irecovery -s
The blue glow of the monitor bathed Lin’s face as she stared at the command line. On the table in front of her lay an iPhone 7—a paperweight. Three days ago, a tweak gone wrong had locked it in a permanent boot loop. The Apple logo pulsed like a dying heartbeat, then went black. Then pulsed again. Restore mode didn't work. Recovery mode didn't work. The phone was a ghost trapped in hardware.
Lin exhaled slowly. The forums were right. It wasn’t going to work. Pwndfu Mode Windows
Found device in DFU mode. Attempting pwndfu... Exploit sent. Device is now in pwndfu mode.
ipwndfu -p
A prompt appeared. iRecovery] #
The program spat out: “No device found. Is it in DFU mode?” irecovery -s The blue glow of the monitor
She put the phone back in DFU. Counted in her head: one one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand, four. Then she hit Enter.