hacking a Beta backup to restore to iOS7?

[ben824]

Ok so I thought I remembered reading a while back where someone hacked a Beta backup to use to restore to the latest public version of iOS. Something like changing the identifier or something? Anyone remember this?

 

[C DM]

Something from https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1684219/ might be of some help (possibly also https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1611358/, although that's going about it somewhat differently).

 

[Paddle1]

I don't think this works on iOS 8.

 

[johnparjr]

There's nothing to hack to go back to iOS 7 and use a backup unless your trying to keep the is data but why

 

[C DM]

I don't think this works on iOS 8.

People haven't been able to do it?

 

[chekz0414]

People haven't been able to do it?

I tried to hack the .plist and iTunes told me the backup was corrupt. After I had restored to iOS 7. However the other method worked as I did an opt. Click update to 7.1.2 from 8.0 beta 2. I was kind of surprised it had worked

 

[BittenApple]

So this does not work in iOS 8?

 

[saudor]

There is a way. Using ibackupbot and selectively pulling data off and changing a few plists. I've done it before.

By this I mean restoring an ios8 backup on an ios7 device

 

[ipooed]

Is there a way to go back to iOS 7?

 

[nordique]

Is there a way to go back to iOS 7?

I don't think so

If there was a way to do it, it would be relatively well known about on the net and people would have tried to do it