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Has anyone removed public beta profile and got the dev beta?

The Doctor11

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Just curious if it would work. Has anyone on the public beta removed the beta profile and been able to download the developer beta 4? I would try it myself but I have 5 drafts in the feedback app I still need to fill out. :) Thanks in advance.
 
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I don't know... I wonder if I delete it will make the iPad to downgrade to IOS 8? I just wonder... :/
 
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Quite a few people have been doing it going by this kind of thing being discussed in a number of iOS 9 beta 4 related threads.
 
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My dev license expired last week. Trying to install public beta after installing a new profile but it's not showing. Any ideas!? Currently have beta 3 installed.

Help!

Will try connecting to iTunes when I get home.
 
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acedout said:
My dev license expired last week. Trying to install public beta after installing a new profile but it's not showing. Any ideas!? Currently have beta 3 installed.

Help!

Will try connecting to iTunes when I get home.
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Delete the new profile... reboot device... search for update... OPTIONAL: After install go to beta.apple.com/profile and reinstall the public beta profile.
 
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batting1000

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acedout said:
My dev license expired last week. Trying to install public beta after installing a new profile but it's not showing. Any ideas!? Currently have beta 3 installed.

Help!

Will try connecting to iTunes when I get home.
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The PB update won't show because PB1 and beta 3 have identical build numbers. Remove the profile from Settings > General > Profiles, reboot, and check for an update.
 
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ApexDE

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Shouldn't we expect problems removing the PB Profile and update to b4 as we don't have our UDIDs registered?
 
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ApexDE said:
Shouldn't we expect problems removing the PB Profile and update to b4 as we don't have our UDIDs registered?
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Doesn't seem that any have arisen so far, and nothing to really indicate that will change.
 
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ryankidd17

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Is this gonna have repercussions in the future? I mean, if someone did a factory reset, the profile would be deleted, and you'd be prompted to download beta 4. Cant blame that person.
I'm on the edge about going through this process. I may just fall over and do it
 
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ryankidd17 said:
Is this gonna have repercussions in the future? I mean, if someone did a factory reset, the profile would be deleted, and you'd be prompted to download beta 4. Cant blame that person.
I'm on the edge about going through this process. I may just fall over and do it
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I don't see what issues there would be...you'll just essentially be running the dev beta.
 
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ryankidd17 said:
Is this gonna have repercussions in the future? I mean, if someone did a factory reset, the profile would be deleted, and you'd be prompted to download beta 4. Cant blame that person.
I'm on the edge about going through this process. I may just fall over and do it
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I believe if you are doing a restore basically then it simply gets the latest publicly available version.
 
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ryankidd17 said:
Is this gonna have repercussions in the future? I mean, if someone did a factory reset, the profile would be deleted, and you'd be prompted to download beta 4. Cant blame that person.
I'm on the edge about going through this process. I may just fall over and do it
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Yeah I can't understand how this is working and I bet it's an error or loop hole Apple doesn't know about yet, I mean how can they issue a developers beta to the public who's only registered for the PB.
 
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MrGuder said:
Yeah I can't understand how this is working and I bet it's an error or loop hole Apple doesn't know about yet, I mean how can they issue a developers beta to the public who's only registered for the PB.
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They might know about it and not really care that much--basically it goes out to the servers to check and with the profile it goes to one set of servers for public beta but without a profile it goes to a more general set where it sees that you have a beta on it with the version that is the same as the last developer beta so it figures you should be offered a new developer beta as anyone running a developer beta would be.
 
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MrGuder

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They might know about it and not really care that much--basically it goes out to the servers to check and with the profile it goes to one set of servers for public beta but without a profile it goes to a more general set where it sees that you have a beta on it with the version that is the same as the last developer beta so it figures you should be offered a new developer beta as anyone running a developer beta would be.
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Interesting, I'll soon find out if this works, PB 1 is almost loaded back.
 
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MrGuder

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You guys are right, it worked, downloading iOS 9 Beta 4...so since I don't have the profile anymore how can I give Apple feedback on the beta 4?
 
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Worked on my phone and it's UDID has never been registered. I just had to reboot to get beta 4 to show up.
 
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