If you need to restore your iPhone but don’t want to lose your iOS 8.4 jailbreak in the process, here’s how to restore your iPhone without losing your iOS 8.4 jailbreak.
Whether you want to start with a clean slate or have really ruined your iPhone by installing a weird Cydia tweak, you can restore your iPhone to factory settings while keeping your iOS 8.4 jailbreak intact.
While doing this is perhaps less important than with the iOS 8.1.2 jailbreak, you may not want to re-jailbreak your device after restoring it, and it makes perfect sense.
Apple does this in a way that allows you to update to the latest version when you restore your iPhone, so when iOS 8.1.2 is the latest version of iOS that can be jailbroken, restoring your iPhone means you need to update to iOS 8.2 or iOS. At that time it’s 8.3, so you lose your jailbreak and you can never go back until a new jailbreak is released.
Fortunately, this is not a problem today, as the latest version of iOS is jailbreakable. So you don’t have to worry about losing your jailbreak when you restore, but it’s still a convenience thing and if you want or need to restore your iPhone, it’s best to keep your jailbreak intact so you don’t have it. to redo the whole process.
Without further ado, here’s how to restore your iPhone without losing your iOS 8.4 jailbreak.
before you start
Before you start restoring your iPhone, you may be wondering why you can’t go into settings and select it. Normally this is how you would do it if you wanted to start from scratch.
However, doing this on a jailbroken iPhone will cause a boot loop and you’ll have to restart your iPhone, which will only take you back to where you started, so you won’t be able to use this option. Instead, you have to restore using iTunes, but even then, if you want to keep your jailbreak intact, you’ll need to use proprietary software.
here Half Restore It works. It also works quite uniquely because you don’t need to download anything to your iPhone, instead it runs on your computer.
Before you start restoring your iPhone, you’ll want to back up your iPhone. We have a handy guide on how to do this. You will also need to install OpenSSH, which can be found in Cydia and installed like a regular tweak.
Restore Your iPhone Without Losing Your Jailbreak
To restore your iPhone and keep your iOS 8.4 jailbreak intact, all you need to do is download Semi-Restore to your computer (currently only works with Windows and Linux) and run it while your iPhone is plugged in. Supports up to iOS 8.1.2, it will run smoothly on iOS 8.4 devices.
Once Semi-Restore is downloaded to your computer, extract the .ZIP folder and the two files will be extracted. One is a .DLL file and the other is an .EXE file. Double-click the .EXE file to open the Semi-Restore program. With your iPhone plugged in, click to begin the process of restoring your iPhone while keeping the jailbreak intact.
Let Semi-Restore do its thing and then your iPhone will reboot and restore to factory settings. Grab your iPhone and go through the iOS Setup Assistant to go to the home screen. From there, you should see a newly restored iPhone, but the jailbreak will still be there and the Cydia icon will still be on the home screen.
