iOS 8 has been technically jailbroken since October 22, but it’s taken weeks to get it polished enough for Cydia, the jailbreak alternative to the App Store.
Now that things are “stable enough,” Cydia creator Jay Freeman has flipped the switch to start allowing the sale of iOS 8 tweaks and themes.
A group of Chinese hackers called Pangu made and released the iOS 8 jailbreak last month, but it was a rather crude implementation that required bug fixes and updates to make it safe for users beyond the most experienced jailbreakers.
Freeman is the gatekeeper to Cydia, which is the reason most people jailbreak. It’s like an underground app store that offers iOS themes, game emulators, system tweaks, etc. Now that jailbreak developers can officially mark their tweaks as iOS 8 compatible in Cydia, expect a flood of updates and new tweaks in the coming weeks.
Pangu, the tool you need to jailbreak an iOS device, is still only available on Windows, but a Mac version is coming in the next couple of days.
If you are waiting to jailbreak your iOS 8.0-8.1 device until things are “stable enough”: we now seem to be ready! ;P https://t.co/XRUU74p7i8
— Jay Freeman (saurik) (@saurik) November 6, 2014
Cydia vendors can now mark their products as iOS 8 compatible. (The jailbreak platform itself is now stable enough to make this reasonable.) — Jay Freeman (saurik) (@saurik) November 6, 2014
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6 responses to “iOS 8 jailbreak finally ‘stable enough’ to use”
Its cool and all, but it doesn’t seem very practical for every day use.
yes, now is the time to install software from china on your mac that will jail brake your iphone. seems perfectly reasonable.
Im not sure if this is that trustworthy with the hackers being based out of China who knows whats being done to the OS especially after this whole wirelurk thing. I was fine when it was the Evader team but now I’m a little skeptical.
If Saurik is supporting the Pangu team’s jb, thats verfication enough for me that they’re trustworthy. I may not know much about Pangu, besides that their last jb for my 5 didn’t harm my phone whatsoever, but I trust Saurik implicitly.
I don’t know. I used to be heavy into jail breaking. but for me now that Im back with a 6 Plus it doesn’t seem JB offers me anything I need anymore. It might be nice to add themes again but I can live w/o them
The main reason I keep jailbreaking is for tethering on my grandfathered unlimited data plan.