{"id":337986,"date":"2017-04-11T03:33:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/10\/apple-stops-signing-ios-10-2-1\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T03:33:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T19:33:19","slug":"apple-stops-signing-ios-10-2-1-and-ios-10-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-stops-signing-ios-10-2-1-and-ios-10-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Stops Signing iOS 10.2.1 and iOS 10.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\" readability=\"46.391366906475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2015\/03\/IPSW-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-440820\"\/>Following the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/03\/apple-releases-ios-10-3-1\/\">iOS 10.3.1 on April 3<\/a>, Apple has stopped signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-10\/\">iOS 10<\/a>.2.1 and iOS 10.3, earlier versions of iOS that were previously available to consumers before the latest update was released.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who have upgraded to iOS 10.3.1 will no longer be able to downgrade their devices to iOS 10.2.1 or iOS 10.3.<\/p>\n<p>Apple routinely stops signing older versions of software updates after new releases come out in order to encourage customers to stay up to date.<\/p>\n<p>iOS 10.3.1 are now the only versions of iOS 10 that can be installed on iOS devices by the general public, but developers and public beta testers can also download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/10\/apple-seeds-ios-10-3-2-beta-2-to-developers\/\">iOS 10.3.2<\/a>, a future update that is currently being beta tested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2015\/03\/IPSW-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-440820\" \/>Following the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/03\/apple-releases-ios-10-3-1\/\">iOS 10.3.1 on April 3<\/a>, Apple has stopped signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-10\/\">iOS 10<\/a>.2.1 and iOS 10.3, earlier versions of iOS that were previously available to consumers before the latest update was released.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who have upgraded to iOS 10.3.1 will no longer be able to downgrade their devices to iOS 10.2.1 or iOS 10.3.<\/p>\n<p>Apple routinely stops signing older versions of software updates after new releases come out in order to encourage customers to stay up to date.<\/p>\n<p>iOS 10.3.1 are now the only versions of iOS 10 that can be installed on iOS devices by the general public, but developers and public beta testers can also download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/10\/apple-seeds-ios-10-3-2-beta-2-to-developers\/\">iOS 10.3.2<\/a>, a future update that is currently 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