We have some pretty great news for anyone that stayed on iOS or iPadOS 16.6 or below on their A12 or newer device. As it would appear, staying on the lowest possible firmware and avoiding software updates despite the many temptations really does have its perks!
In a post shared to X (formerly Twitter) early Monday morning, hacker and security researcher Boris Larin (@oct0xor) said that a jailbreak and kernel debugging features are coming to A12-A16-equipped iPhones and iPads running iOS or iPadOS 16.6 or lower.
If released, which certainly appears to be the intent, then this would be the first iOS & iPadOS 16 jailbreak for arm64e devices to date. Even more interesting is the fact that it doesn’t appear to use the Kernel File Descriptor (kfd) exploit.
The post included a screenshot showcasing the accomplishment, which appears to be picking up traction in the jailbreak community:
Already, Dopamine jailbreak lead developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) and even the RootHide development team (@roothidedev) have commented about the news.
Fröder is now considering whether to continue their plans to work on Dopamine 2 now that there could be a new option in town, however we think that a Dopamine 2 release would be beneficial for a myriad of reasons, such as the fact that it could support even newer firmware if a newer PAC or PPL bypass were made available.
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