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⚠️ Make sure you know what you're doing: Be very careful here!

  • Boot into recovery mode by pressing ⌘ + r after bootup sound and before apple logo show up
  • Open Terminal and remove e[x]ecute flag from MobileDeviceUpdater binary: 
    cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Apple/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources/MobileDeviceUpdater.app/Contents/MacOS/
chmod 644 MobileDeviceUpdater
  • Reboot normally
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