I googled it, and found to go back to my invitation email and follow the links till it got to install the beta. That did it. I've got the button back
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iPhone Who else is going back to 8.4?
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I done it on the Saturday morning, had iOS9 on the Friday night and my phone got really hot once again! Turned it off and unplugged it.
I've only been using it for a couple of days, but the only glitch I've experienced so far is the new News app crashing once. Battery life seems unchanged from 8.x. I'm actually sort of surprised...but like you, I'll be keeping it unless some bugs start swarming.
I've been having that on and off, for different apps at different times.
Also of course the expected few apps that are not working (basically crashing at startup).
That said, the biggest issue I've been running into is a dark screen while in a call--essentially I'll start a call normally and then either the screen will go dark on its own (if I'm a headset or speakerphone) or it will go dark because I put it to my ear, and after that I can't get it back to come on during the call. Only after the call is done could I usually get things back by using the lock/sleep button, but once even that didn't work and I had to do a reset essentially. This screen issue doesn't happen all the time, but isn't all that rare for me either. So far the top thing that is making me consider going back to iOS 8 for now, but I'm still not completely decided on it.
Went back to 8.4 on all my devices (mini, 6 and 6+). I was having a lot of issues with apps crashing, control center not working, and mail not fetching yahoo mail (gmail was fine). Feels like a new device again, everything smooth. I think I'm done with betas in general, it's fun to test new features, but a pain when old features don't work.
Totally agree! I did load it on my iPad though. Went back to 8.4 on phone. I did like the new keyboard how you can easily see lower case from upper case. The spotlight never did work for me.
To many issues with IOS 9 public Beta for myself, started off with the install not working, killing the LTE which disabled the messaging there by killing the two factor authentication to the Apple ID...did a restore from a good backup back to 8.4. Tried the upgrade again with same result but I had logged on the beta site and authenticated before running IOS 9 install...ran the profile again the install took. My phone kept locking up, losing LTE and wireless, apps were not really responding, decided to call it a day restore back to IOS 8.4 for now.
There will more than likely be another version of the public beta at some point in the future, but no one really knows exactly when or what it will be like (although certainly the expectation is that it will be better at least in the overall sense).
The only real problem I'm having on the 9 PB is the phone won't automatically backup to iCloud. My Air 1 is having more problems—apps crashing, get a blank screen when I'm supposed to get a "Open With" message, etc.—but I'm gonna stick with 9 anyway. Most of my real work is done on my MBP and El Capitan is running smoothly.
I went back to 8.4 on my Air 2 in a day. WiFi would disconnect and even forget my home network. Went back to 8.4 on my 6 plus after 4 days. Downloads would stop when on WiFi and webpages would stop opening. 4G was displayed most of the time. LTE would rarely come up like it normally would. A few crashes and a few times stuck in landscape but 8.4 does that too.
It could be next week or it could be in a few more weeks. Apple hasn't really had a solid public beta schedule across all of the public betas they've done so no one is really sure. They typically don't update the public beta as often as the developer betas though.
Went back to 8.4 but can't restore from back up because the back up I have is from ios9 which I guess is not compatible with 8.4? so I have to use a month old back up...oh well
No you don't. I've done it more times than I can remember without going into DFU mode.
Dropbox kept crashing, Snapseed won't Save to the Camera Roll and other miscellaneous bugs sent me back to 8. Nice thing is after the restore my 4s is working really well on 8.4.
I really miss the lowercase/uppercase keyboard in 9 as well as the UI tweaks. Why it took 2 years to get some sort of Shift fix is beyond me.
I really miss the lowercase/uppercase keyboard in 9 as well as the UI tweaks. Why it took 2 years to get some sort of Shift fix is beyond me.
My mistake then. Whenever I reset my devices from beta, I like to use DFU mode to make sure that no 'beta junk' gets left behind.
No need to use DFU mode. Download the iOS .ipsw from Apple and alt/shift + click restore and double click the file. Been doing it for years.
The great thing is that there are two methods to doing the same task. You have your way, but I personally prefer DFU/recovery as it's a somewhat more automated process, compared to what you described.
I thought you could go to your iTunes .plist file in your backup and modify the version from 9.0 to 8.4? I did that but it keeps telling me the version is corrupted or not compatible