{"id":20137,"date":"2018-01-11T13:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20137"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T19:53:48","slug":"running-old-ios-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/running-old-ios-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Old iOS Versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appletoolbox.com\/2018\/01\/apple-allowing-ios-downgrades-older-iphone-ipads\/\">Apple Toolbox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appletoolbox.com\/2018\/01\/apple-allowing-ios-downgrades-older-iphone-ipads\/\">\n<p>We were surprised to find out today that Apple is suddenly allowing users to downgrade their operating systems. If you have an older iPhone or an older iPad and were always a big fan of the older iOS and wished you had never upgraded your device, this may be your window of opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this was a mistake at Apple. The window of opportunity only lasted a few hours. They have stopped signing older iOS versions now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/951365443666829312\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/951365443666829312\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s a little frustrating that enabling the installation of older iOSes is a switch that Apple can [accidentally] flick at will, yet developers asked for firmware downgrades for years to set up test devices &#x1F937; (I know, testing is an alien concept to current Apple&#8230; &#x1F643;)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CorelliumHQ\/status\/951277835095871489\">Corellium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CorelliumHQ\/status\/951277835095871489\">\n<p>Our Corellium Hypervisor for ARM enables us to run virtual iPhones in the cloud with game-changing features like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run any version of iOS<\/li>\n<li>On demand thread list &amp; kernel backtrace<\/li>\n<li>Optional jailbreak for any version<\/li>\n<li>Web-based debugging<\/li>\n<li>And much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Did they get a special license from Apple to do this?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Toolbox: We were surprised to find out today that Apple is suddenly allowing users to downgrade their operating systems. If you have an older iPhone or an older iPad and were always a big fan of the older iOS and wished you had never upgraded your device, this may be your window of opportunity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-30T19:53:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"26316e26-5dfc-4e53-a029-2b37ab9abccd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-30T19:53:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJjFuJl38TlOgKSs3q5q8zQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35,1909,75,31,1472,268,96],"class_list":["post-20137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cloud","tag-corellium","tag-developertool","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-testing","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20138,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions\/20138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}