If you’re currently jailbroken, save blobs!

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  • futurerestore

    Discontinued A hacked up idevicerestore wrapper, which allows specifying SEP and Baseband for restoring [Moved to: https://github.com/m1stadev/futurerestore] (by marijuanARM)

    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.

  • cicuta_virosa

    Modernpwner, the team that found the iOS 14.3 and below exploits for jailbreaks (unc0ver and Taurine) has hinted at a possible bypass that could lead to a jailbreak for 14.5 (PAC bypass section of https://github.com/ModernPwner/cicuta_virosa). You could theoretically update to either one of these versions right now since they’re being signed, but given the time it takes for jailbreaks to become a thing, these versions might not be signed by Apple if or when a full jailbreak is released for them. You’d have to play the waiting game for a good while if you update now, and none of these exploits are guaranteed to be stable enough for a full fledged jailbreak anyways. That’s why blob saving is so powerful!

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • FutureRestore-GUI

    A modern GUI for FutureRestore, with added features to make the process easier.

    For both, you can save blobs for the version you’re on using APTickets, but I haven’t spent the time looking at that because there’s no reason to use them unless you’re stuck in recovery mode. If you’re at that point, you’ll probably be better off trying to use the futurerestore GUI by CoocooFroggy and first trying to exit recovery mode. If that doesn’t work, try the blob, but I can’t guarantee it’ll work. (https://github.com/CoocooFroggy/FutureRestore-GUI)

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