Saturday, September 21, 2013

Apple no longer signing iOS 6.1.3/4

ios 7

Bad news this evening for anyone hoping to downgrade from iOS 7 to a lower firmware. It appears that Apple is no longer signing iOS 6.1.3 and 6.1.4 for a majority of its devices, effectively terminating their ability to downgrade .

This is significant for a few reasons. For one, folks who upgraded to iOS 7 and don’t like the redesigned UI are now essentially stuck with it for the foreseeable future. And more importantly, word is a 6.1.3/4 jailbreak is coming…

For those who missed it earlier this week, a video surfaced online showing off a working untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.4. Sure it’s primitive, and a bit rough around the edges, but it’s still extremely promising.

While there’s no ETA on a public release for his project, winocm [1] does seem to be quite a bit further along than the evad3rs are on an iOS 7 jailbreak. The last we heard, pod2g and team were making progress , but still in very early stages.

There’s good news for folks with older devices though. While Apple has stopped signing previous firmware for a majority of iOS products, at the time of writing, it was still doing so for models of the iPad 2/mini, and then of course the iPod touch 4 and iPhone 3GS.

ios 613 signvia ICJ [2]  

So if you’re on one of these particular devices, you can still try downgrading to iOS 6.1.3 firmware through iTunes. If you need help, you can find our tutorial here . For everyone else, though, we’ll see you at the iOS 7 jailbreak release party.


Links
  1. ^ winocm (twitter.com)
  2. ^ ICJ (www.icj.me)

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