by: Jamie Cuevas

If you’ve installed the iOS 26 beta on your iPhone or iPadOS 26 beta onto iPad, and found it a little too buggy, unstable, or you’re simply not interested in iOS 26 any longer, you’re certainly not alone. While many adventurous Apple users jump onto the beta train to explore the new operating systems, it’s not unusual to discover that the experience isn’t always the smoothest ride, or that you have some critical incompatibility that makes the beta unworkable for you. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to downgrade from iOS 26 beta back to a stable release of iOS 18, as we’ll show you here.