My iPhone 5s ran great until the latest update. Now it suddenly crawls like a cheap android. How can I roll back the update, uninstall the update, or just factory reset to iOS 9?
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iPhone 5 or earlier Uninstall or roll back iOS update
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Reset it to factory defaults. I don't think there is a way to roll back iOS updates.
I’ve reset it twice 😞 both times everything was gone and I set it all up but in settings it still shows iOS 12.4.6
While you think you want your 5S to run on iOS 9, (which no longer is possible- apple won't let you do it) if somehow it could be done, once you booted up into iOS 9, you'd soon realize that very little would currently run in it.
Mosh apps no longer are available for iOS 9 and 50% of the Internet doesn't render correctly if it all using any iOS 9 browser.
The day's of iOS 9 are rapidly coming to an end. I'd know, I'm typing this on an iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 9.
Mosh apps no longer are available for iOS 9 and 50% of the Internet doesn't render correctly if it all using any iOS 9 browser.
The day's of iOS 9 are rapidly coming to an end. I'd know, I'm typing this on an iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 9.
Yes. There is a jailbreak section in this forum. You can also search “iPhone 5s jailbreak” using google.
A few things…
1. Tweakbox is not a jailbreak. I Googled it and it seems to be a third party app store. Anything it's going to offer you there that has a tag of 'jailbreak' on it is going to be fake.
2. Scammers know that people such as yourself are desperate - either for a jaillbreak to do something you cannot ordinarily do, or to downgrade. They count on your ignorance about jailbreaking and shovel out a lot of fake jailbreaks and garbage. You don't know what's real or not because you've never been involved in this world.
3. It's not that easy. Every version of iOS is digitally signed. When Apple releases a new version of iOS they revoke the signing of the previous version. This is why you cannot downgrade. Again, scammers take advantage of that.
4. There is a way to downgrade. It involves SHSH blobs and already being jailbroken. If you have no idea what SHSH blobs are then you don't have them. Even if you got your iPhone jailbroken you couldn't downgrade. BTW, for your info, blobs are pieces of code that identify your phone to Apple in such a way that it fools their servers into allowing a downgrade to proceed. But you need to save these for every version of iOS you've been on when you are actually on that version of iOS - if you want to rollback to that version. Again, if this is new info to you - you do not have them.
5. If you REALLY still want to jailbreak, then see the JB matrix here: https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/wiki/escapeplan/guides/jailbreakcharts The Jailbreak subreddit at Reddit, link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/new/ is really the only place you want to get your JB info from. The JB forum on MacRumors is still good and relevant but it's not really active that much anymore. News on the jailbreak subreddit breaks first.
So to sum up. Forget about downgrading. You're stuck.
PS. The reason you cannot simply 'factory restore' to the old version of iOS is because when you update, the system partition is also updated. When you restore, your iPhone draws the files it needs from the system partition. Since they've been updated you end up restoring to the version of iOS you're currently on. If you do it via iTunes, iTunes forces an upgrade (if there is one at the time).
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I've got a 6s+ running 9.0.2. It's been jailbroken since October 2015 and is still going strong.
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