The most advanced jail-break tool. Coming soon to all devices on iOS 13.5

The most advanced jail-break tool. Coming soon to all devices on iOS 13.5(unc0ver.dev)

31 points by fheld 6 years ago | 19 comments

somada141 6 years ago |

Huh haven’t jailbroken my iPhones since my iPhone 5 back in 2014. Back then I feel that iOS was severely limited in functionality and jailbreaking allowed for custom solutions to problems Apple wasn’t addressing. Since then iOS has seen a plethora of features and I feel there’s little reason to jailbreak anymore. Does anyone know if there’s any good reason to jailbreak anymore? Any killer functionality that would make it worth it?

wayneftw 6 years ago | |

Switching the default apps. Sideloading. Arranging my home screens any way that I want.Tweaking the system any way that I want. Tweaking the UI any way that I want.

Allowing me to build some software and install it on the device I own without having to get it blessed by Apple.

These are all very good reasons to jailbreak.

AJRF 6 years ago | |

Running apps that Apple don’t like on the App Store.

SSH’ing into your iPhone.

And the main reason for jailbreaking now is so you can dump source code from running IPAs with Frida.

fomine3 6 years ago | |

I quit from jailbreak but I still miss Activator in iPhone that enables button customize to skip/play music by pressing volume button. I prefer pressing phone button than touching wireless earphone's button.

Also miss the ability to change default browser from Safari.

typon 6 years ago | |

Run a server on that powerful arm?

adjkant 6 years ago | | |

That can't be cost efficient compared to alternatives can it?

SwiftyBug 6 years ago | | |

How could you run a server on a jailbroken iOS device?

sigjuice 6 years ago | | |

Not very appealing, honestly.

mister_hn 6 years ago | |

Sideload apps?

ur-whale 6 years ago | |

The feeling you don't live in a golden jail?

nexuist 6 years ago |

The make or break is whether this one is finally untethered or not. I miss the days when the jailbreak community was abundant both in users and developers. Unfortunately it seems like its days are (have been?) numbered. A shame, because reverse engineering iOS[1] was a hell of a lot of fun.

[1] https://github.com/GN-OS/Bloard

aloknnikhil 6 years ago |

This includes the iPhone Xs and 11 (and presumably all A12 and A13 devices). Was there a new exploit found on these chips? Last I checked only devices with chips older than the A12 were vulnerable to the checkra1n exploit.

judge2020 6 years ago | |

new exploit:

> using a 0day kernel vulnerability from @Pwn20wnd

https://twitter.com/unc0verteam/status/1263260302713524225?s...

dang 6 years ago |

The baity title and the coming-soonness are two strikes against this submission. Does anyone want to argue in its favor? and if so, what should we change the title to?

mike_d 6 years ago | |

The actual news here is that an iOS 13.5 kernel 0day is going to be released publicly. The exploit was paid for by a phone case manufacturer.

It isn't a great source, but the original tweet actually has more detail than the website: https://twitter.com/unc0verTeam/status/1263260302713524225?s...

Edit: I'd suggest pointing here for context - https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/20/jailbreak-for-all-ios-13-5-de...

dang 6 years ago | | |

Doesn't it make sense to wait until it's released?

RyanShook 6 years ago |

Are iOS exploits becoming more common? Feels like a few years ago they were rare but now they’re being released more often.

praseodym 6 years ago | |

Apparently they are, Zerodium has even stopped accepting new iOS privilege escalation exploits: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/