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Karunamon on Feb 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Message to Our Customers

Recovery mode with DFU and the like results in a device wipe.

There are many ways to redo the firmware, but every single one of them, by design, requires wiping the phone to implement.

sah2ed on Feb 17, 2016 | [–]

The outcome of entering DFU mode for most of us is a device wipe but this doesn't have to be the case for Apple.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11115945

astrange on Feb 18, 2016 | [–]

You can reinstall a phone from recovery mode without erasing it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201263

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