While iOS 5 may bring about MANY welcome changes to the Apple handheld experience, it looks like Apple may have just rained a monsoon on the jailbreaking community’s parade. With the new iteration of iOS, Apple have axed the ability to save SHSH blobs, which is what allows users to downgrade to previous iOS firmware through iTunes.  Heck, even the iPad 2 doesn’t have an untethered jailbreak at this moment.

What this means is that if you are looking to downgrading your OS, you’ll be limited to pre iOS5 firmware. This is not just a problem for potential jailbreakers. Users will have no way to downgrade to a lower iOS5 version which works better than a (God-forbid) buggy update.

All is not lost though if you are bent on Jailbreaking your device, Dev Team will probably have a tethered jailbreak solution available. Let’s just hope that tethered solutions are not the future for iOS jailbreaking. Let’s see how this interesting turn of events pans out, can Dev Team pull out their ace in the hole?

SOURCE via Cult of Mac