You can get ipsw file without going to recovery mode. Try google.These are the steps I do:
- Connect my 13 Pro Max to my Mac computer via Lightning cable.
- Do an encrypted backup via Finder.
- Restart phone in Recover Mode while leaving it connected to the computer.
- Select Restore. Finder downloads the latest version of iOS to the computer
- When download is completed, Finder erases the entire contents of the phone and iOS is installed to the phone.
- After finished, phone restarts. Select restore from backup, select backup from computer.
- Backup restored, apps are re-download. Takes 30 or so mins for the backup to compete.
If you can't update or restore your iPhone or iPod touch - Apple Support
You can put your iOS device in recovery mode, then restore it using your computer.support.apple.com
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The only way it seems to work for me is if double tap on a word and quickly place my finger in the area being highlighted, then I am able to drag the right side handle without it going screwy.
Maybe it is something related to the 120 Hz ProMotion.
I know about that, getting the ipsw. Both ways end up doing the exact same thing.
These are the steps I do:
- Connect my 13 Pro Max to my Mac computer via Lightning cable.
- Do an encrypted backup via Finder.
- Restart phone in Recover Mode while leaving it connected to the computer.
- Select Restore. Finder downloads the latest version of iOS to the computer
- When download is completed, Finder erases the entire contents of the phone and iOS is installed to the phone.
- After finished, phone restarts. Select restore from backup, select backup from computer.
- Backup restored, apps are re-download. Takes 30 or so mins for the backup to compete.
If you can't update or restore your iPhone or iPod touch - Apple Support
You can put your iOS device in recovery mode, then restore it using your computer.
I’m pretty sure that’s what a restore does, wipes the phone, install the IPSW of choice or just finder finds it, then your phones brand new, hello screen, no Wi-Fi, clicky keyboard, then asks if you want to install a back up…
I think, DFU mode is slightly redundant these days as we have these other options in finder/iTunes. I’ve only used DFU mode when my phone bricked once and that because it put itself into it.
But that’s just my understanding of it all.
It seems that what I wrote above is inconsistent in how often I am able to get it to work. Since only seems to affect maybe those phones with ProMotion, maybe this has to do with ProMotion.
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I don't get most of these problems either. OTA every time on my iPhone 11. I have to do the ipsw on my 16GB iPhone 6S purely because the OTA doesn't fit in storage, but both phones always behave the same way.
The one instance where I could see using DU is if Apple was still signing the previous release and I wanted to revert to that release.
Then you would plug your phone in. Do a back up just in case. Got to finder, hold alt, select check for update, select the IPSW you’ve downloaded, and without any data lost, the IPSW is installed on your phone. No back up needed.
No need to go anywhere near a DU mode. You can go up, down, reinstall the same iOS using this method, just stay on the same version, ie 15.
People barely remember what the had for breakfast today let alone your very cold hard facts from 90s tech!!Back in the 90s, Apple users used to take the piss out of Windows for having to restore/reformat/reinstall to fix things. Here we are 30-odd years later
In all seriousness now yeah that’s the go to line now on iOS. Just erase and restore. Hah.
Recovery Mode Update will do the same thing, download the current iOS version for your device and install it to the phone. Won't touch any of the user data.
If you knew where to get ipsw, that website will also inform you, which version is still signed by Apple. You can just use 3 simple steps like I posted previously. It will clean up everything, reinstall the whole OS and restore your data afterward.
OK, just found I have the same problem on my other iPad which is on 15.3.1 but don’t have the problem on my iPhone which is on 15.4 so I guess it’s an FB issue rather than an iOS issue.
“Such and such works fine for me” Ok? That’s nice but useless—unless you can offer any input that might get such and such working for whom it isn’t.
Aside from running iOS on a jailbroken and/or ancient device, and aside from the occasional slip-up, there is virtually no excuse for most basic things to go awry given Apple’s obsessive, granular, end-to-end control over essentially every aspect of its hardware and software and careful oversight of the App Store approval process.
Even if something goes wrong for one user among billions it should suffice to raise red flags because as much as fanboys love to excuse Apple’s missteps (especially as of late) all it does is enable such sloppiness and laziness down the road in greater numbers.
Start putting Apple on blast and stop trying to gaslight the end user into going through a convoluted restore process or filing bug reports that clearly have been falling on deaf ears for some time now.
Also, if the over-the-air update process were the primary source of Apple’s declining software quality, surely they would have taken the time and steps to address it, but instead OTA installation continues to be regarded by Apple and the majority of users as the simplest and therefore the most logical way, the way that requires just one device and “just works.” And work it has, at least for said majority; I’d wager that the essence of the software being updated is the problem.
In such a walled, manicured garden it can’t possibly be “user error” 99% of the time. It’s Apple’s error.
Aside from running iOS on a jailbroken and/or ancient device, and aside from the occasional slip-up, there is virtually no excuse for most basic things to go awry given Apple’s obsessive, granular, end-to-end control over essentially every aspect of its hardware and software and careful oversight of the App Store approval process.
Even if something goes wrong for one user among billions it should suffice to raise red flags because as much as fanboys love to excuse Apple’s missteps (especially as of late) all it does is enable such sloppiness and laziness down the road in greater numbers.
Start putting Apple on blast and stop trying to gaslight the end user into going through a convoluted restore process or filing bug reports that clearly have been falling on deaf ears for some time now.
Also, if the over-the-air update process were the primary source of Apple’s declining software quality, surely they would have taken the time and steps to address it, but instead OTA installation continues to be regarded by Apple and the majority of users as the simplest and therefore the most logical way, the way that requires just one device and “just works.” And work it has, at least for said majority; I’d wager that the essence of the software being updated is the problem.
In such a walled, manicured garden it can’t possibly be “user error” 99% of the time. It’s Apple’s error.
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Actually, working for 99% of users is actually really good.
I’m an admitted fanboy, but if it fails for one user, I’m okay with that.
It could be flower garden or a vegetable garden it’s still a garden. You can’t make a perfect software. These OS have millions of lines of code and tons of more new configs as each user installs different new apps on it.
There are bugs in the OS, there are bugs in the apps and then there are those that are a combination of the two. Vendors like Apple, Google or Microsoft can only work on the OS and for a part of how the apps interact with the system. There are still aspects of it no one vendor can oversee. That’s the reason behind why some users have specific issues while others don’t even on the exact same model. These are incredibly complex systems and you need hundreds if not thousands of developers to sort thru all of the issues. It’s not financially feasible for any company to ensure a perfect system for every device.
All that said, I do think Apple’s QoC went downhill in the recent years but not sure how much of that can be attributed to the growing complexity of iOS etc. With each iOS comes new features and each new feature increases the possibility of new bugs. Circle of life!
One in a billion. That’s ludicrous. That’s like 99.99999%. Anyone would take that any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Has it occurred to you that the beta program - developer and public - is designed to ferret out the very things you are complaining about?
There is no such thing as perfection on this earth. Users should stop expecting it and be thankful for what they have.
I’m looking at perfection right now, it comes in the form of a iPhone 13 Pro Max, running the latest and greatest iOS 15.4 with that finger licking good ProMotion 2.0. 😁
Perfection. 👇🥰
Agree, always be thankful for what you have. 🙏
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Don’t know what you’re talking about. ??
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