You probably knew this already, but if you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, don’t upgrade to iOS 8.3. Not only does it break existing jailbreaks, but it patches a huge number of security holes in the operating system, making an iOS 8.3 jailbreak farther off than ever.
As pointed out on Twitter by iOS jailbreak superstar MuscleNerd, the latest iOS 8.3 update comntains a staggering 39 security fixes. That, for the record, is about as many security fixes Apple made between iOS 7 and iOS 8.
The 39 security bugs fixed in today's iOS 8.3 https://t.co/eiV23ubkpv rivals the 7.x->8.0 release (but JBers still need to avoid it)
— Ⓜ MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) April 8, 2015
It’s actually a huge accomplishment on Apple part. When iOS 8 was released, it could be jailbroken almost immediately. Jailbreakers kept up with Apple’s patches right up to iOS 8.1.2, but iOS 8.1.3 represented the first big stumbling block for jailbreakers trying to get around Apple’s defenses.
iOS 8.3 looks about as strong from a security standpoint as any version of iOS 8 ever. It even patches a vulnerability used by the TaiG Jailbreak Team, which many were hoping would result in a speedy iOS 8.3 jailbreak. (As a slight consolation prize, Apple credited the TaiG team for finding the bug in their support notes).
When will we see an iOS 8.3 jailbreak? It could be a while, but if the jailbreak team has taught us anything, it’s never to underestimate them.
Via: Redmond Pie
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
18 responses to “The iOS 8.3 jailbreak could be a long time coming”
Fuq.
8.1 even with a jailbreak has been very stable, I do wan’t the new emoji’s though. Oh well!
hey can you HELP me I have a sprint iphone 5s and I want to switch servies but my phone is locked with sprint so I decided to jailbreak my phone can you please help me I have the newest update ios.8.3
I’m really not trying to be rude, but this article in particular, has just told you it could be a WHILE before a jailbreak for 8.3 is available. Unless there is a way to revert, you cannot Jailbreak at this time.
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you are dumb.
you don’t need a jailbreak to switch carriers you need it unlocked. take it to sprint and tell them to unlock it. as long as you are current with your billing they can’t not unlock it.
Tim Cook you cum drinking piece of shit homo
Is anyone aware of an iOS 8.1 port of the Apple Watch app on Cydia? When my Watch comes on the 24th I don’t want to be forced to lose my jailbreak!
I blame the geniuses who showed their hand wasting jailbreaks on betas.
I got 8.3 because emoji’s I do want to jailbreak but I guess I have to wait a long time now
never buying apple again….
Very Disappointed, I hope we could get a new jailbreak tool for ios8.3……
Oh Shoot!
8.1.3 has came to me as an angel of death,,it is killing me inside,,pretty fucked up
hell no, im new on jailbreak and I need to wait looooooong time :(
i got caught in a respring loop so i had no choice but to update :T
F*ck this bs
waiting for so long for 8.2 jb
8.3 is out
how much longer are we supposed to wait?
iphone without JB is worse phone to own
Apple must let whoever wants to jailbreak their device do it! This is kinda tyrannical. Apple is really boring without the tweaks :(