Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the iOS 10.1 during a product launch event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California on October 27, 2016. (Photo : Getty Images/ Josh Edelson)
A finalized iOS 10 jailbreak from Team Pangu is reportedly on the way as rumors surfaced that one Chinese developer is helping out the hacking team from China in completing the next JB tool. However, the exact release date for the next jailbreak is yet to be revealed.
Gamenguide reported that a security engineer from China's giant online firm is said to be collaborating for the next jailbreak release. The dev, known for now through his Twitter handle @SparkZheng, is credited for jailbreaking iOS 9.3.4 although that version was not made public.
Specifically for the iOS 10 jailbreak that will unlock the iPhone 7, @SparkZheng is supposedly working on an open source feature designed for Apple's latest flagship smartphone. That would mean an iPhone 7 running on Pangu's next jailbreak will be open for further modifications. How exactly the hack will play out, the report did not mention.
But the Gamenguide report was clear on the chief reason why Pangu is taking too long in releasing the latest jailbreak. "The release of the iOS 10 jailbreak has been drastically delayed due to the very time-consuming and meticulous process it takes to hack the system," the report said, pointing to an unnamed source.
The fresh information is the latest of the indicators so far that Team Pangu is hard at word to provide the next jailbreak. While the group has been silent in the last few months, the jailbreak community remains optimistic that they will be the source of a fully working and untethered iOS 10 jailbreak as Pangu has a proof that Apple's mobile OS can be jailbroken. The devs have successfully installed Cydia on iOS 10.
And as if supporting the Chinese hackers' ongoing work, Luca Todesco recently demoed an iPhone 7 working just fine with a jailbroken version of iOS 10.1.1, which the dev claimed is a tool that is backward compatible with version 10.1.
These works, however, were just prelude to the real public jailbreak that according to Cydia creator Saurik is definitely an upcoming Pangu masterpiece. Recently, Saurik said that his probe in the jailbreaking circle led him to the conclusion that only the Chinese hackers have a credible and progressing work that will lead to the public release of an iOS 10 jailbreak.
