Undo iOS 7.0.2

An iOS downgrade is not supported by Apple.

Unfortunately once you updated to iOS 7, you cannot revert back to a previous version.

They don't care if it doesn't work or works worse than the other. You are stuck with it. I'm considering an Android UPGRADE!!!!!

I agree. I really hope there is a way to undo the update. There are so many problems with new iso 7.0.2, too. One of them is that I cannot look up the dic. by holding the words. What is going on? I do not like this at all.

Absolutely agree- horrible update- wish to God I could go back but know I can't and if you want to be supported under AppleCare you have be running the latest iOS! Scrolling in safari with fingers is a minefield now- control center keeps popping up from the bottom- please give us a way of disabling this "feature"- I don't even use the control center. Gosh Apple!!! And something is wrong with the keyboard- I'm having error after error typing in- this comment has been a pain to type in. Where are you Jonny Ives ????

I got good news from another thread. I hear Apple is doing another update next week to fix some of the issues like face time and iMessage and maybe some of the other problems they've caused. Cross your fingers.

I've been having multiple crash/reboots per day since updating to iOS 7 on my iPad 3. First update that's ever been this unstable.

I miss Jobs. Quality control meant something then.

Jordan Klein

So you weren't around for the release of OS X and iPhone OS 2.0 were you? But Mr. Jobs was.

Which OS X release? I skipped Lion and hung onto Snow Leopard until Mountain Lion came out. I've used every iPhone since the first version. I don't remember any iOS release causing my iPhone to reboot multiple times a day. Maybe once in a blue moon I had to manually reboot it to clear out the cruft and dust bunnies. It's a computer so I expect that. But kernel panics are something we should rarely see; not multiple times a day, every day. That's just bad quality control.

Jordan Klein

I was referring to OS X 10.0.0. But Lion was also one with a lot of complaints.

iOS 2.0 raised a lot of outcry, but iOS 4.0 even more. I'm glad yours didn't have any problems but lots of people reported issues including rebooting. I started with the second iPhone and during one of the updates I ran into reboot and WiFi issue. It was cleared up with an update. In 3.0 I had the Bluetooth echo issue with my car. Reported it and waited for an update.

Were all those bad quality control? Mr. Jobs was still around. He was also around for the MobileMe rollout.

I'm not getting reboots throughout the day. In fact I haven't even had one.

Ah yes, I remember 10.0.0. I avoided it like the plague after reading the first reviews. I wasn't a Mac user at the time, but was paying close attention since I'm a UNIX/Linux admin and OS X is UNIX. I was thrilled when I first learned that. Apple putting their polish on a very rock solid core OS. Of course, they blew it the first time out. But, 10.1 came out and erased a lot of the complaints. That's when I jumped over to the Mac world. I LOVED it at first. Every release was faster than the last on the same hardware. I laughed at Windows users who had to upgrade their hardware ever time there was a new release. Mac users got a hardware upgrade just by upgrading the OS, it seemed. That ended when Lion came out. There were some rocky releases between 10.1 and Lion but nothing really stands out to me. Lion was the Vista of OS X. Mountain Lion is the Windows 7 of OS X. :-)

Wasn't the biggest complaint about iOS 2.0 that they didn't include copy/paste? Or, was that later? I also remember people clamoring for a developer API instead of Apple's idea of having all apps be HTML5 pages. I'm glad they caved as soon as they did.

I do remember reading about those issues too, now that you mention it. I did consider myself lucky that I didn't experience a lot of what I read here. However, I still consider iOS 7 unfit for consumption on the iPad 3. I can't speak for the iPad 4. Maybe it runs like a champ there. It does run well on my iPhone 5. No reboots at all. I think they focused more on iPhones than iPad from what I can see.

Jordan

the_james_marq wrote:

I agree. I really hope there is a way to undo the update. There are so many problems with new iso 7.0.2, too. One of them is that I cannot look up the dic. by holding the words. What is going on? I do not like this at all.

Actually the dictionary works fine but you have to downoad one in iOS 7.0.2. Hold your finger on a word, select define, then manage and dictionary options appear. Choose one and voila, you'll have the ability to define words.

You can not undo the update, but maybe if you give it some time you'll find there are some terrific things about this update. And as is often the case, where there are issues, Apple will address them with updates.

Running decent on my iPad 3 but I have sent a number of bug and enhancement requests in. You can do the same.

Perhaps you should have treated iOS 7 like 10.0.0? Called it Jony Ives iOS 1.0

Yep, I probably should've waited. But, patience was never my strongest suit. I wasn't sure if I'd like iOS 7 or not based on how much the UI has changed. I liked the old UI and didn't think it needed a redo. But, its grown on me and I do like it so far. I would like to see some updates focused on stability and performance on the iPad.

Also, when I updated, I decided that I could sacrifice my iPad if it was completely hosed by it. It's not a device that I depend upon, so its loss would be annoying at worst. My iPhone, on the other hand, is much more crucial to my life and I waited until I started reading reports that it was quite stable on the iPhone. I upgraded mine (iPhone 5) and it's worked like a champ.

I used to beta test software years ago for largely the same reasons I jumped on the iPad update early. I like getting my hands on shiny new toys early and playing with them. :-) That has cost me in the past too. Such is life for the impatient.

Jordan Klein

I had a very similar discussion with a friend of mine when I began having problems with my iPhone 4s when updating to iOS 7. After three days of consulting with Apple, they finally got it working correctly, but this morning, I tried updating my iPad 3 to version 7.0.2, and boom another problem occured that sent my iPad into recovery mode and is now unable to be restored.

It's sad that the quality and care that was once standard with Apple, seems all but behind us.... 😟