How to downgrade iPhone app? Having a large quantity of apps will make us upgrade and update our iPhone and iPod touch, and this kind of activity is becoming more often and often and evolved to be daily activity.
But there’s a problem that usually occurs in this activity because not all updates are made equally, sometimes the update not giving us a hand yet a punch! So before you start to do anything nasty like smacking your iPhone to the floor, you better not, you are able to downgrade the app back to the way you love it.
Here are ways on How to downgrade iPhone app:
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1. Navigate to the Mobile Applications folder. Music>iTunes>Mobile Applications. To do this first step, just be sure there’s previous version of the app. But if the app is still new or you just bought it, there’s no previous versions.
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2. Remove the update in question to the desktop, or anywhere else on the Mac besides the Mobile Applications folder. Quit and restart iTunes. Drag the older version of the app to the iTunes library. You may be confronted with a dialog dox warning you you are replacing an app with an older version. That’s exactly what you want to do.
So long iNetwork Test. For now…
3. Delete the app from your iPhone. It’s time to delete the app from your iPhone. Please remember any data you’ve saved will be lost when the downgrade process takes place and You’ll be warned by your iPhone about this. Be sure on which one you choose to downgrade, how much data inside it, and if you’re ok of losing it.
Reinstall to the good ol’ days. Click to embiggen.
4. Attach your iPhone to iTunes, navigate to the Applications tab in iTunes and add a check next to the app in question to have it reinstalled. Click apply and sync your iPhone.
Before and after. Bug fixes be damned! Cick to embiggen.
5. And then the iTunes will be reinstalling the app on your iPhone. Now you can now enjoy and go back to your app using ways without all the bug fixes and those fancy updates.
And from now on every time you want to check for app updates, iTunes will be presenting you with the latest version of the app you downgraded. To continue your old-school app-using ways, instead of clicking “Download All Free Updates,” just download the apps you want individually.
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