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spillthetea

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Registered: 2025-10-03

Posts: 2

restoring iphone using arch?

hello, newbie here. i have an old iphone 6s that i forgot the password + stuck in recovery mode and just wanna restore the phone to give it to my younger brother. i heard that libimobiledevice and idevicerestore could help me with those thing but I don't know how to use idevicerestore, as quoting ArchWiki's iOS page, "idevicerestore-git can be used to update (reinstall the operating system without touching user data) or restore (reinstall the operating system and erase user data) iOS devices. " but doesn't actually tell me how to use it. so it will be very helpful if you could help me to use it and potentially fixing the iphone.

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 578

Re: restoring iphone using arch?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/idevicerestore-git
https://libimobiledevice.org/
https://libimobiledevice.org/#examples
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/idevicerestore
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … estore-git

spillthetea

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Registered: 2025-10-03

Posts: 2

Re: restoring iphone using arch?

thanks! I fixed the iphone using "idevicerestore --erase --latest", and now it ran flawlessly!

technnah

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Registered: 2026-03-09

Posts: 1

Re: restoring iphone using arch?

please can you show how am complete beginner to linux.
when i run the pair commad it succeeds but when i try to run the one to restore the iphone it says the command not found

Last edited by technnah (2026-03-09 01:32:25)

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 578

Re: restoring iphone using arch?

You need to give a lot more info. Command not found means that you don't have something installed, or it can't be found in your $PATH.