Apple Stops Signing iOS 8.1, Downgrades No Longer Possible

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Posted December 2, 2014 at 12:30am by iClarified

Apple has stopped signing iOS 8.1 meaning that it is no longer possible to downgrade or restore to the firmware.

Normally, we would warn users not to accidentally update to the current firmware version, but thanks to a surprising release, we already have a jailbreak of iOS 8.1.1.

TaiG has released a jailbreak utility for iOS 8.1.1 that works on Windows. We hope to see a Mac OS X version soon; however, since a beta of iOS 8.2 has already been seeded, we suggest you update to iOS 8.1.1 and jailbreak as soon as possible.

You can find instructions on how to jailbreak your device using the iClarified Jailbreak Wizard.

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Apple Stops Signing iOS 8.1, Downgrades No Longer Possible

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stevenlacross - December 5, 2014 at 7:31pm

You do know that when you update the phone to a higher software, they've added more things and made it a bigger firmware which makes the phone run slower. so he's right to stay on ios 7, cause ios 8 is even slower than 7, 5 was blazing fast on 4S and 6 was pretty good as well.

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Bill Gates - December 2, 2014 at 1:01am

Weird I just downgraded my iPhone 6 Plus

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gamerscul9870 - December 2, 2014 at 1:06am

Lucky you but now you see the truth with iphone after being picky with cortana results against siri. For shame.

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