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Want to jailbreak after updating OTA

Yes, you will be able to jail break your phone after using the OTA feature to upgrade to iOS 6.1.

However.

The jail breaking community HIGHLY recommends you do the upgrade via iTunes. The OTA method uses different APTickets that might (very small might) interfere with the jail break. But the main reason why you don't want to use an OTA is for the future. We found out that with iOS 5.1.1 - if you had that iOS on your phone due to the OTA method, you could not re-restore to iOS 5.1.1. Or, in the case of the iPad2 [only], downgrade to that iOS.

So, the safest thing for a jail breaker (even those not ready yet) is to (1) always upgrade via iTunes or (2) replace the factory iOS with an upgrade via iTunes (even if it's the same iOS).

We learned our lesson with iOS 5.1.1 - get away from OTA or factory iOSs as soon as possible.

So yes, restore to iOS 6.1 using iTunes now. :)

Marilyn
 
Not with the jailbreak per say, but more towards managing your jailbreak. Sometimes, you might corrupt your system files, and you would need a restore for it. When the iOS is still being signed, that's not a problem, but say iOS 6.1.1 is released and uses it's own core IPSW, meaning you can't use the iOS 6.0 IPSW like iOS 6.0-6.1, then your APTickets won't work if you want to restore using your blobs as the APTicket signatures are different. Like Marilyn said, we had a HUGE lesson for 4S and iPad 2 users with iOS 5 :p
 
Ya just backup the phone first and then restore it

As long as its a restore in iTunes you'll be good
 
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