Early morning, pre coffee, you plug in your iPhone to sync it up, a box pops up and you hit “Ok.” Three seconds later you are cursing and kicking and smacking yourself. We’ve all been there. You just accidentally hit the “Update” button in iTunes and watched as your precious device starts to update and lose it’s  jailbreak. Well, now there’s a new tweak in Cydia called RecoveryGuard that blocks iTunes from updating your device! How does it work? Read more to find out…..

RecoveryGuard works a lot different than most Cydia apps out there, but then again not many Cydia apps have the purpose of what RecoveryGuard’s purpose is. RecoveryGuard, when it has been installed to your device, tricks iTunes into thinking you have the latest iOS firmware. Therefore, when you accidentally hit “Update”, a pop-up will appear from iTunes stating that you’re on the most recent version of iOS when you might be on 4.1!

So, how do you get this tweak? Well, just add the following repo to your Cydia sources, refresh and then search for RecoveryGuard (Remember, your device must be jailbroken in order to install this!!!):  http://cydia.pushfix.info . Enjoy never losing your jailbreak because of iTunes!