Unable to remove Chimera from my iPad. | r/Jailbreak | Page 1

shy patrol Mar 22, 2026, 6:22 AM

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Hi there, I want to sell off my iPad mini 2nd gen running iOS 12.5.8 and hence want to remove the Chimera jailbreak. I followed the guide but it came to no avail. At first, chimera's app crashed but after rebooting once again, the rootfs option finally seemed to do something, by rebooting. But that did not do anything as well. Chimera and Sileo are both still present after multiple tries of rebooting on my own as well as with Chimera.

Since there isn't much data I can simply restore it via DFU mode, but wanted to see if there was a possibility of not going down that path. Any suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks!

ivory cargoBOT Mar 22, 2026, 6:22 AM

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@shy patrol Thanks for creating a new thread!

Please use /solved to close this thread when you're done.

shy patrol Mar 22, 2026, 6:40 AM

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And this is what I get everytime after pressing the restore filesystem button. I click OK and it reboots but doesn't seem to get unjailbroken

torn wing Mar 22, 2026, 6:46 AM

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you should just keep the ipad it’s probably going for $25

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but yes ipsw restore is the only way

shy patrol Mar 22, 2026, 6:50 AM

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yeah i would've kept it too, but im getting an exchange bonus on top of its value, so it made sense.

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Anyways, thanks for your help!

meager bloom Mar 22, 2026, 7:30 AM

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When I factory resetted my mini 2 chimera went away after setup

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Like I did it through settings not via pc

shy patrol Mar 22, 2026, 12:29 PM

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Oh, well I read that doing it via that method might not remove it completely from the file system. So I just followed the iTunes restore.

#Unable to remove Chimera from my iPad.