Impatient? You Can Clean Install iOS 7 GM Right Now
Though you should be patient and wait a week for the official release of iOS 7 on the 18th, you technically don’t have to. For the incredibly impatient who don’t mind a few inconveniences, you can get a head start and update a compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to the iOS 7 GM build right now. Of course there’s a catch: you’ll have to download the iOS 7 GM build IPSW from third parties, you have to do a clean install (not an update), and you won’t be able to sync the upgraded iOS 7 device to a computer afterwards – that means no backups, music transfers, restoring from a backup through iTunes, etc – and those inconveniences will remain until the public build of iTunes 11.1 comes out. If for some reason that sounds good to you, then Lifehacker offers up the solution with plenty of links to the GM build to get you on your way, and beyond that, it’s like any other clean installation of iOS.
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