He even released a video to further prove that admittedly unbelievable 24-hour claim. His motivation was to remove carrier restrictions from the device.
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Since then, folks have still been waiting to hear new details related to an iOS 10 jailbreak. Also, it is not mentioned whether it is a tethered or untethered jailbreak, or whether it is using exploits that teams such as Pangu can manipulate or whether it uses developer only features to install Cydia. Todesco showed off his successful jailbreak on Twitter just five days after the release of the iPhone 7, and barely a week after the release of iOS10. Remember, Cydia was first released in February 2008 and has been running off of that core foundation ever since as with each upgrade, it still needs to be able to support devices as old as the 2nd Generation iPod Touch!
The good thing is that jailbreaking is not required since it’s all just a bug in iOS, so if you don’t like it, you can always return to the default iOS 10 looks without losing a single file.
They definitely made my life harder. “Obviously, it’s not 100 percent secure-like nothing else is”.
He added that, while he could submit the vulnerabilities he found to Apple through the firm’s newly launched bug bounty programme, he hasn’t decided whether to do that yet. The jailbreak is created to work on all devices with an A7 processor or higher.
It is believed that Todesco is the first person to have successfully jailbroken the iPhone 7 but other people will figure out the method soon.
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“I don’t but given his track record, I wouldn’t be surprised”, an Apple spokesperson said when asked if Apple knows whether Todesco’s jailbreak is legit. In August, he jailbroke the iPhone 6S running iOS 9.3.4 and tweeted the image.
