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Got this on my iPad, thought "ohh shit, I should back up my phone right now, it's next..."

I backed it up and within 20 minutes it had been disabled.

Interestingly, it put it in a state in which it was unable to ring for incoming calls.

I wish Apple would not report that your iOS version is "up to date" in iTunes if you are running a time-bombed beta build. Even if they don't want to support a direct upgrade path from beta to GM, they could indicate in their software that your software is not up to date.

Not everyone can afford dedicated dev devices--even though that is in their terms of use.

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Bear in mind that Apple then released the GM version of iOS 7. For those who actually read and comprehend the release notes installed the iOS 7 GM over the beta ones.

This is one of many reasons why people who have no business installing beta software should NEVER install beta software on their devices.

This really screwed me over this time. My developer account expired a few weeks ago and I got worried because I still had the beta installed. I tried upgrading via iTunes, but it said I was up to date, and I assumed that meant that the phone had updated itself to the release version over the air automatically or that I'd forgotten that I already updated manually. And now that phone is bricked until I get back to my computer tomorrow.

Not to come off as uncaring, but I think you screwed yourself over if you installed the iOS 7 beta and didn't read the release notes.

iOS betas have always expired, going back years, and this has always been documented in the release notes. It's also made clear in the release notes that you can't upgrade via iTunes to the public release from a beta - you have to manually download the IPSW and update it yourself.

I was going to add a line at the end of my post saying that this was all, of course, my fault, but figured it went without saying. Lesson learned.

I too was 'told' I was up-to-date, and lost a ton of parade pictures of the family from this morning. Badly done, Apple. Badly done.

You knew you were running iOS 7 beta and you failed to follow up with the developer beta program.

You didn't have to lose those photos. You can "update" to a particular IPSW in iTunes [1].

So just download a "production" iOS 7 IPSW and "update" to it.

That's what I did to update when the iOS 7 GM came out, and I've used it in the past when I unintentionally let an iOS 6 beta expire.

[1] http://www.jailbreaksquad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Bro...

Apple was also nice enough to allow the device to sync in the background while the requires authorization screen is up.

It's not Apple's fault that you didn't understand what you were doing when you installed beta software onto a device with content of sentimental value.

I got this on my iPad this morning (it's 9am UK time) and, since I was drinking last night, I thought I must have tried to do a restore while I was drunk. Very glad when I discovered other beta testers had the same issue.

A quick jump onto developer.apple.com to download the latest IPSW and my iPad is working again.

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