How to get rid of Electra jailbreak traces in iOS 12 backup

You updated to iOS 12 but the banking client does not allow you to make money transfers, swearing at jailbreak

? Then this article is for you.

If you have ever used jailbreak, thenYou probably know that with jailbreak running, banking applications will in every possible way prevent you from transferring money to your friends and electronic wallets. For example, the most popular bank in Russia – Sberbank limits transfers, allowing only transfers between its accounts.

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Of course, all this is done for security reasons,since a device with a jailbreak potentially has more vulnerabilities than a stock device. But even in this case, there are ways to circumvent these restrictions; earlier we wrote an article on how to bypass the limitations of Sberbank on devices with jailbreak.

There was always the easiest way –update to the latest available iOS, thereby getting rid of jailbreak and enjoying the banking application as before. But what to do if you updated to iOS 12 on top of the Electra jailbreak, then restored the device from a backup and launched Sberbank in the hope of transferring money to someone. And suddenly you see that Sberbank is swearing again – “You are using an iPhone with Jailbreak. For your safety, this feature has been disabled…”. But how? I updated to iOS 12, for which there is no jailbreak yet?

In general, the whole point is that when you hadjailbreaking your iPhone made a backup copy of the entire file system of the phone and the jailbreak files (Cydia, etc.) went there. And now, when you restore this copy to a clean device with iOS 12, traces of the jailbreak appear in the file system. Next I will show you the methodhow to get rid of jailbreak tracesfrom an iPhone or iPad backup.

How to edit an iPhone or iPad backup

  1. First, you need to make a backup to your computer, and to do this, in the iTunes settings, switch to “This PC”.
  2. Make a new backup by clicking “Back up now”. This will take some time, depending on the amount of internal memory on the device.
  3. Download iBackupBot, it works on both Windows and macOS.
  4. Launch iBackupBot, the program will automatically find all backups on the computer.
  5. Select the last backup you just made.
  6. Now in the left list, open the System Files folder and enter “Cydia” in the search.
  7. Delete all found files.
  8. Repeat the search for all remaining folders and if there are similar files there, delete them.
  9. Then close iBackupBot
  10. Go to iTunes and restore to the latest backup.
  11. After these steps, you should not have any jailbreak traces in the backup. You can verify this by running a bank client, such as Sberbank, and perform a test transfer.

If the money is successfully transferred, then you are doneeverything is correct and there are no more traces of jailbreak on the phone. And for the future, remember before updating to the latest version of iOS from jailbroken iOS – remove it, for example for Electra there are several removal tools. How to remove jailbreak usingSemiRestoreeleven/Rollectra we wrote earlier.