Several years ago, Saurik released an un-jailbreaking tool known asCydia Eraserso that jailbreakers could revert their pwned devices to a stock state any time they wished. But it hasn’t received any updates for some of the latestjailbreakablefirmware versions, leaving much of the community in a state of confusion.
Fortunately, the Electra Team plans to change that. Team memberPwn20wndannounced on Monday the completion of an un-jailbreaking tool dubbed ‘SemiRestore11,’ which will roll back any jailbreak performed withElectra1131.
To quell some confusion, pwn20wnd initiallyreferredto this tool ‘Rollectra,’ but later re-named it after acquiring control of CoolStar’s SemiRestore project.
SemiRestore11 takes advantage ofAPFSsnapshots and the mobile_obliterator to take care of business, and it can allegedly complete this process in less than a second, which is rather impressive considering just how long it took Cydia Eraser to do the same job on earlierfirmwareversions.
SemiRestore11 will benefit jailbreakers that fancy starting over from scratch or folks that want to sell their jailbreakable device as is without updating its firmware version. After all, jailbreakable devices often rake in a bit of extra dough when sold to the right buyer.
While there’s no concrete ETA for SemiRestore11’s release at this time, the tool is now finished and Pwn20wnd says we can “expect a release at any time.”
Notably, the Electra Team is also planning torelease a full Cydia replacement dubbed Sileoin one of the next updates to Electra1131.
Are you excited to have access to an un-jailbreaking tool for your pwned iOS 11 device? Share why or why not in the comments section below.
