Q: Can I downgrade from ISO 7 to 6.1.3

To all of you faced with slow iOS 7 performance: reset settings seems to improve a lot.

The only thing you will need to redo is re-enter your old wifi passwords.

Instructions: settings - general - reset - reset all settings (first option)

Did this on several phones and iPads. All of your music, photos, and other stuff will remain intact.

I´ll updated my iPhone4, and now i can not get any aplication from the App Store, even the phone doesn´t shows the iTunes Store on screen. Everytime that i try to get an aplication on the app store, the systems launch this on screen "Terms and Conditions have changed" but the "I accept" button never appears. Please help me, What can i do?

Hi Superchaquichan,

Go to Settings>Safari, and under the Privacy & Security section, make sure that Block Cookies is set to either "From Third Parties" or to "Never".

Once it is set that way, try again. You may have to reset the device (nothing will be lost): Hold down the Home and Power buttons at the same time and continue to hold them down until the Silver Apple appears. Once the Home screen comes back up, try again.

Cheers,

GB

I have a huge problem with iphone 4.Extremely short battery life. I have tuned all possible programmes and turned off all features I could. No result. I go to sleep: half battery on the phone, wake up too late: no alarm clock: phone dead. Please what can I do?

Hi Sylverayda,

Start a new thread with your question. It is not related in any way to the title on this post, and is not likely to get answered.

Cheers,

GB

iOS 7 is really stuck on my iphone 4 also iPad 3, I sell already the iPad, because and want to sale the iPhone as well, because of the Apple no-downgrade allowed policy, I am a customer, I give money to APPLE, if I want to use iphone with IOS 6 I shall have the right! I will not buy any apple product in the future. Now looking for the Samsung and HTC ...

It matters not whether you win or lose, it's where you place the blame. 

Steve would never have allowed the creation of such crap as iOS7. Ladies ang gentelman, multithreading in the phone is not needed.

You need to have a very responsive GUI. (for most users all over the world... not hackers/programmers... but programmers/hackers want that we love their stupids.. I just want fast respondive GUI, how to turn off multittherading in IOS7? I also hate this ugly GUI of IOS7... is like stupid Android, not like tasty Apple)...

That's why I have chosen iPad3 and iPhone 4 (in times of iOS6). Now, iPhone5 without gorilla glass is like plastic toy for a child. It is associated with the lack of quality, mediocrity like Samsung or LG. If this be so, I will pick probably Sony, and for Apple I will say bye. Sorry, It is true.

The first warning sign was when Apple created their maps. And so most people use google maps.

Apple goes down IOS7 kills every older devices...so it is time to say Apple good bye... :/

Oh please, iOS 7 is exactly the sort of change Mr. Jobs would have done, look at OS X.

You are right it is time for you to say goodbye.

I found that some action are changed for left-handed people. It cannot be discovered on screenshots.

For example, creation of deleting button in iMessage in iOS6 appeared after sliding right which is natural for right-handed people. In iOS7 this button appears after sliding LEFT. The same problem is for several other actions in iOS.

Keyboard fonts were intrroduced by designer who didn't know anything about ergonomics.

Apple policy of one-way OS upgrade is absolutely strange. Even Microsoft provide possibility of installation of any version of Windows any time.

Next my phone will be definitely non-Apple.

P.S. Does Apple management read forums?

Apples and oranges, my friend (pun intended). Downgrading Windows is not like downgrading an iOS. You can downgrade Mac OS software just like you can Windows software. Windows Phone software, like the iPhone iOS, is a different animal.

Also, this is a user to user technical forum, so if Apple does do any research based on forum input, we wouldn't know.

Cheers,

GB

Downgrade of any OS is the installation of previous version with the lost of newer settings and features. So downgrade of iOS does not differ from downgrade of any desktop OS. You just load another kernel and shell. Any documents, books, music etc are loading from backup that is independent of OS version.

MS understood their failure of Win Vista and Win8 and permit downgrading to ANY previous Windows. And I can download any version from MSDN. As well as I can download any version of Linux including obsolete. And Apple has very short lifetime of their OSes and remove desupported versions from their sites. This stupid policy forces to buy new devices. This is good for money and managers bonuces but bad for users.

Another example, I could not buy in iTunes some music because it is available only for US and UK. In another countries live second-sort people as I understood.

So I cannot understand states like "iPhone is a different animal". It is different because of Apple policy, not because of technical reasons.

I understood this intention of Apple and decided not to use Apple devices in the future. Moreover, I see example of my dauhter. Her iPhone's battery dies after less than two years usage and she decided to buy device with Android as open standard device with much better hardware and software parameters than iPhone. Repair price forces to buy new device instead of dead one. As a result relation price/quality is the worst for Aplle products. i suspect that Apple intentionally produces devices with short lifetime and high cost of fixes to force users buying new devices.

By the way, I found interesting bug (feature?). ITunes on my iPhone did not start (crash right after start) after upgrade to iOS7 and did work only after "workaround" start player and then push "shop". It seems to me, that now Apple is not able to create programs for iOS.

Their Windows programs are terrible (safary is the worst browser, QuickTime does not understand standard audio-video formats, iTunes installs many unnecessary services etc). Moreover, iTunes cannot recognize iDevices and require Windows restarting...

I understood why Apple does not release Linux programs - there are no qualification to write stable and reliable compact programs.

I am not sure how googled entered into your restore am I missing something?

So I just make sure I have upgraded iTunes first.

Then I simply wipe out everything with a restore?

Have been a mac user since I started my design 'career' in 1999 - Have purchased many apple products or had many purchased for me through work environments etc and as is typically the case when apple does something bold ... remember when they removed the floppy disk and it was a huge joke to the pc crowd? ... I digress.. as is typical with these types of moves the apple fan 'boys' and 'girls' rush to their defense and its not their product that ***** its the users 'impression' or opinion that *****....and you just aren't smart enough to see the grand vision ... I think when Mr. Jobs was there this was an acceptable position because I at least felt confident that the man was a genius and that perhaps it was true and I just couldn't see the forest for the trees and nearly every time his 'vision' or the 'it' that he had proved brilliant ....

I hate I mean HATE iOS 7 - this is officially the first apple product that I've ever owned that I hate. One more time in case the first 3 weren't enough. Hate. I am a disgruntled apple owner I feel like I bought an iPad for what the iPad was and then after I bought it they changed what it is... and the icing on the cake is .... it would seem knowing some people might not like it for a short time they provided a way out and you could revert. I was under the impression I could revert as I had 'heard' that you could.

You're right its my fault because I didn't spend an hour watching youtube videos to see what the interface was like or reading 12 pages of 4pt type that said you will live with this OS forever - you don't really own the device you are only renting it.... oh well I see I can get a couple hundred bucks for this brick on ebay so maybe I'll do that and pick up a windows device ... I already switched to a windows phone as I thought its interface slick and made performing tasks - as for me phones are more task driven -  faster than an iphone (which proved true) and I'm actually happy I made that switch … Its hard to believe but microsoft actually does this whole non-skeumorphism better… remember the 'switch' campaign? … I didn't have to I was already there

Here's to hoping this garbage doesn't find a way to the desktop products.