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PSA! Up to iOS 10.3 Re-Signing!

Will you downgrade to iOS 10?

  • Yes

    Votes: 44 40.4%

  • No

    Votes: 26 23.9%

  • Stay on iOS 11

    Votes: 39 35.8%
  • Total voters
    109
Apple won't let you downgrade your iOS device because "security", but yet they are happily selling you old versions of macOS (10.6-10.8) that no longer receive security updates on their online store without telling you about the risks of running an unpatched OS. I can't find any reasonable explanations to this other than trying to get your $$$ whatever ways they can.
 
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Agreed. And on top of that they're also not forcing iOS upgrades on us which results in the same ending as if we were permitted to downgrade (IE I'm on 10.3.3 just like I would have been if I had upgraded to 11 and been able to roll back). Maybe there's more of an emotional response when you witness your phone slowing down when you upgrade it, making a new purchase more likely. Who knows what the focus groups indicated :)
 
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macintoshmac said:
Get a Nokia 3310 if battery life is the only concern. Or a BlackBerry Bold if you want great battery life that lasts days and email. For everything else, there's compromise.
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iPhone X on iOS 11 and iPad Pri on iOS 10 running flawlessly.

The issue is Apple’s software quality.
 
The whole you have to be on iOS 11 for security patches is bogus. They could easily release a security patch for iOS 10 as well. It is just developer and support cost, and the reason why they push to migrate users to the latest versions.

Multiple other OS's have the latest security patches on older versions.
 
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hp79 said:
I so regret updating my SE to 11 and missed the chance to downgrade to 10.3.3.
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Yes I am in the same boat I have rolled back to 11.2 on my 6sp it’s its much better battery life then the current version but it’s not as good as 10.3.3 as did I miss the limit to downgrade but I’ve got the ispw ready to go if it’s open again and... anyone want to downgrade should do the same imho
 
You just have to get the Identifier for your device. The 5S is called iPhone6,1 or iPhone6,2 depending on model. Find the grouping of those on the ineal page and you'll see what it's reporting as signed and not.
 
darrylcn said:
You just have to get the Identifier for your device. The 5S is called iPhone6,1 or iPhone6,2 depending on model. Find the grouping of those on the ineal page and you'll see what it's reporting as signed and not.
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OK, Thanks.
 
hp79 said:
I so regret updating my SE to 11 and missed the chance to downgrade to 10.3.3.
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Definitely don’t put 11 on an SE. Kills the battery life from 2 days of use, to barely making it 1. Same thing here...
 
aengelbrecht said:
The whole you have to be on iOS 11 for security patches is bogus. They could easily release a security patch for iOS 10 as well. It is just developer and support cost, and the reason why they push to migrate users to the latest versions.

Multiple other OS's have the latest security patches on older versions.
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Out of curiosity, what devices do you use in your everyday life, and what versions are they on?
 
macintoshmac said:
Out of curiosity, what devices do you use in your everyday life, and what versions are they on?
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Not sure why it is relevant, but I use an iPad Air and iPhone X both on 11.2.2. Also use 2 Macs on MacOS 10.12.6. Regularly use 2 Windows 7 VMs, Windows 2012 and 2012R2 as well as various RedHat and CentOS 7.x Linux servers. My point being that Apple could have patched iOS 10 for security fixes like most software vendors regularly does for older versions in addition to newer versions of their SW. Support for one major release back is not unreasonable to ask, especially if your new release severely hampers your existing users devices/platforms.

One of the reasons why I chose Apple as my base platform for both device and desktop/laptop purposes are that they had a good support and upgrade path. Well that was until iOS11, which was the worst experience I have had from them in a long time. Reminds of Windows releases in the past that was nonviable for upgrades in reality, and forcing users to buy new platforms.
 
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Oh...My...Gosh!!! Thank you so much for this thread!

I've had a iPad 2 sitting in the closet for years that was pretty much useless on iOS 9.

Now that Apple, for whatever reason is signing iOS 6.1.3, I was able to downgrade my iPad 2 back to it, and my gosh it's like a new machine now!

It will pretty much just be used for web browsing, Youtube, Netflix and Hulu. But now it's back to being speedy again!

Thanks again.
 
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