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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by dwaite on Monday September 23, 2024 @02:14AM (#41622795)
It will not be able to reliably work with the A partition once B boots the first time - the update process even for many minor releases will trigger local and cloud data upgrades, and there are security reasons to not leave the option to leave older/unpatched versions runnable.

I don't think I've had a software update fail since iOS 7 beta 1 - and that was an issue with updating local data on first boot, so any attempt to revert to the prior OS without a wipe would have been pointless.

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Re:Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Anothe... by circularfoyers on Monday September 23, 2024 @09:36AM (#41625939)
I believe the point isn't to let you rollback at will, but it'll automatically rollback if it fails a boot check, so before anything is written to the filesystem. However, it's worth noting that Fedora Silverblue/IoT let's you rollback at will without problem.
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