Regretting trying out the iOS 18 beta? Here’s how to remove the iOS beta and recover your iPhone back to how it was.
Beta testers have been exploring the features in iOS 18 for some time now, having raced to install the beta on their iPhones as soon as it became available. Testing the beta of iOS 18 gave testers a glimpse of what was to come in iOS 18 and bragging rights when it came to exploring the new features.
But running a beta can have more risks than benefits, and if it messes up your phone. Now iOS 18 is out beta testers may decide to move on from the bugs and enjoy the tried and tested features. Luckily switching from the iOS 18 beta to the full version of iOS 18 is a lot easier than before the new software launches. Unfortunately, the process of downgrading from the iOS 18 beta to iOS 17 isn’t as simple. We’ll detail both methods below.
If the buggy beta of iOS 18 becomes more trouble than it is worth here’s how to remove it and install the full version of iOS 18, or to revert back to iOS 17 if you’ve had enough of iOS 18 for now.
How easy this process is depends at what stage of the beta testing phase you are. We’ll start with downgrading the beta of iOS 18 to iOS 17, before discussing removing iOS 18 beta to install the final version and leaving the beta program. How to switch from iOS 18 beta to iOS 18
Now iOS 18 is here it is easy to update to that from the beta. Here’s how:
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You will find more information below on how to leave the beta program and stop getting beta updates, which you may want to do now the full version has arrived.
We run through How to downgrade an iPhone to an older version of iOS in a separate story. How to stop getting iOS Beta updates
The final version of iOS 18 has arrived, but Apple will continue to issue beta updates as it works on new features.
