Good afternoon:
Prior to purchasing my IPhone 7 I had become accustomed to clicking remind me later twice a day when prompted to install the latest IOS update. However, since I bought my IPhone 7 in June running IOS 10.3.3 (and restored it from a backup from the 5S that could no longer keep a charge), I've consistently encountered the following:
1. The updated IOS auto downloads, then prompts me that a new update is available and asks if I want to install.
2. I click remind me later.
3. The usual choices appear of install tonight or remind me later. I click remind me later again.
4. When I wake up the next morning, upon picking up my phone, I am informed that the IOS update has been successfully installed. This happens with no interaction from me in terms of clicking an install button or entering my pass code.
Having this occur with incremental updates isn't a big deal. However, I don't update to major IOS releases until Apple has ironed out many of the bugs.
My web searches on preventing the automatic install of IOS updates have not yielded a whole lot of information, or rather, one would have to trick the phone into not checking for updates, which I am not inclined to do.
I don't mind if IOS 11 auto downloads, and I don't mind clicking remind me later over and over again, but I do mind the update auto installing overnight when I have clicked remind me later on every screen on which the option appears.
Has anyone else experienced this? Solutions?
Thank you.
Comments
Delete update file
Go to settings,general,storage,manage storage and remove the IOS 11 update. This will usually give you a week before it is downloaded again and you get the reminder. I also never update when a major update comes out.
My phone
My phone has not yet asked me to update. I will attempt to back it up on the PC later so if it does force me into iOS 11, I can go back to 10 using iTunes. As for disabling auto-updates completely, I think Apple doesn't allow that. At least, not as far as I know of.
stop it
Hi. Your're right that Apple doesn't allow disabling. However, I found something helpful. One time when Apple wanted to install an update at 4:00 in the morning, I stopped it completely. If my memory serves me right, (this only happened once), I went to my settings general softare update and there was a button that said stop or not now or something like that. I'd look for a button that says something like that or similar.
I tried being an early adopter too with 10, and well I learned my lesson. Some issues were minor, others were serious and I had to find many a work-around. So, I'm waiting until Apple gives me the alert on my screen. Hope this helps.