which is still  quite riddled with bugs, and poorly received?

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Roamies wrote:

 

Meg, has Apple conceded yet to giving users (who have paid for a certain product) the option to revert back to a previous OS?  

Downgrading is not supported. It never has been.

Best of luck.

Meg,

Isn't one of the bigger points about this upgrade the fact that it's supposed to make iOS7x run quicker and smoother on older devices?