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)
Eerily silent in the past months, Team Pangu is likely to spring into action in the coming days and finally release the iOS 10 jailbreak that many iPhone and iPad users have been clamoring for. Apple just released beta number 5 of iOS 10.2 and researchers found a way to bypass the software's Activation Lock protection - likely enough reasons for the next jailbreak to touchdown.
As if proving that iOS is not the same stuff that it used to be, Apple made public beta 5 of iOS 10.2 with surprising speed, BGR reported. Of note, this is the second OS preview drop made in a week and the latest move somehow indicates that the full version of 10.2 is coming around real. Going by the release schedule followed by Apple so far, it's not remote that the finalized 10.2 will be out by Monday next week.
And that could be the cue for Team Pangu to also finalize its jailbreak works so far. While the Chinese hacking team has maintained radio silence on the matter in the past months, jailbreak fans remain convinced that the devs will soon provide the next JB tool and only waiting for the right timing to do so.
In recent reports, it was said that Team Pangu is silently working on the modified iOS 10 and will only release the tool after the next big update from Apple. It was thought that a jailbreak based, for instance, on version 10.2, will work better and last longer so with the full 10.2 version inching closer to a public release so is the jailbreak form.
And the jailbreak makers finalizing their crack of iOS 10 could be further inspired by the news that the software is indeed open for jailbreaking. According to iDownloadblog.com, there exists an iOS 10 bug that permits the bypass of the Activation Lock.
The exploit was first seen with version 10.1 and supposedly Apple has patched the vulnerability. But a new clip (can be viewed below) seems to prove that the bug remains in version 10.1.1, and likely was the same backdoor used by Luca Todesco when he showed off a jailbroken iPhone 7 running on iOS 10.1.1.
This new information somehow points to the direction of an upcoming iOS 10 jailbreak release from Team Pangu, which according to Cydia creator Saurik has the only credible that could lead to a fully working and untethered JB tool. And it is likely to make its public debut soon, thanks to the new proofs mentioned above.
