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How To Make It Look Like You Are Running A Different Version Of iOS [iOS 6]

April 4, 2012 by Guest 26 Comments

I recently wanted to trick my friends into thinking that I had iOS 6 installed on my iOS device. I knew this was definitely possible, but I had to find the correct plist file somewhere on my iOS device’s filesystem. After looking into directories where it would probably be, I finally found it! So here is the tutorial on how to make it look like you are running a different version of iOS, in my case iOS 6.

Make It Look Like You Are Running iOS 6

Before we start this how to guide please take a look at what you will need:

  • iFile (any app/tweak like iFile will do)

Step 1: The first thing you will need to do is go into iFile and enter the following directory:

/System/Library/CoreServices/

Step 2: Scroll down to the bottom and you should see SystemVersion.plist (Not SystemVersion.plist%).

Step 3: Open that plist file using property list viewer.

Step 4: You should see 4 lines, open the last one (ProductVersion).

Step 5: Change the version of iOS to whatever you want (in my case from 5.1 to 6.0).

That is it. You have just “changed” which version of iOS you are running on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Have fun and please leave any questions or thoughts in the comments section.

[Written by Yahya Kisana]

Comments

  1. Jabbott1995 says

    April 4, 2012 at 3:24 am

    It bricked my iPhone…

  2. Iflypmdg747400 says

    April 4, 2012 at 3:48 am

    I try it and cahange it too 1701 lol Enterprise work cool

  3. Manny Hernandez says

    April 4, 2012 at 3:20 am

    dude great man it works  lol

  4. Richard Taken says

    April 4, 2012 at 3:22 am

    Seems almost pointless unless you like to show off your jailbroken phone to people (Hey, look at my phone! It looks different to you’re phone). But its cool to know how to change stuff on the phone, so thanks!

  5. Guest says

    April 4, 2012 at 3:58 am

    Is this what people do to impress their friends? Change the version number in your phone and show it off?

  6. Shurjoali says

    April 4, 2012 at 4:06 am

    it doesnt change the features, it only makes all the apps think youre running the new version. you will still have physical dependency issues

  7. Guest says

    April 4, 2012 at 6:20 am

    Senseless

  8. BatesOut says

    April 4, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    What a complete and utter waste of time, you have to be 1 pretty sad goon to want to try and fool your uneducated friends that you were running a different version of iOS.

  9. f96lrs says

    April 4, 2012 at 7:05 pm

     mine to lost my JB 4S SAD

  10. Djlipkiss says

    April 5, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    I would like to know if same thing can be done to the base band info.

  11. Aba says

    July 6, 2012 at 2:30 am

     If either of you were smart enough to make a backup of the plist and use a proper editor, there is no risk of brick. Not to mention you can’t ‘brick’ an iPhone unless you’re doing some hardware flashing. Editing a simple system plist does not brick your phone

  12. bbg says

    August 23, 2012 at 1:16 am

    ive done this already, but i cant get apps that require higher version than i have. why is this?

  13. D3XMAN says

    January 11, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    This works. I have an iPhone 4s, 5.0 FW, and it’s jailbroken. I used a iFile (dl’ed from Cydia) to find the file and change it. I dl’ed Bastion which was originally incompatible with my FW (I tried several times before). I even changed it back to my original 5.0 FW after the install and the game still worked. Although it looked like my App Store was glitched, not showing available updates or any apps in the store… Luckily that got fixed after trying to use the “Update All” option and a reboot after the FW “change”. Anyway, hope this helps somebody.

  14. Jason Hines says

    September 1, 2013 at 8:33 am

    I is a bit daft just for that reason, but great for apps if you have a shitty old ios.

  15. MaPpeT says

    October 8, 2013 at 1:02 pm

    done.. thanks a lot

  16. I tested it says

    January 25, 2014 at 8:28 am

    If you running iOS 4.3.3, don’t change it because it will make app store not working.

  17. Amine says

    February 1, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    How do you fix this? :(

  18. FreddyFazbear says

    January 2, 2015 at 3:16 pm

    I dunno, I have ipod 2g ios 3.1.1 and i installed ios 7 apps with this trick

  19. FreddyFazbear says

    January 2, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    However, They don’t start.

  20. salim says

    September 23, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    Warning !!!! revert changes back before reboot/respring !!! if u accidentally did that then the only way to fix it is to manually edit the .plist file through stfp or ssh !!

  21. nikx says

    July 8, 2016 at 8:08 am

    noooo i rebooted why why it hurts

  22. nikx says

    July 8, 2016 at 8:09 am

    oh it just booted like ok i think yaaaaaaaaay

  23. DV says

    December 9, 2017 at 6:04 pm

    idk if this will work when you reboot

  24. Valmir Krasniqi says

    December 13, 2017 at 8:46 am

    Unlock icloud iphone 6 imei 359297068269553

  25. SHAHRIAR says

    April 10, 2018 at 3:20 am

    hey, I was changed my ios 7.1.2 version with ios 9.1.3 but when I go to app store and try to download a ios 8 verson app their is showing upgrade your ios version to 8. How can I fully fix it.

  26. Dister says

    November 24, 2018 at 2:22 am

    Need iOS for 9.0

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