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Why Should We Flash iDevice?

07/20/2017

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Why Should We Flash iDevice?


What is flash?

Flashing your iPhone means re-installing the whole system of your device. After flashing, the system of you iPhone will be clean and the device will become more smoothly to use. Now let’s take a look at the pros and cons of flashing.

 

Advantages:

It’s very clear that you will enjoy the fluency of your iPhone after flashing because of re-installing the system. Moreover, after some period of usage, iOS users would find out that their device would reboot automatically for no reason and perform poorly. Even worse, you would not start your device. If you could not solve these problems, flashing would be a direct method.

 

As far as iOS system is concerned, each system update would bring different experience to you. You could update by flashing to enjoy different using experience.

 

In conclusion, flashing could let you solve some problems of your device, and you could also experience different system.

 

Disadvantages:

According to the website, frequently flashing would have an effect on both the hardware and life of your device. But it could not be proved to be true. That is not to say that flashing doesn’t have some potential disadvantages. If you don’t know much about flashing and flash very frequently, your device would probably get gummed up.

 

However, if there’s nothing wrong with your device, flashing could solve most problems of your device. Novice should be more carefully to flash. You could learn more about flashing on 3u’s tutorials. 


Windows
Mac OS
iOS
Linux
3uTools
Win 64-bit For this device
V9.0 2025-11-11
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Win 32-bit For this device
V9.0 2025-11-11
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3uTools V3.18
2025-09-18
Please use the 3uTools PC client to install the iOS client:
1、 Install either the Windows or Mac version of 3uTools on your computer
2、 Open the PC client and connect your device to the computer via USB cable
3、 After the connection is successful, wait for the computer to automatically install the mobile app for the device, or locate “Install Mobile App” on the computer and manually click to install.
3uTools
deb file
v3.01 2025-11-20
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rpm file
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Windows
iOS
Android
3uAirPlayer
Win 64-bit For this device
V6.0.2 2025-11-19
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Win 32-bit For this device
V6.0.2 2025-11-19
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iOS Device Mirroring (No App Required)
1、 Install 3uAirplayer on the Windows PC
2、 Open Control Center and select Screen Mirroring
3、 From the list, choose your PC to start mirroring
4、 Or connect your iOS device to the PC via USB to begin mirroring
Scan to get "3uAirPlayer" App