14 DAY TRIAL // Hacker iH8sn0w has updated his iFaith app to allow iPhone users to downgrade their firmware to the base iOS 5.0 release, should they have installed iOS 5.0.1 in hope of a battery drain fix or for any other reason that didn’t turn out the way they wanted it.
Apple keeps making it harder and harder for users to downgrade their firmware - a practice never officially supported by the company in the first place.
However, hackers like iH8sn0w make it a habit out of bending, and sometimes even breaking Apple’s rules, so iPhone, iPod touch and iPad owners can enjoy using their devices the way they want to.
iH8sn0w’s iFaith 1.4 (Windows only) brings a number of enhancements to the table, and the hacker recommends it to people planning to untether-jailbreak iOS 5 in the future. He says you don’t need to be jailbroken to use it, and that there’s really ‘nothing to lose’. That doesn’t mean you should do it, though.