After a torrent of complaints following yesterday’s iOS 8.0.1 update, Apple removed it from its servers. It has promised a new update in a few days, and explained to users who did update how they can downgrade.
As we reported, iOS 8.0.1 was released quickly to fix various bugs found in the initial 8.0 release. However, as soon as users began installing it, the complaints started rolling in. iPhone 6/6 plus users especially found that Touch ID no longer worked, and they had lost their cellular data connection.
The 8.0.1 update was stopped, and Apple has published a support page so that iPhone 6 users can downgrade to iOS 8.0 while they wait for the next update, coming ‘in the next few days’. To downgrade, you need to connect to iTunes via your Mac or PC. From the Apple support page:
How to downgrade to iOS 8.
1) Make sure that you’re using the latest version of iTunes.
2) Connect your iPhone to iTunes.
3) Back up your iPhone in iTunes on your Mac or PC. iCloud backups won’t restore to earlier versions, including iOS 8.0.
4) Download the file below that corresponds to your device:
5) Select the file that you just downloaded by doing one of these in iTunes:
– Mac: Press the Option key and click Check for Update.
– Windows: Press the Shift key and click Check for Update.
6) Press Update to install iOS 8 on your iPhone.
It was a surprise to see an iOS update released so quickly after the launch of iOS 8, and it’s quite unlike of Apple to get something like this so spectacularly wrong. The company is rightly proud of user adoption rates for its latest updates, but if iOS 8.0.2 doesn’t get things right, people may get nervous about applying future updates so readily.
Source: Apple
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