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I only became aware of iMazing's ability to update iOS versions on iPhone/iPad last week and when iOS 12 came out yesterday here in Australia I decided to give it a go.
In the past i have preferred to update iOS versions with iTunes as it always seemed a safer option to updating on the device itself and I'd be silly if I didn't to a backup first anyway right?
So as I've been backing up my iPhone 7 locally to iMazing for some time (I also backup automatically to iCloud) I decided to give it a go.
The process is amazingly easy.
You connect your device, scroll down to Update to ....., you can also choose an IPSW file at this time if you have one, in my case it said iOS 12 and click that. The app then performs a backup and archives it (just in case things go pear shaped) then iMazing downloads the upgrade from Apples servers, installs it and its done.
Just one last thing; iTunes will ask to verify the eligibility of the device just ignore the message cancel and quit iTunes.
You can backup to iTunes after the process is complete if you like.
In the past i have preferred to update iOS versions with iTunes as it always seemed a safer option to updating on the device itself and I'd be silly if I didn't to a backup first anyway right?
So as I've been backing up my iPhone 7 locally to iMazing for some time (I also backup automatically to iCloud) I decided to give it a go.
The process is amazingly easy.
You connect your device, scroll down to Update to ....., you can also choose an IPSW file at this time if you have one, in my case it said iOS 12 and click that. The app then performs a backup and archives it (just in case things go pear shaped) then iMazing downloads the upgrade from Apples servers, installs it and its done.
Just one last thing; iTunes will ask to verify the eligibility of the device just ignore the message cancel and quit iTunes.
You can backup to iTunes after the process is complete if you like.
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