Updated my IPad Mini 2 this morning from iOS 8 to the current 10. Don’t like it and want to go back. My iPad is backed up on the Mac at home. I did the update wirelesly and haven’t connected to the Mac since I did the update.
Am I right in thinking that if i simply restore from the back up it will automatically update to the new OS? And if so is there a way round this?

The backup is your content not the iOS it’s possible to do a roll back but it’s a bit fiddly.

Without sounding like a nob, your time will be better spent learning to love iOS10.

1. You can’t go back (easily).
2. Over time apps will break.
3. You will miss security updates.

As above really. If any of your apps have updated since the update to iOS 10, (unless you have a copy on itunes of the old version) then they most likely won’t work if you were to actually manage to roll it back to iOS 8

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/09/downgrade-iphone-ipad-ios-10-ios-9-3-5.html but pick a ios8 firmware to download instead.

But yes, fiddly and you’re better off living with ios10 IMO.

Thanks for the advice chaps. I’ll give it a couple of days to see if I can cope with it. Everything seems a bit slow though. And I hate the fact that I now have to use the home button to open it…

The prob is it’s the future. So if you buy a new iPad/iPhone it’ll be the same.

iOS 11 is just round the corner as well.

if slow is the issue, do not update to 11 when it asks. As for going back see comments above.

11 appears to be at least as quick as 10 to me.

As an update, I kept 10 on the iPad and as I used it it seemed a lot of the problems vanished, speed is back to good and all the little freezes and glitches have died down. Almost like the apps had to run a bit to make themselves work with the new OS.
Haven’t done the app updates yet a I want to check I won’t be losing any beloved features. The only real pain now is having to use the home button to turn it on, bound to shorten the life of it to a degree.

Can’t you press the power button?

Sorry a bad explanation by me.
You need to use the home button to unlock the screen.

Eddie, I think there’s a setting to revert to the old behaviour of the home button. Go have a look

Bother. I don’t have a touch ID device. I can bodge it with accessibilty controls but have a tiny menuette on the screen at all times.