Pangu has reportedly jailbroken the iOS 10 though Apple is expected to figure out and patch that before the Fall. (Photo : Getty Images/Andrew Burton)
Hacker group Pangu has finally achieved something with its jailbreaking journey by hacking the first beta version of iOS 10. While that should be welcome news to the jailbreaking community, the fact is that Apple can still tweak and make changes before the Fall.
Pangu showed off a jailbroken iOS 10 beta at the MOSFET 2016. The event was filled with jailbreaking milestones that covered potential jailbreaks for iOS 9.3.2 and iOS 9.3.3.
Apple released the second iOS 10 beta recently and it remains to be seen if the jailbreak works on the latest developer version. At MOSET 2016, Pangu showed off through a slide presentation screenshots of Cydia installed on iOS 10.
For those who are unfamiliar with Cydia, this is the jailbreaking community version of the iOS App Store which can only be installed on jailbroken devices. Stephen Chan offers more details on the presentation via his blog.
With several iOS jailbreaks shown off, all of them will be rendered irrelevant unless Pangu makes them public. Given that Apple plans to release iOS 10 by September, Pangu could rush the process and come up with a jailbreak as early as this week according to Forbes.
Belief of such surfaced when a member of the Pangu team answered a query from the audience on when an iOS 9.3.2 jailbreak may come out. According to that person, there is a chance that the jailbreak may come out within the week.
With regards to the iOS 10, the breakthrough is something to marvel but the fact is that Apple has not officially released the next mobile OS. Following word that vulnerabilities have been found, the Cupertino company is likely to look into it and patch that before its big release in September.
Considering Pangu and TaiG have been lagging severely behind on an iOS jailbreak, things may have just picked up. The last time an iOS jailbreak came was for the iOS 9.3.1 version so a lot of anxious iPhone and iPad owners are eager to see if a long awaited crack is within reach.
If not, the cat and mouse game continues with Apple technically still up on the hacker group. Could all that change soon?
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