Can You Stop an iPhone Update in the Middle?
There are two parts of the iOS update process where you can stop the update: during the download and during the installation. That’s because the over-the-air iOS updates happen in two steps: the iPhone first downloads the iOS update file to your iPhone before installing it. There’s no button to stop a download in progress, so you must temporarily disconnect your iPhone from the internet. To stop the download of the update file itself, even if the download is partially complete, follow these steps:
How Do I Stop iOS Update in Progress?
If the iOS update file has been partially or fully downloaded to your iPhone, you can still prevent it from being installed on your phone and changing your version of the iOS. You can even do this if the update has started but hasn’t yet finished. If your iOS update is in progress and you want to stop it, here’s what to do:
How to Control Automatic iOS Update Downloads and Installs
You can set your iPhone to download iOS updates and install them automatically. This feature makes it easy to keep your phone up to date, but you may prefer to have more control over when those downloads and installs happen. To choose your iOS update settings, follow these steps:
Download iOS Updates: This controls whether updates are downloaded but not installed (that’s the next setting). Move the slider to off/white to prevent automatic downloads. It will hide the second option. However, you can keep this slider set to on/green to download files but still control installation with the next option.Install iOS Updates: This controls whether updates that have already been downloaded are installed automatically or manually. To manually install the updates, move this slider to off/white.
