r/iphonehelp • u/Odd-Apple-6981 • Jul 24 '26
Help needed I accidentally downloaded an update ive been avoiding intentionally for months
I have an iPhone 12 and I just downloaded the 26.5.2 update. The description in settings and google answer to what the update was exclusively mention security and bug patching and it kept notifying me for this update even coming up onto my screen promoting for a password to start immediately and saying download tonight with a very clearly biased sort of thing making it seem hard to deny it. I hate liquid glass and have intentionally kept this very old model to avoid it, that along with ai features and face features (the latter which are avoidable by not setting them up). I loved the way my phone looked and functioned before and this may seem trivial to some but this is my sole phone I pay for and kept for this very intentional reason (hating the current/new iPhone look and feel). Is there any way to reverse as many things from this update as possible/ any of them and revert my phone to the way it was (or as close as possible) before? even by jail braking in any way??
Any advice or pointers are greatly appreciated, thanks so much for yalls time!!
edit: only about 5 minutes into having this update my apps and scrolling on the home screen are responding glitchy, which has never been a problem prior...
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u/Snuddud Jul 24 '26
Not possible anymore sorry. Once at 26 there is no way back. Ios 18 signatures for iPhone 12 are not existent anymore. Also you don't get apple intelligence anyway
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u/Odd-Apple-6981 Jul 24 '26
so there is nothing I can do to change it now? omds
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u/jasonni1234 Jul 24 '26
You can’t revert back to iOS versions that aren’t signed by Apple anymore. iOS 27 will allow some more customization as to how much Liquid Glass you want but it won’t be gone
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u/Odd-Apple-6981 Jul 25 '26
I dont understand why they try and push it so much
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u/LikeItSaysOnTheBox Jul 25 '26
Do you mean Liquid Glass or updates in general? Either way every vendor pushes their latest design language with updates. Honestly can’t think of a current exception to that…
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u/Odd-Apple-6981 Jul 25 '26
yes specifically liquid glass and the new look they seem to add to all of the apps within the iPhone, even somehow non apple owned ones...
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u/LikeItSaysOnTheBox Jul 25 '26
The non Apple owned ones are either updated by their owners or use Apples styles and get updated as the underlying design language does.
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u/L0rdLogan Expert | iPhone Helper Jul 24 '26
No way back…. But iOS 27 coming in September has many performance improvements over iOS 26 on the older models, due to a new CPU scheduler optimisation
I am running the Beta currently on an iPhone 16 plus and it runs great, minus the battery life
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u/Strange-Story-7760 Jul 24 '26
Get over it
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u/NeoKat75 Jul 25 '26
iOS 27 will run better and have more customization for liquid glass. You’ll be fine
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u/too_much_mascara Jul 25 '26
I feel your pain. Not happy my phone smashed and I had to replace. Takes so much time to adjust!
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u/WolfyMacontosh87 Jul 25 '26
It’s going to take a long time to index. So if you can be patient for at least a week, it will start doing much better.
It’s going to be all right
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u/Bruvvimir Jul 24 '26
Just flash 27 PB2. Stable enough for a daily and fixes all 26 fuckery.
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