After trying to do a restore while my iPhone was on iOS 9.3 Beta 3, I noticed that all of the apps on my home screen were scattered across all of the pages, and I was no longer able to log into iTunes, iCloud, or any other Apple services from my iPhone.
I spent last night working on getting my backup to work, and since I finally got it working, I wanted to share what I found could work. I tried the following twice, and it worked both times:
I spent last night working on getting my backup to work, and since I finally got it working, I wanted to share what I found could work. I tried the following twice, and it worked both times:
- Archive your 9.3 backup - You will need to reference it later, so you'll want to keep it handy
- Open iTunes
- Preferences
- Devices
- Right click on the backup
- Press Archive
- You won't be able to get your backup to work properly when restored to iOS 9.3 Beta 3, so you'll want to download 9.3 Beta 2. It's available here: https://steveninelmasi.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/ios-9-3-beta-2-ipsw-indir-download/
- Restore the iPhone using iOS 9.3 Beta 2
- Plug your iPhone into your computer with iTunes open
- alt-click on the restore iPhone button
- Select the downloaded iOS 9.3 Beta 2 .ipsw
- Restore the iPhone
- Restore backup - You should now be able to restore using that 9.3 Beta 3 backup that you archived.
- Click restore backup from inside iTunes
- Select the previously archived backup
- let it restore, restart, and connect to iTunes after restarting.
- Go though post-restore setup on the iPhone - You still won't be able to log in. You can try, but it will say that you are denied until after the next step.
- Upgrade to iOS 9.3 Beta 3 through the OTA update in the preferences -> General -> update
- Note: you don't have to wait for all of your apps to sync over. iTunes will resume copying over apps the next time you sync.
- Once you have the update installed, you should be able to log into your Apple services.
