Can I downgrade without losing my SMS, photos, etc?

[MacMartyr]

How can I safely downgrade to iOS 6 without losing my texts and photos? Can I load a iOS 7 backup to iOS6?

 

[bbfc]

How can I safely downgrade to iOS 6 without losing my texts and photos? Can I load a iOS 7 backup to iOS6?

There is no official way.

 

[Zellio]

Looks like you've become a, *ahem*... Martyr

 

[iAmirul]

How can I safely downgrade to iOS 6 without losing my texts and photos? Can I load a iOS 7 backup to iOS6?

Sadly you can't.. Tried and tested haha..

 

[MacMartyr]

Sadly you can't.. Tried and tested haha..

Have you tried trying to get back SMS from an iCloud backup?

 

[Tamagotchi]

Hmmm, I remember during the beta people were having issues with this. Their iOS7 info (SMS, Photos, etc) had been upgraded to iOS7, thus weren't compatible with iOS6.

The best thing you can do is to import all your photos to your Mac/PC and at least try to save those.

 

[chirop]

I managed to backup all my photos in the dropbox app.

i don't know if i'm going to downgrade yet.

 

[iAmirul]

Have you tried trying to get back SMS from an iCloud backup?

i dont use iCloud backup so I cant answer your question.. Sorry!

 

[mactumors]

Has anyone tried using an app like iExplorer to pull out SMS history and put it back in a different iOS version?
http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/

 

[Thefabo]

Apple iTunes does not let them restore a backup to an iPod iPad iPhone with older iOS version.

 

[TurnUpTheBass]

Apple iTunes does not let them restore a backup to an iPod iPad iPhone with older iOS version.

You actually can downgrade from 7.0 to 6.1.4 - just did - with my AT&T iPhone. Apparently there is a (non-official) 24-hour window in which this is still possible. Grab a 6.1.4 ipsw and do a custom restore. Very happy to be back - I really didn't like the overly white / flat look with the ugly icons and some of the changes they did to mail and calender. I also like the old "search" better.
Other than than that, I liked the new features of IOS7 a lot (especially all the former jailbreak tweaks being embedded).

 

[oplix]

you can downgrade and restore from icloud. the last backup before you updated to ios 7. This will restore everything except music to the way it was prior to update. Any texts/etc after you updated will not be there.