Thanks. Another MR user suggested same, checked it out and it appears it will also update (and you need to pay). Latest suggestion is to try iCloud restore.
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Apple Says Option to Stay on iOS 14 Was Always Meant to Be Temporary
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Then there is the Larry Fink dictating to global corporates via Blackrock angle and the whole "forcing behaviours". It all makes sense. They're out to make you impoverished and hooked into their digital prison system.
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Susan Wagner, a co-founder of Blackrock, sits on the Board of Apple Inc. since 2014.
BlackRock CEO and WEF globalist Larry Fink says corporations must work harder to ‘force’ people to change behaviors
Our last two articles have attempted to peel back the layers of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its drive to usher in an all-new type of global society based on total information domination. If …
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Look at the top shareholders:
www.investopedia.com
You have Blackrock and Vanguard in there. Apple hasn't been Apple for a long time.
Top Apple Shareholders
The top Apple shareholders are Arthur Levinson, Tim Cook, Jeff Williams, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and Berkshire Hathaway.
You have Blackrock and Vanguard in there. Apple hasn't been Apple for a long time.
Ok finally got the time to try this as a solution - it's a negative.
Download & Install of 15.4.x stage is required to progress an iCloud restore from an iCloud backup.
I think Apple has pulled up the drawbridge on this and are determined to leave no wiggle room.
Bottom link: You can no longer restore your backed up data (snapshot) as is.
Apple is holding user data to ransom.
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Having done some searching online and found various restore guides, comments and also posts here, I am lead to believe there was a time when you could restore say an iPhone from your backup with the iOS version at time of backup without a forced upgrade of iOS to access your restored data.
So you did a backup with iPadOS 14, but it's requiring you to upgrade to iPadOS 15 to restore a iPadOS 14 backup?
That is shady!
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iPhone 6s 14.x restore to another erased iPhone 6s.
Update required to 15.4 either Via iTunes or iCloud restore, no option to restore backup in a snapshot state.
I’m sure most blast through it and just click download & install without too much thought.
The final option now, well two options are:
Replace the bust screen.
Install iOS 14.x via, IPSW Files for iPhone but that’s potentially high risk.
A class action would be nice right about now. ?
Can't you back up the one iPhone 6S with the latest iCloud backup, then hold the erased one over it with the NFC (camera) to restore? I don't think that option requires OS upgrade.
I did this initially and thus how I discovered the forced upgrade on restore problem.
How I don’t fully grasp your restore workflow here. Why woul I restore to the origin phone when it has all the data intact with iOS 14.x
Ya know basically I want to clone this iPhone 6s to another 6s which does not have a busted screen.
Like I said in this or another topic. Gimme carbon copy closer for iOS!
To add, in the past I have used this NFC or whatever it’s called method when upgrading to higher iPhone model, but have no recollection of being forced to upgrade.
Since this was probably before CSAM became a known issue, so it was probably during a 13/14 iOS version point.
I’ll double check that option again in case I missed something.
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Yea so what I've done as a stop gap. Is setup the spare iPhone without importing anything and swapped out the sim, to restore functionality. Seems some iCloud stuff has sync'd over once you sign in with the AppleID, maybe contacts and a few other things but not sure exactly, it's a fairly vanilla install.
The erased iPhone came in at iOS 14.4, so that is where it resides, the backup I needed to restore was on 14.8.
So what a place to be eh.
Time to look at the new generation of dumb phones me thinks.
Back in the day truly the best call quality on the GSM phone networks was the Nokia 6310i, only messenger apps like FaceTime, signal etc. etc have managed to improve the call quality over data, but before this the 6310i had a very warm and present audio experience weeks of battery life too!!!
Simpler times.
One of the hooks the NWO have in ya now is the need to use a iOS or Android phone to access Bank services online, Communism 2.0 folks... before digital vax pass tyranny this was the opening salvo in the brave new world, the take over of cyberspace by the ancient regime.
Why do ya know, they've updated a classic!
Might be a viable off ramp for some. ?♂️
Might be a viable off ramp for some. ?♂️
That explains it. You can’t restore backup from newer iOS to older iOS.
I recently did an iCloud backup and restore from 14.8.1 to 14.8.1 and that worked just fine.
Yes I knew this, but how can you get the 14.4 up to the 14.8 without stepping outside Apple signed iOS… you can’t afaik or can you?
I did come across a guide for altering info.plist of the backup. Maybe this will work. Need to find it.
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Ah found it
reincubate.com
How to restore an iOS backup to an earlier version of iOS
If you find yourself needing to restore a backup from a device with a newer version of iOS than the target device, you'll need to be aware that restoring a newer backup to a downgraded iOS device isn't possible without a few tweaks. If you try without, you'll see this message:
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It's possible that the server checks to see what model you are trying to restore to, and if it's capable of running the newest iOS it will refuse to allow you to proceed without updating first. I.E., restoring an iPhone 6S with iOS 15 to an iPhone 6 with iOS 12.
I assume this would work since the iPhone 6 can't go any further than iOS 12.
As far as I'm aware, you can't restore to an older firmware regardless of what the highest firmware is on an older device. Apple is likely trying to prevent potential issues arising from mismatched settings and data.
I see no reason why 14.8 can not overwrite 14.4 in a user activated restore event, other than Apple not signing that version or something like that because magical reasons.
It's as if Apple believes it's iPhone backup & restore system is:
a) not secure, and
b) not technically reliable.
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