iOS 9.1 Jailbreak News: Jailbreak Teams Continue to Work on Tools For New Operating System
Jailbreak teams continue to work on creating a successful jailbreak tool for Apple's iOS 9.1. The two teams that might be able to discover a jailbreak tool are Pangu and TaiG.
It is very possible that either Pangu or TaiG will soon be able to jailbreak iOS 9.1, possibly in early 2016, Day Herald reports.
When iOS 9.1 was being developed, there was already a jailbreak tool for iOS 9. Apple went through several beta versions of iOS 9.1 before finally releasing the full version of the operating system.
When iOS 9.1 was released it had fixed the vulnerabilities that were used by the Pangu jailbreak team in their iOS 9 jailbreak. Apple admitted that it included two patches in iOS 9.1 that fixed what Pangu had exploited.
Now, Pangu and TaiG have to find new exploits and vulnerabilities in the iOS 9.1 operating system in order to jailbreak it. Apple is already working on the beta versions of iOS 9.2 and will soon release the final version to the public as an over-the-air download.
Apple has focused on making their operating systems much more secure, which is making creating jailbreak tools even more difficult.
The Pangu jailbreak tool works for iOS 9, iOS 9.0.1 and iOS 9.0.2. If users upgraded from one of these operating systems to iOS 9.1, they were given a short time to downgrade back to them. Apple has closed the downgrade window, which means a user on iOS 9.1 has no complete jailbreak tool.
A team of hackers was able to remotely jailbreak iOS 9.1 and was paid a $1 million bounty from Zerodium. Unfortunately, the team is anonymous and since Zerodium now owns the rights to the jailbreak, it is highly unlikely the public will ever see it.
The only jailbreak solution currently available to the public is an incomplete jailbreak tool. The Semi Jailbreak is a partial jailbreak tool available from TaiG.
The jailbreak community hopes that jailbreak solutions are discovered soon for iOS 9.1 and iOS 9.2.
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