Apple Stops Signing iOS 8.3, Downgrades and Restores No Longer Possible

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Posted July 7, 2015 at 5:29pm by iClarified

Apple has stopped signing iOS 8.3, making restores and downgrades to the firmware no longer possible.

If you want to stay on iOS 8.3 take care that you do not accidentally update to iOS 8.4 because you won't be able to get back to iOS 8.3. However, since there is a jailbreak of iOS 8.4 you aren't at risk of losing your jailbreak after an update.

Also, you may want to save the SHSH Blobs off your device if you haven't already.

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Apple Stops Signing iOS 8.3, Downgrades and Restores No Longer Possible

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wsq - July 10, 2015 at 2:52pm

Apple just being an Apple, they keep stop signing FW for no good reasons.

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gamerscul9870 - July 10, 2015 at 3:47pm

Apple being Apple looking for jb problems that means patching the jailbreaks before a bad case happens. They know people love jb

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hey - July 8, 2015 at 5:55am

Guys who cares, you have another 2 months till ios 9..

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gamerscul9870 - July 7, 2015 at 7:49pm

Yyyeeeeesssssss. This is my two cents of making my day.

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LKai - July 7, 2015 at 6:45pm

Mine 5s was running on 8.4 JB and the battery life was sucks. So i downgraded to 8.3 JB and now i'm very happy with the battery life. I was hoping 8.3 still open until iOS 9 release.

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gamerscul9870 - July 7, 2015 at 6:24pm

I happen to like 8.4 just fine. Nothing wrong with not downgrading anymore.

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stevenlacross - July 7, 2015 at 5:38pm

My 8.4 is working fine, maybe your battery just sucks

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xDreaminq - July 7, 2015 at 5:35pm

dumb 8.4 is still new and has battery problems and it has problems. we want 8.3 what's with that

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