The terminology may be kinda muddled here. I always thought that DOWN shifting was to approach FIRST gear, and the size of gears you'll traverse will get larger, but its still called downshifting and not upshifting. (to me, for like 50 years)

Upshifting is going to a higher gear and is what you do when you speed up.

"To shift to a lower gear: larger cog on the rear, smaller chainring on the front"
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