Apple Signing Bug Resulted In Downgrades From 6.1.3 To Jailbreak 6.0.X

Today, in a rather peculiar turn of events, Apple began re-signing iOS 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 for supported iOS devices, including the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4,iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 5, iPad 4, iPad 3, iPad 2, iPad mini and the iPod touch 4^thgeneration. This came as incredible news, especially for iDevice owners who mistakenly upgraded to either iOS 6.1.3 or 6.1.4 (in the case of the iPhone 5). Users who were stuck on 6.1.3 without a jailbreak were glad to know that they could downgrade for a brief period of time to a firmware that’s fully supported by the evasi0n Untethered jailbreak.

Through somewhat of a fluke miracle, Apple was signing 6.0, 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 earlier this afternoon for devices that attempted to restore to any of the threefirmwares – for those of you who missed your opportunity though, you’reregrettably stuck on iOS 6.1.3 or 6.1.4 until a new jailbreak utility is created, unless this signing error occurs again.

When attempting to downgrade from 6.1.3 to a lower firmware that can be jailbroken evasi0n users simply had to download the corresponding 6.0, 6.0.1 or 6.0.2 IPSW, enter DFU mode, hold down either shift on Windows or option on OS X and left click the restore button inside iTunes. Once the firmware selection window popped up, it was as easy as selecting the firmware that was previouslysaved.

Unfortunately, while it’s not possible to take advantage of this error any longer, and although something like this has never happened before in Apple history, there’s always the chance that history will repeat itself.

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