If you felt like you just had to install iOS 8.1.2 because of its devastating “missing ringtone” bug, good news: just 24 hours later, it’s already possible to jailbreak your device.
The jailbreak is called TaiG. It’s in Chinese, and it only works on Windows (although running it in a Windows virtual machine also works fine), but it jailbreaks every version of iOS from iOS 8.0 to iOS 8.1.2, and it works like a charm.
To install the jailbreak, download the TaiG tool, extract its contents, and run the tool as an administrator. For the device you intend to jailbreak, turn off ‘Find My iPhone’ and disable your passcode under ‘Settings’, then enable AirPlane mode. Plug your device into your computer, and when TaiG recognizes your device, uncheck the second box (the one that doesn’t say Cydia) and hit the green button. When you see the smiley face, your jailbreak is done!
According to the Taig team, they’ve already figured out a jailbreak for iOS 8.2, although they are waiting until the next big point release of Apple’s operating system to incorporate it into the Taig tool.
After years of having to wait months for new jailbreaks between iOS updates, jailbreaks have been coming fast and furious lately. It’s strange that it’s such an exciting time to be a jailbreaker, when Apple has given us with iOS 8 less reason to jailbreak than ever before.
Source: Taig
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.
14 responses to “How to jailbreak iOS 8.1.2”
“…Apple has given us with iOS 8 less reason to jailbreak than ever before.’
Nice, short and concise article. Thanks. But the line above is simply not true. While iOS 8 brings a number of features not available in previous versions, in no way does it provide enough reason not to jailbreak, at least for those wanting more interesting and truly useful features. There are just too many extensions (tweaks), addons and apps to mention here. For anyone interested, however, I’m gad to elaborate.
True, Apple is doing a better job of incorporating new features, but jailbreaking opens up a whole new level of fun and usefulness to iPhones and iPads.
Totally agree with you, there will always be incentives to plenty for jailbreaking. I had felt like there was a lack of new innovative tweaks on the jb side prior to the iOS8 update, but now they just keep rolling out with new useful features. MyWi is always essential for us grandfathered unlimited data plans and adblocker is classic, but I’m really enjoying iTouchSecure for touchID use everywhere I need a password, and UpNext to cue songs in a running playlist like in iTunes. Your favorites?
Thanks for the reply. I’m probably not your best source of tweak info for iOS 8, as I’m still rocking iOS 6 on an iPhone 5 and iPad Mini. I prefer it, and it gives me all the extra functionality I could want. It’s funny how many jail breakers say to me, “Dude, you really need to be on iOS 7 or 8. You’re •really• missing out. You’ll be left behind!” My response is that I’m quite happy for the moment. When I get a new iPhone, I’ll be on iOS 8. But for now, things are snappy, good battery life and a much more pleasing interface than 7 or 8, at least to me. Whatever features I’m missing, I don’t care about.
But since you asked, the tweaks I’d hate to do without are are f.lux (display warming), AdBlocker, Aloud (announces any or everything), AltKeyboard (swipe up for alternate keys), Activator (taps and swipes anywhere for anything. The •best• tweak ever), Bulletin, CleverPin (control of when radios are active under almost any circumstance), TypeStatus (see who is texting in real time), Volume Mixer (control all volumes individually from NC or CC), Zephyr (complete control of app switching), and a bunch of lesser ones.
Sorry to say to you again, but yep you’re crazy to still be on iOS6 :) I had a 5 before just upgrading, and it was just as snappy running 7 & 8. I think lacking control center and especially app background refresh are reasons alone to upgrade.
Please update the download link. It redirects to a malicious webpage.
My only reason to jailbreak now is purely cosmetic. I miss messing with themes. Now that Im back on iOS with a 6+ I want to get into that again. Sadly I’ll have to wait for a OSX client.
Hmmm……..let’s see here:
Fast new jailbreak that comes out of nowhere…CHECK.
Download it from a malicious Chinese website…CHECK.
You must run it as Administrator…CHECK.
You must turn off Find iPhone…CHECK.
Is no one concerned about the combination of these things?
Torn the jailbreak in question came out around ios 8 release and just happens to work for both 8.1.1 as well as 8.1.2. I ran it on my 8.1.1 and it worked perfectly.
Hmmm….. let see the facts instead:
What appears to be a fast, new jailbreak, was actually one under development for quite a while, from known jail breakers… CHECK.
Download from a known safe website, no more malicious than Facebook, Amazon or your own, if you have one… CHECK.
You must run it as an Administrator, which is standard operation for nearly every piece of software on a Mac or PC that requires permission… CHECK.
You must turn off “Find My iPhone” as a safety measure •only• until the jailbreak is applied. .. CHECK.
Nope, no one I’ve heard of is concerned about the combination of these things. However, texting while driving, driving while •others• are texting, flying over disputed areas of the Ukraine, and eating too much sugar before bed… now •those• are things to be concerned about.
Cheers.
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I thought you were right as well digitaldumdum, but then I went to pull up the facts and there is a suspected trojan in taig file, but there is not one in evasi0n, pangu or any of the other most popular ones.
what the fuck???
iranian hacker ??????????
ostadpeyman Very intelligent !!
مهندسای ایرانیو عشقه!!!
ios اپل رو هک میکنن :)
استاد پیمان تو آخرشی !!!!!!!!!
i really wanted to jailbreak my iphone and i went to you article it really helped me. But details are lacking.
So i had to go to another site i finally found it on this site http://gadgetgoof.com/2014/12/successfully-jailbreak-untethered-ios-8-1-2-taig/
Really 8.1.2 became a headache for me. But atleast now i have a jailbreak one.