Suggested iOS 15 update moved up in update screen (iOS 14.8.1)

[judino28]

I was prompted with the dreaded red badge on settings yesterday as well. I'm on 14.8.1. I did a combination of some previous suggestions: I created an "open app" shortcut with a grey gear icon and deleted the settings app from the home screen. Problem solved for now and the new icon fits in perfectly.

 

[Tr55]

You could try and start the iOS 15.1 update and then delete it from Settings > General > iPhone storage, red dot should be gone then

I have an original SE 16GB runs great with 14.8.1.

Today I get the 15.1 nag notification yet it tells me I don’t have room to download it and to make room. I have 3.8GB free and the update is about 4.5GB.

So I can’t do your great work around without stuffing about. I moved the setting app off the Home Screen instead.

I was hoping to get future updates to 14.8.1 like my friends iPhone 6 who gets regular updates to iOS 12!

 

[katbel]

Hi, anyone else on iOS 14.8.1 that noticed the iOS 15 update left its place in the bottom of the screen and now shows up as a "normal" update? The text about being up-to-date on 14.8.1 is gone. The change happened today, a couple of hours ago.

(I have automatic install and download of updates disabled)

It happened yesterday , dec 4th, on my iPad, not yet on the iPhone .
I’m on 14.8.1
I too guess Tim must be really short of upgrades to iOS 15.
Trying to think the red 1 is just a Christmas ornament, for now

P.s. it’s just a coincidence but my battery since yesterday last on 100% longer?!
After 1 hour and 41 min reading my iPad Pro 2017, it’s still shows full charge.
Just now went down to 99%. It wasn’t like that before ??

 

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[katbel]

You can also create a Shortcut to open the Settings app, and add that to the Home Screen in place of the actual app. It’s not perfect, but it avoids the f—-ing red dot.

Good idea !
Now I have settings without the red 1 and the real settings are far away in a page by itself.
Do you know how to avoid this pop up ?
I checked but there is nothing in the script to avoid the notification .
There was a trick to disable notifications in shortcuts, but of course, Apple took it away ?

 

[Nermal]

Not here. My phone is on 14.8.1, no red dots. Still no reason I can see to bother with iOS 15.

I got the prompt yesterday. All evidence points to 15 being buggy and, frankly, unnecessary so I deleted the pre-downloaded update, which was sufficient to make the red dot go away (at least for now). I have a big red "12" on my App Store icon anyway so what's one more?

 

[BB-8]

Yeah, I found deleting the pre-downloaded update from my iPad storage fixed the red dot for me. That was a few days ago and it still hasn’t popped back up, so I don’t mind doing it every once in a while when it will eventually turn back up.

I have no intention of voluntarily going to iPadOS 15 until they fix that utterly embarrassing, pathetic excuse for icon layouts that change up between the two different orientations. I remember feeling such relief when I went back to iPadOS 14 and every icon just stayed where it was meant to between the orientations.

I am otherwise fine with everything else, so I have iOS15 on my phone where this isn’t an issue.

 

[posguy99]

Yeah, I found deleting the pre-downloaded update from my iPad storage fixed the red dot for me. That was a few days ago and it still hasn’t popped back up, so I don’t mind doing it every once in a while when it will eventually turn back up.

The dot finally showed up on my phone, but there's nothing to delete. If you select the menu option it tells you that it needs to download the update.

Maybe after v15.2 I'll look again at whether I want it to install.

 

[Euroamerican]

14.8.1 here, and only seeing 15.1 offered as of 7/12/21. HOWEVER. I am absolutely sure I was offered both 14.8.1 and 15.1 simultaneously as of about three days ago. I must have accidentally authorized/OK/"Latered" 14.8.1 because I'm now on 14.8.1

 

[katbel]

Update: now it's on my iPhone as well.
Moved my Shortcut Settings in, Apple out

 

[MauiPa]

Reading some of these comments is the funniest thing. Personally, I am on developer beta program and have had iOS 15 for some time now, it is great. I really do try to understand what people are saying, but if it makes no sense to me, either it is because the comments really do not make any sense, or the point they are trying to make is not being presented clearly. So if you are one of complainers, how about stating your issues in a clear and factual manner. come on people, help me out here

 

[nebulosan]

come on people, help me out here

a red dot apologist among us,

 

[Euroamerican]

Turns out I must have "Latered" 15.1 because it got magically installed last night! I guess "Later" means "OK to install LATER", not "No, let's deal with this later!"...

But on the flip side, performance doesn't seem slower (yet.. hopefully never) on my iPhone 8.

 

[Tr55]

Reading some of these comments is the funniest thing. Personally, I am on developer beta program and have had iOS 15 for some time now, it is great. I really do try to understand what people are saying, but if it makes no sense to me, either it is because the comments really do not make any sense, or the point they are trying to make is not being presented clearly. So if you are one of complainers, how about stating your issues in a clear and factual manner. come on people, help me out here

iOS 15 sucks on the iPad, Safari is much more inconvenient to use. The bookmarks Sidebar thing sucks.

iOS may run OK on the latest hardware but forcing it on older hardware after Apple said we could stay on 14 is disappointing.

 

[selaing]

Found out this morning my IOS updated to 15.1.1 automatically. Now having to update my Apple Watch Series 3 to new OS. I hope this all works. It was not my choice!

 

[shakopeemn]

Found out this morning my IOS updated to 15.1.1 automatically. Now having to update my Apple Watch Series 3 to new OS. I hope this all works. It was not my choice!

At least it's not version x.0. We all will have to at some point ?

 

[Act3]

got the red notice back on my settings , for iOS 15.1.1

 

[Act3]

I got the prompt yesterday. All evidence points to 15 being buggy and, frankly, unnecessary so I deleted the pre-downloaded update, which was sufficient to make the red dot go away (at least for now). I have a big red "12" on my App Store icon anyway so what's one more?

I delete mine and the red notification cleared. Sometime today it showed back up. Thanks Apple.

 

[now i see it]

Red dot ? on Settings app is OK. Nag screens 7 times a day like they always used to do are not. We should all be grateful that the nag screens haven’t started — but it’s doubtful they’ll never come back.

 

[tonmischa]

I have on older SE 1stGen that is still on 14.8. This afternoon the Software Update panel showed iOS 15.1 (or 15.1.1) and on the bottom the option to update to 14.8.1.
Now - a few hours later - it only shows the option to update to 15.2.
Apple support on twitter says: "iOS 14.8.1 is no longer available to be downloaded."



Why didn't I update to 14.8.1 this afternoon?

 

[nebulosan]

I have on older SE 1stGen that is still on 14.8. This afternoon the Software Update panel showed iOS 15.1 (or 15.1.1) and on the bottom the option to update to 14.8.1.
Now - a few hours later - it only shows the option to update to 15.2.
Apple support on twitter says: "iOS 14.8.1 is no longer available to be downloaded."



Why didn't I update to 14.8.1 this afternoon?

iOS 14.8.1 is probably just gone because 14.8.2 is right around the corner

 

[katbel]

iOS 14.8.1 is probably just gone because 14.8.2 is right around the corner

No illusions, sorry: I checked on my old iPhone 6s -still on 14.4.2- and guess what?
Nothing but 15.2 iOS is suggested there .

 

[nebulosan]

No illusions, sorry: I checked on my old iPhone 6s -still on 14.4.2- and guess what?
Nothing but 15.2 iOS is suggested there .

That will never change, it was with iOS 14.5 the feature of two different update tracks got introduced.

If 14.8.2 is released, it's only for those on iOS 14.5+

 

[msephton]

I'm seeing this too.

On 14.8.1 and I'm in the United Kingdom.

I've not been forced to go to 15.2 at this point in time, but 14 no longer appearing on the iOS Settings > General > Software Update page.

So maybe only a matter of time?

I'm now using NextDNS on my router to try to hold of the update.

 

[nebulosan]

iOS 15.2 didn't just contain new features but a bunch of security fixes too. Many of those security issues it fixed should apply to iOS 14 as well. So if we don't get iOS 14.8.2 this week, I think there will be no more updates to iOS 14 at all.