futurerestore VS futurerestore

At least in recent weeks for those on Windows, --latest-sep/baseband were apparently "broken for most devices" according to the developer and the developer recommended specifying the actual sep/baseband files.

Some tips that may or may not be useful for you: 1) (very very very important!!) ensure you are using the CORRECT futureRestore file when restoring to 14.3. This will save you sooo meany headaches and frustration. (Windows users: https://github.com/opa334/futurerestore/releases/latest )

In an earlier year I had heard that it was safer to specify them. Additionally, in recent weeks, depending on your platform, --latest-sep/baseband was broken: https://github.com/opa334/futurerestore/releases/

I was in pretty much the same boat. You can download the windows version of future restore here: https://github.com/opa334/futurerestore/releases

Gather all necessary files in a folder on the Desktop. Files you will need include: futurerestore[dot]exe, a valid 14.3 blob, the specific iOS 14.3 ipsw for your device model, and the specific iOS 14.4 ipsw for your device model

Blobs are a .shsh2 file that is used to submit a request to Apple to restore/update to an iOS or iPadOS version. It’s basically Apple’s signature for iTunes or idevicerestore (a library for restoring Apple devices) to go ahead and install an update to your device. Normally this is just a thing that happens when your device is in recovery mode. This process can be faked and taken over, however. A computer program called futurerestore (https://github.com/marijuanARM/futurerestore) can use those .shsh2 blobs to fake that in ways that I can’t personally explain, but it does. You can also save these blobs if you’re a jailbroken user, which makes it possible to restore or upgrade to certain iOS/iPadOS versions after Apple has stopped giving those signatures itself. For example, if you have saved blobs for iOS 14.3 and you’re on iOS 13.7, you can update or restore to 14.3 today, even though the versions that are signed at the moment are iOS 14.4.2 and 14.5.

That was the old version of future restore. Use https://github.com/marijuanARM/futurerestore and if you want a GUI use https://github.com/CoocooFroggy/FutureRestore-GUI

Your iPhone needs blobs to restore/update/boot(?). Apple only gives (signs) blobs for the firmwares they want you to be on (the latest versions). When you save a blob, you can use a 3rd party program, like FutureRestore, to use them blobs as opposed to having apple give you the blobs, they are saved locally, instead of being generated by apple's TSS server.

Look here https://github.com/marijuanARM/futurerestore/releases

There isn’t any problem using latest sep and baseband on futurerestore v194. I, and many others on r/jb discord have used it and it’s restored just fine

that's the irecovery issue, see https://github.com/marijuanARM/futurerestore#restoring-on-windows-10

Okay, I was using marijuanARM's version from this, but I'll using opa334's build. Thanks again!