anyone else tired of forced Ios updates?

How often are you or anyone else here “harassed” by the software upgrades/updates message/dot?

I only get harrased with the iOS update downloading to my iDevices every few weeks, or so.

Here’s a little tip they may help with reducing the amount of times a iOS upgrade/update gets pushed to your iDevices from Apple’s software update servers.

Some, or maybe, many iDevice users are not aware of how they can minimise the frequency with which they are receiving these iOS upgrade/update downloads from Apple’s software download servers.

If I keep my iDevices fully charged up during the day, so I don’t have to charge them up while I am sleeping, I won't get the iOS upgrades/updates downloaded to my iDevices, as Apple’s servers, usually, push the updates to your iDevices ONLY if you are charging your iDevices overnight where Apple pushes these iOS upgrades/updates to your iDevices AFTER 2:00 AM.

OR IF you have no choice, but to charge your iDevices overnight while you are sleeping, turn OFF Wifi and not only will the iOS upgrade/update NOT get pushed to your device, it will charge quicker with Wifi and online access has been ceased for the evening.

You do not have to go to the extreme condition YOU seem to be using and advocating!

At any rate, I usually just delete it with no real contempt or malice about it.

I could understand if someone was getting harassed with upgrading/updating iOS every single day or every other day or, maybe, even once a week!

But if once every two to three weeks the upgrade/update appears, I really don't see this as really being harassed, but maybe more of a minor annoyance, at best.

The terms “harassed” and “forced”, in this context, seem like an extreme reaction.

You dont have to update your iOS, BUT the reasons why it is important to update , is you get security updates with the software updates especially if you do banking, shopping and paying bills. I myself have my main OS on Mavericks because of GUI and cognitive reasons stayed on iOS8 on iPad because of lag in art-paint programs , but keep up to date on iPhone, where iPhone is used for my finance/social/shopping, where updates are necessary, and installed latest MacOS on separate drive/partition to synch with the iPhone. I had to ditch iWork apps as my primary office , because of using different versions across different devices, opening files work from old to new, but not the other way round. So i use a third party office application that saves docs in format to allow flexibility, and have to keep their formatting simple. The Mac obviously would be primary device to print-edit-neat things out, whereas the iPad used for note taking and typing the raw material. But if you rely on iWork stuff, you would have to update all devices if you update one device, i agree that is annoying if you have reasons.

Nothing changed with the release of iOS 9 from recent prior updates. While the update may download you are not forced to install it unless you have to restore your iPhone. You missed the point about security updates, these were not to eliminate bugs they were to keep your iPhone secure. If security is far less important to you then you should move on to the android world, you won't see near as many updates (if any) and won't be nagged about them. You also will get a shot at 99% of the mobile spyware/malware.

deggie wrote:

Nothing changed with the release of iOS 9 from recent prior updates. While the update may download you are not forced to install it unless you have to restore your iPhone. You missed the point about security updates, these were not to eliminate bugs they were to keep your iPhone secure. If security is far less important to you then you should move on to the android world, you won't see near as many updates (if any) and won't be nagged about them. You also will get a shot at 99% of the mobile spyware/malware.

Why not security updates separated from additional software that many users may not bother with. After all remember the mac vs pc commercial where the Pc guy was round with extra stuff - that was the lure of macs - not loaded with software you could not get rid of. Times do change.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

It's too bad that you're unhappy with your purchase. But I'm not sure why you're addressing this to me. iOS devices hold their resale value very well. Sell it and buy something that suits you better.

^^ totally true. no reason to hang onto something you don't love. Sell it and get something you do!

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I tried to downgrade back to ios 9.3

Unfortunately, you can't do that with iOS and that fact is well known.

It has been less then a year and they are already outdated by this latest update.

Every software and hardware developer issues updates - that does not mean that the device is outdated. Rather, it is quite often simply one or more security updates necessary to keep your device and data safe because of the every changing security threats by hackers.

Yes! Super tired! My phone keeps trying to prompt me to update, especially when I am tapping at my phone doing something else; I fear I will accidentally hit yes, and it'll just do it. I hate that the phone downloads the new update without asking me, making it even more likely it will install it. The iOS updates always make the phone slower and there is nothing new I find useful. I went from iPhone 4 to iPhone 7, but that's just because apps became so resource consuming that they wouldn't run anymore even though they don't need to be to perform the same functions. I essentially use my iPhone 7 today to do the same things I did with my iPhone 4 in 2010. It's planned obsolescence, made worse by being forced on you. And then there are the multitude of unnecessary requirements to update to access functions you already had before; I had to update my iOS to restore my iPhone, which I do because it unnecessarily accumulates clutter files somewhere that occupy space and make it run more slowly, although I don't know how much I'm improving the phone by installing the new iOS. I wish they just came up with a light iOS and light versions of the most common apps so that you can still use the basic functionality but not all the extra stuff that consumes computing power and you don't use anyways.

Well I saw a chap respond about cameras and things in the relationship with iDevices.

If you cant afford regularly buying new iPads like once every 3 years in order to keep up with performance and productivity ., and only have the option to use an iPad until it dies or being eco-freindly reducing the landfill of electronic garbage to have consideration for the planet over capitalism causing planned obselesence...

Use iPhone for your banking/social media and what not (for security reasons, if you don't want to update iPad in fear of loosing performance)... and use iPad for productivity apps only, such as painting/astropad/logic remote/ doing documents etc... an extension of your Mac. Focus on updating the iPhone, thats if you get them via contract deals , instead of buying them with cash/card. Its easy to keep up to date with hardware and software that way...

These little devices can now do what you could only do on a desktop 20 years ago, in dealing with financial tasks.

Old iPhones you can donate to people who just need a phone for text/calling and nothing really smart.... or reuse them as ipods

MichelPM wrote:

Again, planned obsolescence IS a myth and IS an oxymoron to many extents.

By the definition people use this term for, ANY new products that are put out on the market on a yearly schedule, EVEN CARS and TRUCKS, by these peoples’ definition, would be called planned obsolescence!

I am old enough to remember the original meaning of Planned Obsolescence, and it applied specifically to cars and trucks. The meaning has morphed, but originally it was a strategy to release a new model car every year that was radically different in looks from the previous year, so if you didn't update every couple of years everyone would know that you were driving an "old" car. The idea being that peer pressure would force you to upgrade frequently. Some large companies even required their employees to have a car less than 3 years old if they wanted to park it in the company parking lot.

You are not addressing anyone of import from Apple here.

We are all just users here, just like you!

Based on your comments, you are not going to like the up and coming iDevice lineups for 2018.

More new improved iPads, iPhones, and Macs and accessories come every single year from Apple.

Your new $1000 iPhone X WILL have a new and improved version for 2018. Maybe NO or more minimized notch for all of the Face ID stuff on the new, improved flagship iPhone!

This is what product and technology companies do!

They produce new and improved products year after year after year!

It will never stop or end.

If you can’t deal with this idea, then you shouldn't be purchasing any technology and, especially, expensive smart phones costing $1000+! Jeesh!

Learn to be grateful to have been able to purchase what you have!

No one pushes me to purchase anything I do not need or want right away and I do not need the latest greatest technologies.

I have NO iPhone. I purchased an iPhone SE for my wife because the full paying price was spectacularly cheap at the holidays! This is the first iPhone my wife and I have ever owned!

We both have 6-7 year old iPads we still use. I have a 2-1/2 iPad Pro and iPod Touch!

My wife and I STILL use 8-9 year old iMacs!

Yet, Apple, every year, comes out with new and improved products to sell to both old and new customers.

This is never going to stop for ANY product producing companies and industries.

Be happy with what you have for an Apple product and be happy you were in a financial position to be able to purchase the Apple products you have.

Enjoy that iPhone X you purchased! It will STILL be a remarkable device!

I don’t understand why iPhone users, ESPECIALLY, feel the need to upgrade their expensive iPhones every 2-3 years!

When I get ready to get my first iPhone, it is going to be a 2-3 year old, less expensive iPhone model, too!

Either another SE OR an iPhone 6/6S OR if the price is right, maybe an iPhone 7.

I am waiting it out until older iPhones get to a price point that I feel is reasonable for my wallet!

After all, it just a cell phone!

Only one of my iDevices is still on iOS 10.3.3.

I dismiss the iOS 11 upgrades/updates only like every 10-15 days, or so.

Have not run into any operational issues caused by dismissing an upgrade or update.

Every time I clear my iPad of an upgrade/update, I follow it up with a hard reset of my iPad to gain back the space that the upgrade/update took.

There is NO “hidden” code that slows down any device or Mac, for that matter, if you choose not to accept any type of OS upgrade/update.

I have an example: a while back I had to make a video, in a rush, of a situation potentially leading to a physical altercation.

I couldn't because my free space had been taken by the update and I can't, in a moment like that, tell everyone to wait while I go to settings, find the update and delete it. Imagine if things had gone really bad and there would be no document of this event because Apple decided that me having their last update was more important than my ability to use my phone in a rush?

This is my example, I'm sure similar situations happened to others.

Apple is not the only offender, some people have had significant problems with Windows 10 deciding to update and reboot by itself at the wrong time. However, for Microsoft the community is probably more lenient since we're still euphoric for the past 6-7 years where it doesn't crash randomly anymore.

But my point is that manufacturer deciding to control your device is something unacceptable and there starts to be a clear division about products which are respecting their users and those which do not.

I don't have that problem at all on the Mac, I can update when I want and it will never shut down in the middle of something important, take my space, etc without me initiating the process.

But I know now that I can't trust an iphone in a matter of emergency.

All I did was go to google and ask "how do I get apple to stop nagging me with updates.". then I followed directions.I actully couldn't believe I managed it ! So if i could, anyone can do it!

Philcavana wrote:

hehe 😁

And yes you have to update the apparatus, or else it will keep nagging you everyday, and downloading the update without your consent.

No, you don't have to update. I have 2 iOS 9 capable devices, but have not upgraded from iOS 8. I have seen the nag screen possibly a dozen times between the 2 devices. Not exactly a forced update.