How to restore when new iOS is released?

[Acidrop]

Something I haven't really thought about as I'm new to jailbreaking, but how will you restore your phone to iOS7 once they've released iOS8?

 

[natasftw]

You won't. This requires saving the blobs currently available for your device and finding a hack to use those to trick your phone into restoring. There hasn't been a method found for the 5 at any point. The 4s was able to go between some iOS5 versions with some very specific blob criteria met.

You can use tools like ilex rat or semi-restore in these cases to do something close to a restore. Ultimately, if you HAVE to restore, you're giving up your jailbreak. That's why some of us get annoyed when "restore" is the first troubleshooting step offered.

 

[Acidrop]

Crikey, so it's better to do a restore and fresh jailbreak now with only the apps you intend to use to minimise anything going wrong, rather than having a million Cydia apps installed that can ruin it later on?

 

[natasftw]

Crikey, so it's better to do a restore and fresh jailbreak now with only the apps you intend to use to minimise anything going wrong, rather than having a million Cydia apps installed that can ruin it later on?

Or, just delete the apps prior to a restore. Ie, if you have an app that stores a lot of data, delete that data, delete the app, then run your backup.