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Goodnotes for School, Business & Enterprise - How to downgrade from Goodnotes 6 to GoodNotes 5 via AppConfig

As an IT Administrator of a school or business, you may have upgraded to Goodnotes 6 and wondered how you can look to downgrade your existing License Key and revert back to GoodNotes 5. In short, this can be done by simply altering your MDM deployment.

Downgrading from Goodnotes 6 to GoodNotes 5 in your business or school is entirely your choice, and the IT Administrator of the respective can organisation can do this themselves by changing the AppConfig deployment listed in our MDM Installation Guide.

How to downgrade:

To reinstate usage of GoodNotes 5, all you would need to do is remove the new managed configuration data you implemented to upgrade to Goodnotes 6. For clarity, see the example below from our installation guide on how to upgrade to Goodnotes 6:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>ManagedAppConfigurationVersion</key>
    <string>1</string>
    <key>LicenseKey</key>
    <string>AAAAAA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-DDDDDD-123456-V3</string>
    <key>Goodnotes6Upgrade</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

In order to downgrade, simply remove the Goodnotes 6 key and true value:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>ManagedAppConfigurationVersion</key>
    <string>1</string>
    <key>LicenseKey</key>
    <string>AAAAAA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-DDDDDD-123456-V3</string>
</dict>
</plist>

As you can see, the coloured text highlights where you would need to configure the deployment. The blue coloured text indicates your existing License Key and configuration, with the red coloured text highlighting the previous additions that configure the upgrade to Goodnotes 6.

Once the data is saved, your app will be deployed as GoodNotes 5 to your end-users.

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