Hi all, Has anyone any experience downgrading the software on an iPhone? I was a bit hasty in upgrading to iOS 6.1 which means that I can no longer archive my apps when uploading new SDKs to iTunesconnect (like others, I’m waiting for BT to be Xcode 4.6/iOS 6.1 compatible). I see a few YouTube videos on the topic but would prefer if someone on the forum could make a recommendation? Any thoughts anyone? Many thanks!

I've got my iphone on IOS 6.1- Just needed to update Xcode and I can compile with no problem. What problems do you have? To downgrade, you'd have to be able to download the previous IOS version, and on itunes select to restore iphone while pressing the cmd or alt key, not sure. This will open finder and you can select the version you downloaded. Miguel

happened to me when i didnt update xcode, sounds like it needs an update as Madrod said

Sadly, you can't. However an upgrade to Xcode 4.6 isn't as bad as you might think. Cheers! -- Smug

There is one way. It depends on what firmware was on the device when you got it. If you restore to factory settings I would have thought it would go back to the iOS originally on the phone. I'm not sure so you might need to do more research but it kind of figures. You'll lose everything though.

So this is the problem I have: I now have iOS 6.1. Scenario 1: When I try to run with Xcode 4.6, I get tones of parsing errors which I know David and the team are working on resolving. It does let me go to the next step: archive and upload the SDK. I guess it would be rejected by the reviewer though, because of all the parsing errors - right? (I was surprised it let me get this far with all those parsing errors). Scenario 2: When I try to run my app on my device using an earlier version of Xcode (4.5.1.) I cannot select iOS 6.1 as the base SDK. It is still showing 6.0. When I try to run, I am getting “a valid provisional profile for this executable was not found”. I don’t get this error in scenario 1. Any thoughts? Thank you.

I dont think you'd get rejected due to all the parsing errors.

Really? Well I suppose it does work fine in the simulator…. I could give it a try.. You don’t think it’ll pose problems for users on iOS 6.1? Thanks for your help @MadRod.

You have your device with 6.1, its works fine on your device? Those warnings are for code that eventually will not be used anymore. But it works. Its just a warning. Errors, are what you're suppose to worry more about. if it works on your simulator and device, it will work on apple's. They dont open the binary, they receive and install the app ad any other user.I doubt they'd even know about those warnings. Just make sure to update the app when BT solves those warnings. At least this is my experince. Cheers.

Yeah, those warnings are basically because Apple changed the way the old Xcode wanted instruction, as opposed to the way the new Xcode wants instruction. But it's backward compatible, and the only results you're going to experience are those annoying warnings. I found out how to alleviate those, and posted an explanation here: https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=BCD244553C34C5A4AD6CEC3 but it's not required; several apps have been approved since the update; it's not going to be a Buzztouch issue if Apple rejects it. But fingers are crossed that they won't reject it at all :) Cheers! -- Smug

Ok, thanks to you both…. I guess I didn’t really understand how serious parsing errors were before now… now I know! I’ve gone ahead with the upload! Thanks again!!!

Cheers. Miguel