How do you stop automatic iOS updates?

Is there a way to stop auto iOS updates?

barbaraok wrote:
So every time I would charge, I'd have to turn off WiFi to prevent it from trying to upload?   Or in other words, Apple just assumes that we all have high speed WiFi available and uploading is no big deal?   What if we want to wait before installing a new operating system to make sure there isn't a problem.
Turning off WiFi is not onerous. One swipe up to reveal Control Center, and one tap. Many people routinely turn off WiFi because they mistakenly think that it saves battery life.
Yes, Apple DOES assume that if you have WiFi it is free and unlimited; not that the latest update (30 MB) would have made much of a dent in a data plan.
As to waiting, every major update has been tested for months by tens of thousands of users. There has been only one update that had a problem (2.1), and that was 6 years ago. It was not a "fatal" problem in that phones still worked, but consumed battery faster than normal. A followup patch 2 weeks later fixed it. While a few people have problems after installing an update, knowing that provides no useful information to those who have not updated yet, because these cases are isolated and unrelated to the quality of the update itself.

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