No going back to iOS 6 = no more Apple purchases! I'm starting a movement

[Black Magic]

It's so sad... I used to be so excited about apple products. I remember the anticipation waiting on line at nite for the iphone 4. No I see how blindly you are all led like sheep, or like communists who parrot the party line released by Pravda. Apple says no access to io6, Apple must be right. The poor soul who downloaded the Io7 and is miserable about it is treated like a troll or called to blame because they trusted the upgrade without doing enough research... And you all defend this corporation blindly without question. And this makes me firm in my resolve that what has happened here is very, very wrong, and that the consumer must be protected from this arrogant corporation ....

Go stand outside Apple HQ and picket. That will teach them!

Seriously, all this time and energy you are wasting complaining on a forum accomplishes what exactly? What reaction were you hoping to get? Again, if you are that unhappy, go buy an Android phone and join an Android forum.

 

[johnothy]

I agree with the OP. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to downgrade to iOS 6 if you don't like 7. I didn't update my phone and am not going to for now. People I work with that have iPhones don't want it either because they don't care for the look of it. They should make it customizable with themes so people can keep their apps and overall animation like it is.

 

[rider96]

Go stand outside Apple HQ and picket. That will teach them!

Seriously, all this time and energy you are wasting complaining on a forum accomplishes what exactly? What reaction were you hoping to get? Again, if you are that unhappy, go buy an Android phone and join an Android forum.

With enough support they would open the window.... Or in the future they would leave it open long enough to allow those unhappy with the new system to revert... But I guess many of you are so brainwashed that you can not appreciate the rights of the consumer versus the practices of a mega corporation.

 

[DollaTwentyFive]

I just started a movement myself. That's what I love most about the iPad. Perfect for the bathroom. I will line up to buy another.

 

[hakuryuu]

Honestly unlike many of you on this board I was not closely following the development of the new io7. But I AM like the majority of consumers who trust that an upgrade will not seriously alter the product the purchase... They certainly should be able to bring the product back to its previous state ... To not allow that tramples the rights of the consumer

I'm curious.. what has been so seriously altered about iOS that you can't use it?

I ask because in my view there is no vast functional change about how to use my iPhone/iPad. If nothing else it is more fluid and easier to use than ever before.

If your entire complaint is about the way it looks then no one can help you. You are not a special snowflake nor are you part of the blizzard you imagine yourself being a part of.

The rights of the consumer extend as far as they are able to choose something (in this case: whether or not to upgrade). There is nothing stopping anyone from reading/not reading about the product and any changes that may occur. It is up to you to understand what is going to happen when you tap the screen to allow the upgrade to happen. Apple does not have to give you a way out nor is there any incentive for them to do so.

 

[R.Stoychev]

I am still getting used to ios 7, the only think I don't like are the colors and there is so much white but the new features are nice !

 

[EJ8]

(retarded) Thread of the Year.

 

[rider96]

And take a look on the io6 forum...consumers complaining they can not get rid of the upgrade request, and space being taken up by the io7 download they did not authorize.... Apple coaxes you to upgrade, resistance is futile, there is no going back.... Sheesh...

 

[Seiga]

I am still getting used to ios 7, the only think I don't like are the colors and there is so much white but the new features are nice !

That's because apple stole that layout from Google's Holo theme. Oh snap!

Love how this topic's real issue is "Choice". Choice to switch back to another version of the OS. You people talk highly on apple, yet Apple is the company that says accept our way, or don't choose us at all. That's why I will never ever return to apple.

 

[JackieInCo]

I upgraded my 4S and iPad Mini to 7.0 a few hours after release. I ran it till Friday morning and discovered there was a bug with an app that I use and it's in app notifications. There was no way to dismiss them in 7.0 other than closing the app and then reopening. It's a social app so I would get sometimes 20 or more in app notifications in a few minutes so it was a pain to use that way.

I downgraded beck to 6.0 on Friday morning and I'll wait till this app gets updates to work with 7.0. They put out an update for the iPhone Friday afternoon but I'll wait till the iPad version is updated before I go back to 7.0 on both.

 

[bdrake47]

That's because apple stole that layout from Google's Holo theme. Oh snap!

Love how this topic's real issue is "Choice". Choice to switch back to another version of the OS. You people talk highly on apple, yet Apple is the company that says accept our way, or don't choose us at all. That's why I will never ever return to apple.

And yet here you are still. Posting on an Apple-centric board, and displaying your Apple devices in your sig.

 

[WeegieMac]

I agree with the OP. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to downgrade to iOS 6 if you don't like 7. I didn't update my phone and am not going to for now. People I work with that have iPhones don't want it either because they don't care for the look of it. They should make it customizable with themes so people can keep their apps and overall animation like it is.

The unhappiest voices are always the loudest but they are also always certainly the minority.

 

[JayJayAbels]

Welcome to the wonderful world of modern technology!

Sell your device and simply purchase a device with iOS 6 on it.

Or move to Windows/Android. You'll have a blast with their mobile OS's!

Enjoy!

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That's because apple stole that layout from Google's Holo theme. Oh snap!

Love how this topic's real issue is "Choice". Choice to switch back to another version of the OS. You people talk highly on apple, yet Apple is the company that says accept our way, or don't choose us at all. That's why I will never ever return to apple.

Ohhh the irony...

 

[WeegieMac]

It's so sad... I used to be so excited about apple products. I remember the anticipation waiting on line at nite for the iphone 4. Now I see how blindly many of you are led like sheep, or like communists who parrot the party line released by Pravda. Apple says no access to io6, Apple must be right. The poor soul who downloaded the Io7 and is miserable about it is treated like a troll or called to blame because they trusted the upgrade without doing enough research... And you defend this corporation blindly without question. And this makes me firm in my resolve that what has happened here is very, very wrong, and that the consumer must be protected from this arrogant corporation .... And it would be so very simple for apple to allow a week or two window for those who want to revert....

You had three days to downgrade. You missed the window.

I buy Apple products because of the eco-system and the amount of apps I've bought as well as the fact iPhone and iPad are the best quality devices around. Nothing and no one touches Apple for build quality and, if you have a device recent enough to run it in full, iOS 7 is superb.

Your whining is becoming quite irritating. Get on with your day, there's more to be surely be getting on with that making the same point over and over.

 

[oVerboost]

If they let people use iOS6 what are these people going to do when apps are optimised for iOS7 and these same people complain their apps crash/lag etc???

Give it a proper try to get used to it, and then decide. If you feel Apple is no longer for you, so be it, for every one customer that leaves, there's two joining up to the iphone / apple following.

This is no different to previous iOS releases, so how come you've not left before?

Give it a go first, as the majority love iOS7 which makes it a success, and it's in it's very early stages still too,

If you think Android is better, you must be joking!!! Glitchy, slow and you have to use so many third party apps or downloads to get it to look how you want.

 

[Donki]

It's so sad... I used to be so excited about apple products. I remember the anticipation waiting on line at nite for the iphone 4. Now I see how blindly many of you are led like sheep, or like communists who parrot the party line released by Pravda. Apple says no access to io6, Apple must be right. The poor soul who downloaded the Io7 and is miserable about it is treated like a troll or called to blame because they trusted the upgrade without doing enough research... And you defend this corporation blindly without question. And this makes me firm in my resolve that what has happened here is very, very wrong, and that the consumer must be protected from this arrogant corporation .... And it would be so very simple for apple to allow a week or two window for those who want to revert....

Nobody minds someone stating an opinion, it's the rest of the "I'm starting a movement" crap that's childish and annoying. I don't know what kind of movement he's talking about, maybe he's just having a pooh for all I know.

As for you calling people u have never met sheep, simply for the tech they buy, I feel a little sorry for you to be honest if that's the way you judge others. If you don't like it don't buy it, I couldn't care less if you chose a CB radio as your communication device of choice. I like my Apple products , I like iOS7, to be honest I don't get the massive deal it's not that different than 6 IMPO.

 

[GoofyCyborg]

I have to say i dont like the look of ios 7 at all, so much so i wont be getting another iphone anytime soon. Will stick with my 4s running ios 6 for now.

Hopefully they will address all the issues with it over the coming months and it will become more stable and more easy on the eye. If thats the case great i will update my devices and upgrade my 4s but if not then i will take my custom else where.

I dont understand why people are so quick to push the update button myself, i will say it is really annoying and not very helpful that apple do not allow you to turn off any update notifications and prevent any downloading of such firmware which eats away at your other storage! If you use your device for work or in a corperate environment updating could leave your devices unusable if the apps you use have not been updated to support the ios release.

 

[C DM]

Got to love the simple fact that the majority of replies are simply a pile of BS when it comes to the vast majority of typical iOS users who don't follow tech news or anything like that. They've prertty much have been conditioned by their carrier and Apple itself that there will be updates and that to stay secure and to have a working phone/device they should always update when prompted (yes it's a fact that this is how things are explained to a lot of non-tech savvy people to make it "simpler" for them).

They have nothing much to go by except that, and when days after an update is released (and the rollback window has already closed) their device downloads the update on its own without even their permission and then prompts them in various places to quickly update, why wouldn't most of them do it remembering what they've been always told about updates and having gone through some of them before where nothing much on the surface changed for them.

This is certainly a whole different kind of update that most of them likely never really expected not even imagined could happen given their lack of tech knowledge.

 

[Italianblend]

Is it really true that there is no way to revert back to ios 6?

 

[Svengali]

Good for you

 

[m00min]

I get what you're saying but, if Apple allowed users to go back, how far should they be able to go back? 6? 5? 1.x? If Apple endorsed "choose your own OS" then they would be required to support all those fragmented OS. The headache would grow exponentially. They can't be expected to write updates and apps to apply to a buttload of ancient operating systems.

Onward and upward...

Users should be allowed to install back to whatever the version of the OS the device originally shipped with. Who's expecting Apple to support it with updates? If I wish I can roll back my mac to an earlier version of OSX, why not my phone?

All you people telling the OP to move to Android are completely missing the point. He paid money for a device, he might have bought a lot of apps. Why should he have to throw all that away because Apple moved the goalposts? The problem would go away if Apple weren't so ridiculously controlling of devices THEY DON'T OWN.

 

[jonnyb]

I wish Steve was still alive so the OP could send him a long, rambling, whiny email about how awful iOS 7 is so that the reply would be a classic Jobs one liner like...

'We like it'.

 

[borostef]

Considering over 200 MILLION people are now on iOS 7. The idiots complaining that it's the worst thing ever represent less than 0.000001 percent of the people that upgraded.

If you were hidden under a rock for the summer then that's your problem. It was all over apple's site that iOS 7 was coming as well as here on macrumors. And besides LOOKING different, functionality is very much unchanged.

Deal with it, iOS 7 may not be perfect but it far from horrible and it's here to stay. DEAL WITH IT!

I WILL NOT! I REFUSE TO! And now what? Does yelling help? I think not...

 

[oVerboost]

But if they restored back, the apps they've paid money for wouldn't work, or wouldn't work for long... Ios7 isn't just a visual improvement, other unseen stuff is updated too. Stuff that 99.9% of people wouldn't notice.

I'm just glad these updates are free, no one has to update. It's not forced on anyone, and if people feel forced into updating by a box flashing up on their screen without finding out about the update and then moaning afterwards, probably shouldn't be owning something that has been this way since Apple rolled out the first gen iphone. Nothing's changed with how Apple do things, so why complain. Why take the time to sign up to this forum and complain, when they clearly couldn't be bothered to sign up before to find out about iOS7. It's been well documented for months!

 

[m00min]

But if they restored back, the apps they've paid money for wouldn't work, or wouldn't work for long...

What a load of rubbish. Are these apps going to combust in a fiery death? I've still got an old 3GS running iOS5 and it's apps are running just fine. Apple have even made it possible to install the last compatible version of an app (something they should have done a while ago).