The greatest fear of any user who has made you jailbreak your iOS device is that you encounter a problem requiring you to restore your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and lose the jailbreak. With this idea, the owner of Cydia Saurik created a tool called Cydia Impactor which left the device as if it had been restored with iTunes and kept the jailbreak, but while wait a version compatible with iOS > iOS 9.1, Semi-Restore has been updated to support the latest versions vulnerable to jailbreak.
It is clear that Saurik tool is better and it leaves everything cleaner, not to mention it’s all easier. The differences between Cydia impinger and Semi-Restore are essentially two: Cydia Impactor works directly from the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and restores the device completely, while Semi-Restore depends on a computer and keeps the jailbreak. In both cases the version of iOS is maintained, but if we have used Cydia Impactor we will have to make the jailbreak again.
Semi-Restore is already compatible with iOS up to 9.1
If you have a problem, you are thinking to restore your iOS device but not decidíais you for not losing the jailbreak, now you can do it following the tutorial made by Gonzalo in his Tutorial day: restore without losing the jailbreak (SemiRestore). The process is very simple and is little different to the tools we use to do the jailbreak. Once past the Semi-Restore, our device will show the Welcome screen as if we finished restoring from your device or with iTunes, but the jailbreak will be made and 100% operational. All data, applications and tweaks, will be cleared so it is worthwhile, as always, make a backup before starting the process.
You can download the latest version of Semi-Restore from this link. If you have used the tool, please do not hesitate to leave your experiences in the comments.
