iPhone 14 cant update, now getting popup every time I turn it on

I cannot update my iPhone 14 at all, back in July I installed the first beta for iOS 26, and I was never able to find any updates. It's been a while since then, still cant find any updates. I now get this popup telling me to update it, when ive restarted it, changed wifi, disabled data, etc to try and get it to load the updates. I also thought "okay I might as well restore it", and when I went on my Mac to restore it, it says "the requested resource not found". And when I try to put the phone into recovery mode, it just boot loops.

iPhone 14, iOS 26

Posted on Nov 30, 2025 1:34 PM

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Dec 1, 2025 3:14 AM in response to feliks210

feliks210 wrote:

I cannot uninstall it, Litearlly doesn't work when I try to install or remove anything. Cant even factory reset it.

The process of removing beta involves a computer driven recovery mode wipe, and unless the phone is damaged there is no way you cannot do it.

However as you will lose all data not sync'd to the phone (backups from beta are useless) you might just want to make sure beta is turned off as an update option, and just wait for 26.2 in a week or three.

iPhone 14 cant update, now getting popup every time I turn it on

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