{"id":9919,"date":"2014-11-18T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2014-11-18T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T09:41:10","slug":"downgrade-ios-8-1-1-ios-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/downgrade-ios-8-1-1-ios-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Downgrade From iOS 8.1.1 to iOS 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9921\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flexispy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/downgrade-ios-8-1-1.png?resize=755%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"downgrade-ios-8-1-1\" width=\"755\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the iPhone you want to monitor has been upgraded to iOS 8.1.1 then you&#8217;ll need to downgrade back to 8.1 so that you can jailbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Right now there is good news as Apple appears to be signing the iOS 8.1 firmware files (for now) which means that if you want to downgrade, you&#8217;ll need to do it now.<\/p>\n<p>Things to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;re only going to be able to downgrade if Apple is signing the iOS 8.1 firmware file.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s very important that you make a backup of your device to iCloud or using iTunes incase something goes wrong.<\/li>\n<li>Apple doesn&#8217;t recommend that you downgrade your iOS device, so follow this guide at your own risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the respective iOS 8.1 firmware file for your device via the links below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphonehacks.com\/download-iphone-ios-firmware\">iOS firmware file for iPhone<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphonehacks.com\/download-ipad-ios-firmware\">iOS firmware file for iPad<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iphonehacks.com\/download-ipod-touch-ios-firmware\">iOS firmware file for iPod touch<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Connect the iOS 8.1.1 device to your computer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Open iTunes and select the device from the corner on the top right, to the left of the iTunes Store button.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Press and hold the Alt\/Option key on the Mac or the Shift Key in Windows and click on the Check for Update option, instead of restoring.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The team at iphonehacks.com were able to successfully downgrade from iOS 8.1.1 to iOS 8.1 using this step, but if you&#8217;re wanting to go by the book then it&#8217;s reccomended that you use the Restore method, -it will be more time consuming-<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: If you use the Restore method, then it will wipe the data from your device so make sure you have that backup we discussed before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Downgrade iOS 8.1.1 using iTunes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9922\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flexispy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/downgrade-ios-8-1-1-itunes.jpg?resize=827%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"downgrade-ios-8-1-1-itunes\" width=\"827\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Select the ipsw file you&#8217;ve downloaded from before<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>iTunes will give you a notice that it&#8217;s going to update your iOS device to iOS 8.1 and then the update will be verified with apple.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9923\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flexispy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ios-8-1-update-itunes.jpg?resize=510%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ios-8-1-update-itunes\" width=\"510\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update to iOS 8.1 using iTunes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Click on Update.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>If everything works properly, iTunes will then downgrade your iOS device to iOS 8.1.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>After a successful downgrade, the iOS device will restart. A notification saying \u201cSlide to upgrade\u201d should then appear. Enter the passcode, and then wait for the downgrade process to complete. You may be prompted to activate your device.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Done! You should now be successfully downgraded to iOS 8.1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you encountered any errors while following this guide, or if you were succesful!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the iPhone you want to monitor has been upgraded to  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone-tips-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flexispy.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}