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)
It is not from Pangu but there is a new jailbreak based on iOS 10.1 and a video is now out there for the world to see that both the iPhone 7 and the operating system running the device can be jailbroken. However, there is no solid indication that the JB tool will make his work public anytime soon so an iOS 10 jailbreak release date is not to be expected.
In a report, iDownloadblog.com reported that an independent developer has successfully cracked iOS 10.1 and presumably ahead of the usual jailbreak providers such as Pangu, TaiG and iH8sn0w. The hacker was identified through a Twitter handler - @ijapija00, who also provided a clip (can be viewed below) as proof of his work.
The jailbreak is claimed to be fully working, specifically on iPhone 7, and stable but the report noted that based on the shared video it is semi-tethered or quite similar to the last iOS 9 jailbreak that Team Pangu had issued. "It relies on a specialized jailbreak app on the device's Home screen to boot into a jailbroken state after every reboot," iDownloadblog reported, adding that admittedly what was demoed is better than a tethered jailbreak.
Now the big question: When is the public release? No chance, according to @ijapija00 and he has his reasons. One thing is the 10.1 jailbreak he allowed the world to see seems only for his personal pleasure, which is the same case with the Luca Todesco who makes it a habit of teasing jailbreak fans with cracked iOS only to stop short of making it a public jailbreak.
Additionally, the jailbreak appears to be encountering conflict with Cydia Substrate that likely is the major hurdle that keeps @ijapija00 from finalizing the tool. The hacker also admitted that his work is not fully stable. "This jailbreak is stable sometimes and sometimes not. That means that it's mostly used for testing tweaks or for private use and is NOT ready to be released at all," the report quoted the dev as saying.
And @ijapija00 made clear that providing and maintaining a public jailbreak is not a territory he is not comfortable with. "As a single developer, I don't want to be responsible for other people's devices, if they break or lose something. I neither don't have the time to help people having problems with the jailbreak process itself."
So in spite of this latest breakthrough, in reality there is little chance that the public will soon the release of a new jailbreak - one that is based on iOS 10.1. One reason could be the imminent release of version 10.2 that surely will again include OS exploit-killing patches, according to WCCFTech.
And the same report took note of the fact that Pangu and TaiG have been strangely silent for too long a time. "Either they are cooking something under the radar, or they have nothing at all on offer," WCCFTech concluded, adding that at this point and for safety's sake iDevice users must install the latest iOS 10 version as s jailbreak release date seems becoming more impossible by the day.
