Help/Support Decrypted App Store for ViP doesn't Decrypt most ViP versions of an app

NXT · January 25, 2023

15 hours ago, Rook said:

You can also manually perform the process with Charles Proxy. There is a tutorial posted online somewhere.

Do you have an ETA as to when the issue will be fixed? I primarily bought ViP for this feature, granted ViP Pro, as I also support iOSGods, and I am worried my ViP will end before this issue is resolved. I don't have an iPhone I can jailbreak atm, so it is a saddening experience.

Holyee · January 25, 2023

16 hours ago, Rook said:

You can also manually perform the process with Charles Proxy. There is a tutorial posted online somewhere.

The tutorial is at https://github.com/qnblackcat/How-to-Downgrade-apps-on-AppStore-with-iTunes-and-Charles-Proxy. The good news is that this tutorial does exactly what I was trying to do with the old versions function of armconverter. Thanks for the tip! That's exactly what I've been asking about trying to do. The one caveat is that that GitHub page linked to a version of iTunes that didn't work out, so I followed the instructions on Apple's website to get iTunes 12.6.5.3. The guides uses Charles 4.2.7, but the latest version (4.6.3) worked for me in my case. This of course just gets you bare downloads through iTunes without decryption, cheats, or anything, but it will at least let you install older versions of any apps you can find on the Apple store.

The bad news is that while I got what I was looking for, the Charles program is a 30-day trial with some annoying popups before a $50 purchase price. So that's $17 plus $50 I'd have spent on this venture if I want to continue past that. 😆 But eh. I got what I was looking for with the help of this website, with or without the help of a VIP subscription.

Updated January 25, 2023 by Holyee
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Rook · February 22, 2023

On 1/25/2023 at 8:55 PM, NXT said:

Do you have an ETA as to when the issue will be fixed? I primarily bought ViP for this feature, granted ViP Pro, as I also support iOSGods, and I am worried my ViP will end before this issue is resolved. I don't have an iPhone I can jailbreak atm, so it is a saddening experience.

On 1/12/2023 at 1:29 AM, ScottieC111 said:

We'll use this game for example:
Bike Race: Free Style Games

This game doesn't work at all for any version whatsoever. It only works with the most current version. Every time I try to decrypt a different version it just gives me an error, once I refresh the page it gives me a Red download button that says.
"Decrypt this version! (likely will fail)"
Why does it fail?
I bought ViP specifically to downgrade this app but if I can't, it's okay.

On 1/23/2023 at 10:05 PM, Holyee said:

Scottie, it seems we're in the same boat. I posted a topic on this same subject a little over a week before this topic. I got (and get) the same series of errors. Looking at the older versions of various apps, I highly doubt old version downloads ever worked for anyone since I can't find any downloads for any app older than about 1/4 down the slider. Also like you, I bought VIP specifically for this one thing, and one thing only. A bulletin or notification that the function was inoperable at the time would have been nice. I could have then saved my sub for later, since I've got a little over a month in my sub left, I haven't been able to use it yet (I have iOS 9.3.5, so recent downloads are next to useless), and it's starting to look like it might go up in flames before this gets resolved. 😞

There's also been a more recent topic, and while that one mentioned a 500 error which occasionally happens to all downloads (including the most recent ones), it especially calls out downloads of older versions.

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