Important Tips About Restoring Jailbroken iPhone

Jail-breaking is removing Apple's restriction on iOS device. And by doing so, you can download apps and some features that are not allowed by Apple. However, jail-breaking your iPhone also brings you some problems, such as iPhone will become more unstable, cannot get repair service from Apple and lose all the data of iPhone. As a result, some people want to reset their jailbroken iPhone, even without losing the jailbreak features. Once you make the decision, you should know what to do before restoring jailbroken iPhone. The article provides you ways to restore jailbroken iPhone with or without losing jailbroken features. What is more, you can also learn more details about methods to fix iOS error for jailbroken iPhones. Learn more details about the solutions from the article now.

• Part 1: What to do before restoring jailbroken iPhone
• Part 2: How to restore jailbroken iPhone
• Part 3: Fix iOS errors for jailbroken iPhone

Part 1. What to do before restoring jailbroken iPhone

In order to make sure you do not turn jailbroken iPhone into a brick. There are some important points that you should do before restoring jailbroken iPhone. Just learn more details about the points as below.

• 1. Be sure that you have the latest iTunes on your computer, if not, you need to install the latest version of iTunes to your computer.
• 2. It is important to back up your important data before restoring jailbroken iPhone, which will erase all your data, so that you can recover your data after restoring.
• 3. You have to know that the process of restoring jailbroken iPhone will last a long time, so if you decide to restore iPhone, make sure you have enough time.
• 4. Check if you have turn on "Find My iPhone", if so, you should turn it off by going to "Settings" > "iCloud" > "Find My iPhone" and then click on "Turn Off".

Part 2. How to restore jailbroken iPhone

Solution 1. Restore jailbroken iPhone to loose jailbroken features

You can start restoring your jailbroken iPhone after you prepare everything well. First of all the article offers you the solution to restore jailbroken iPhone to loose jailbroken features. And in this way, make sure you use the latest iTunes. Let's see the specific steps of this solution.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer by a trustworthy USB, and iTunes will appear automatically on your computer.

Step 2. Choose your iPhone on the top of the interface of iTunes and go to "Summary". Then click on the "Restore iPhone" button.

Step 3. There will be a prompt massage showed up, and then click on the "Restore" button. After the jailbroken iPhone is restored, it will restart automatically.

Step 4. When you see the "Hello" screen popping up, follow the instructions on the screen to set up your new iPhone. You can also recover your data from your backup now.

Solution 2. Restore jailbroken iPhone without losing jailbroken features

If you don't want to lose jailbroken features when you restore your iPhone, you should use 3rd-party software like Semi-Restore to restore jailbroken iPhone. The article will show you the detailed process about how to restore your jailbroken iPhone without losing jailbroken features by the program of Semi-Restore.

Step 1. First of all, download Semi-Restore program to your computer and extract the .ZIP folder and then two files will be extracted from it.

Step 2. There will be two different files. One is a .DLL file and the other is an .EXE file. Choose the .EXE file to operate the Semi-Restore program on your computer.

Step 3. When you launch the program, go to "message" and choose "box" option, and then click on the "OK" button to continue the process.

Step 4. Plug your jailbroken iPhone to your computer by a trustworthy USB and click on the "SemiRestore" button and your iPhone will reboot later.

Step 5. When the progress of restoring jailbroken iPhone is done, click the "Close" button to exit the program. And then turn on and set up your iPhone now.

Part 3. Fix iOS errors

As we have said that your iPhone will become unstable after jail-breaking, so when you restore jailbroken iPhone, there may be some errors. If you want to resolve these problems and make your iPhone to a normal condition, you need to use professional software called iOS System Recovery. Here are the specific instructions about how to fix iOS errors by iOS System Recovery.

Step 1. Free download iOS System Recovery and install it to your computer. Open this program and connect your iPhone to your computer by a trustworthy USB.

Step 2. Go to "More tools" on the left corner and click on "iPhone System Recovery". After entering the "iPhone System Recovery" window, press the "Start" button to start fixing errors when you restore jailbroken iPhone.

Step 3. Click on the button of "Question" and follow the instructions to put iPhone into Recovery or DFU mode. Select an iPhone model and click "Download" to download the repaired device plug-in.

Step 4. Wait a few minutes for downloading the repaired plug-in which will fix your iPhone errors automatically. Then your phone will back to a normal condition.

You may also want to know: How to wiew iCloud backup.

Conclusion

If you just need to restore an iPhone, it should be quite easy. But restore a jailbroken iPhone might be not that easy. Some people want to restore jailbroken iPhone to factory settings to restore the security features and warranty while others want to restore their devices without losing jailbroken features. If you are one of them and don't know the appropriate way to do it, as you can see above, this article has offered you the information about what to do beforehand. Here are the two different solutions to restore jailbroken iPhone, which you can decide whether to remain the features of jailbroken. If there is any error message, you can also use iOS System Recovery to fix iOS errors with ease. Hope you can successfully restore your jailbroken iPhone under the help of this article.