How to downgrade ios 26 to ios 18.5?
Please help?
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Original Title: ios 26 to ios 18.5
cee262 wrote:
I can’t find my iOS 18.5 but I ** in iOS 26.0 how do I go back to iOS 18.5
This has been repeatedly answered, by multiple contributors, throughout the six pages of this discussion thread...
If you are currently enrolled in a beta programme and wish to return to using the current production version, this support page provides the necessary information to remove the beta from your iPhone:
How to uninstall iOS beta software - Apple Support
Be aware that restoring an earlier version of iOS will completely reset and erase your iPhone. Assuming that you have a pre-existing iCloud or iTunes backup of your iPhone that has not been updated since installing the iOS 26 beta, your locally stored data and files can be restored after returning your iPhone to iOS 18.5; if you don't have a pre-existing backup, all locally stored data will be irretrievably lost:
Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support
An iCloud or iTunes backup can only be restored to a device running the same or later version of iOS than created (or last updated) the backup. As such a backup created or updated by iOS 26 cannot be restored to a device running iOS 18.5.
gurpreet_gurii wrote:
Plea my backups 18.5?
Restoring a backup will not downgrade iOS. Backups do not contain iOS – only your data. So if you restored one of those backups, you would just be wiping the current data on your phone, in favor of possibly-older data, while keeping iOS 26.
There are no beta's available for the iPhone 6s. iOS 15 is the end of the line for that mode.
shambhu165 wrote:
How to iOS 26 Romeve
You can't.
Sorry what you want is impossible, downgrading is not supported.
No
selvie35 wrote:
Return in ios 18
No.
Your wish cannot be granted.
Sorry, but you can’t go back.
You can't. How many times do we need to say it?
Apple is no longer signing iOS 18, so it is unfortunately not possible to downgrade.
Koithahn01 wrote:
no computer to downgrade is there another way to do the change on the iPhone 16 Pro Max to Change to iOS 18.5 without having to have a computer. All I have is my iPhone.
Nope, sorry. Ask a friend or neighbor if you can borrow theirs, if not, visit your nearest Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider to borrow theirs.
Right now, you need to read the more than 17 answers that have already been posted in this thread. We don't need to post the same answer again.
But, before you think about reverting, hopefully you made an Archive Backup of your phone running iOS 18 on your Mac......before.....you installed the beta software.
You will need that Archive Backup to restore the phone using iOS 18 if you want to avoid losing all of the data on your phone and starting all over.
Lefa128
If you backed your phone up to iTunes prior to the update to the beta you can format and restore that backup.
( Instructions do state prior to installing beta to make sure you back up to iTunes.) ❤️
Denisgocea wrote:
I downloaded iOS 26 and I want iOS 18.5 but I don't have a laptop
Returning an iPhone to the production version of iOS from a beta requires use of a computer - either a Mac or Windows PC. There are no alternatives.
The process is described repeatedly, by multiple contributors, throughout this thread.
Apple told you to use a "spare" phone for the iOS 26 beta. It appears that you did not do this.
Did you make a special "Archive Backup" on your Mac.....before....you installed iOS 26?
If not, you are going to lose all of the data on your phone if you move back to iOS 18.
How can I downgrade from iOS 26 to iOS 18.5?
