It remains all quiet in the jailbreak front as Apple is now on public beta 7 of iOS 10.2, somehow further proving that the company is outracing the likes of Team Pangu and TaiG. With the rate the tech giant is going, will there be an iOS 10 jailbreak release at all?
As the known jailbreak personalities seem to have mysteriously retreated, Apple's beta pace for version 10.2 appears to be in supersonic speed that JB tool creators are finding it hard catch up. Now on beta 7, iOS 10.2 is tipped to become official as early as next week or in the next few days.
Speculations are rife that once 10.2 becomes official, Pangu or TaiG will take that as the cue to finally unleash the next jailbreak. But will that be really the case? As pointed out by BGR in a report, there's hardly a breathing room for known iOS 10 exploits or bugs to remain. Apple is making sure that the OS errors are patched and zapped before could take advantage of the openings.
In the last 2 weeks alone, four betas of 10.2 were seeded to developers, serving as solid statement for jailbreak makers and hackers out there that there will be no letup in making sure that iOS 10's security is tightly guarded.
Yet the lid apparently is ready to be pried open anytime, if independent developer Luca Todesco is to be believed. This week, the hacker delivered some form of a bad news - that iOS 10 2 is sort of a jailbreak killer. Installing the iOS build will more likely result to jailbreak lockout, meaning there is no chance or slim possibility of enjoying the next jailbreak release when one has made the mistake of updating to the latest beta build.
In fact, Todesco is convinced that beta is better than the official version when security is of prime importance. "iOS betas are usually more secure than stable versions. If you care about security, install them," the hacker was reported by Redmond Pie as saying in a Twitter post this week.
His point, beta iOS 10.2 will provide tough security that jailbreak makers will find nearly impossible to crack. And the same robust protection is likely to be carried over with the official 10.2 release so the best bet is sticking with the iOS version with doors open for jailbreaking.
And that would be iOS 10.1.1, which Todesco has recently demoed running on iPhone 7 in jailbroken state. But as Todesco is not known to push out an iOS public release, the ball is now on Pangu or TaiG to work on the next jailbreak release.