iOS 14.2 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[krishmk]

Happily moving along on 14.1 after rolling back from the beta. Not missing the pop ups or anything else that 14.2 had to offer.

When you got off the beta, did you lose any data (messages or call logs) from the beta to 14.1???

 

[mlemonds]

Yes. Hold down option and click update. Then select the 14.1 ipsw. Shouldn’t lose any data.

 

[econrads024]

There is no iPhone 12 ipsw though? so how did you do it?

 

[mlemonds]

There is no iPhone 12 ipsw though? so how did you do it?

What I did was plug in the phone and tell it to restore. Once it began downloading the ipsw, I unplugged the phone and waited for the download to finish. After it finished I waited a few mins and plugged the phone back in. Then did the option update.

 

[brianld]

Yes. Hold down option and click update. Then select the 14.1 ipsw. Shouldn’t lose any data.

To be clear, you're stating you downgraded from 14.2 to 14.1, and restored from a 14.2 iCloud backup on a 14.1 device?

 

[Slevin]

I only see the 14.1 for the iPhone 11. No restore images for the iPhone 12 for 14.1

 

[brianld]

I only see the 14.1 for the iPhone 11. No restore images for the iPhone 12 for 14.1

ipsw.me is your friend

 

[FireRx]

okay it a foul up on the beta. I'm not gonna worry about it then . they'll fix it on next update

 

[MCKLMT]

To be clear, you're stating you downgraded from 14.2 to 14.1, and restored from a 14.2 iCloud backup on a 14.1 device?

Could someone confirm please?

 

[teeshot44]

Could someone confirm please?

You CANNOT restore a 14.2 backup to a 14.1 device.

 

[mlemonds]

To be clear, you're stating you downgraded from 14.2 to 14.1, and restored from a 14.2 iCloud backup on a 14.1 device?

When you do an “update” from 14.2 to 14.1 it does not remove data from the phone. You don’t have to restore from a backup.

 

[gtmead09]

Lol I understand what I signed up for, but shaping up to be a long weekend lol.

 

[xgman]

They could issue a quick .01 fix if they wanted to... just sayin.

 

[xgman]

True, so might just get public release the week after next.

I am going with 14.2 going with a GM, as 14.1 had one, which was most likely due to it going on the iPhone 12 & 12 Pro. Assuming that the 12 Pro Max & Mini are going to come with 14.2 on them, then we would see a GM come out for other devices on that basis.

I don't think that is the case. To upgrade properly, you'll need to first update the 12 X's to 14.2 final, then wipe and restore from your 11XS backup. I've made this same mistake last time. The new released phones aren't as up to date due to when they are setup and packed. probably well before 14.2 is ready. I've seen that senario play out on almoast every Apple device upgrade incl macs.

 

[xgman]

If you don’t want annoyances with a TEST code, guess what? Don’t use a test code. Nobody needs to be put on fire - and if so, that would be you by agreeing to use a test code that is for testing, and being that upset about it.

I'm more upset by your post.

 

[rgarita]

14.2 is out!!!

 

[brianld]

14.2 is out!!!

Yep, beat me to it. I believe you'll need beta profile installed in order to see it show up - can someone confirm?

 

[gwang73]

Yep, beat me to it. I believe you'll need beta profile installed in order to see it show up - can someone confirm?

Yes, you need the beta profile installed as this is the GM release, not public.

 

[golfguy2015]

Still have the annoying pop up.

 

[atlchamp]

Still have the annoying pop up.

What?? What pop up?

 

[golfguy2015]

What?? What pop up?

The "A new Ios update is now available. Please update from the Ios 14 beta." popup. It comes up everytime I unlock my phone, but going to the settings app shows it up to date.

 

[atlchamp]

The "A new Ios update is now available. Please update from the Ios 14 beta." popup. It comes up everytime I unlock my phone, but going to the settings app shows it up to date.

You already installed the GM?

 

[paulg1981]

In the Dev Portal it is labelled as a "Release Candidate", can't remember that happening before but I may be wrong.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

GM is out... is @Banglazed ok? There’s no thread yet.

 

[HQuest]

Apple has created a new developer beta profile, which possibly fixes something going on on the background that was causing the 14.2 internal Release Candidate to be showing up as new code available prior to be in public developers. Advised to remove the current Beta profile prior to install the new one. Afterwards, it is a 4Gb+ full image file, not an incremental one (at least for my device model).