Currently, Apple is signing up to iOS 10.3 for iPhone 7 and older. If you would like, please downgrade as quick as possible since it is unsure when Apple will stop signing them!
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PSA! Up to iOS 10.3 Re-Signing!
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I'm personally not going to bother. It's not the latest iOS 10 release anyways. It's only 10.3, while latest is 10.3.3. I'm happy on iOS 11.2.5 beta so for me there's no point in downgrading.
I downgraded my iPad 5 to iOS 10, and working great. Downgraded my 5S to iOS 7 and getting an activation error.
Yea that's the issue people reporting activation issue. Currently I am downloading 10.3 for 7, but I am sure that will get activation error
Yeah, looks like it. However they're still signing 6.1.3 for the 4S and iPad 2 according to ipsw.me.
Interestingly, though, they're now signing both 11.2.0 and 11.2.1 as well as 11.2.2 for all iOS 11 devices. Not sure why anyone would want to downgrade from 11.2.2 to 11.2.0, but it's currently possible.
Cue the "Apple destroyed my phone / my life because they let me downgrade to an insecure version of iOS" in 3...2...1...
Yep. Haven't done this a whole lot since way back in the iPhone 3G days, but here's how I recall the procedure:
Put your phone into DFU mode - this is done by plugging the phone into your computer while still powered on, then holding down Home+Power for about ten seconds until the screen goes black and then keep holding down the Home button until you get a message that says something like "iTunes has detected a device in recovery mode, blah blah blah". Then click Restore while holding Alt if you're on a mac or Shift if you're on windows, browse to the location of your ipsw file and go. Afterwards, use RecBoot or TinyUmbrella to exit recovery mode when you get error 1015.
[doublepost=1515681746][/doublepost]Slightly off topic: this may be just crazy conspiracy-esque thinking on my behalf -- but ever since the so called "battery/throttling/planned obsolescence/blahblah scandal" unveiled, I've thought of the possibility that Apple might allow users to downgrade devices to the firmware that they originally shipped with in order to squash the planned obsolescence bs. For instance, this would mean that they would allow me to downgrade my iPad 2 to 4.3 (not that I ever would use 4.3 longterm - I like using third-party apps, but it sure would be cool for a while!) and my iPhone 5S could be downgraded to 10.1. Perhaps they intentionally turned on TSS signing for older firmware versions in order to see how many users would actually bother downgrading their devices to older firmwares, which would in turn allow Apple to collect diagnostic data from the devices once they are running the older iOS version.
This signing bonanza was probably just the result of human error somewhere on the Apple campus -- but it's interesting how it managed to happen right in the middle of class action lawsuits and conspiracy theories about planned obsolescence, especially seeing as they've never screwed up the TSS signing like this before as far as I can recall from my almost ten years of using iOS.
[doublepost=1515682302][/doublepost]It's also worth noting that they haven't yet bothered to stop signing 6.1.3 for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
Downgrading these devices to 6.1.3 has been possible for a couple years now through the use of OdysseusOTA but proper SHSH signing sure makes the process easier for those of you who would like to downgrade an A5 device but can't be bothered with terminal commands, custom ipsw files etc.
This is getting interesting. They just started signing all versions of iOS 11 for the 5s according to this page: https://api.ineal.me/tss/status
So, in short, they went from signing every single firmware ever made to only signing the 11.2.x family, and now the entire 11.x.x family is signed for that device. The engineer in charge of the SHSH signing servers must be working like his ass is on fire to fix this right now
[doublepost=1515686624][/doublepost]I'm actually gonna keep track on the signing status for the next couple of hours. Who knows, they might mess up and re-start signing 10.x - I'd go back to that any time, iOS 11 has been awful in terms of the strange UI changes they made (no app names in the dock, weird headers in the stock apps etc) as well as the battery hit almost every device on earth seems to have taken after the ios 11 update
So, in short, they went from signing every single firmware ever made to only signing the 11.2.x family, and now the entire 11.x.x family is signed for that device. The engineer in charge of the SHSH signing servers must be working like his ass is on fire to fix this right now
[doublepost=1515686624][/doublepost]I'm actually gonna keep track on the signing status for the next couple of hours. Who knows, they might mess up and re-start signing 10.x - I'd go back to that any time, iOS 11 has been awful in terms of the strange UI changes they made (no app names in the dock, weird headers in the stock apps etc) as well as the battery hit almost every device on earth seems to have taken after the ios 11 update
Those who downgrade do not care for security. I hope those of you will " get the bill" soon.
This. Stop worrying about "slowness" and start worrying about your personal information being stolen.
This is the reason I use Apple devices! Ok, Windows-PC and Laptop.
If those stupid ...... use Apple Pay