Wow! That was fast. The first beta release of Apple’s iOS 5 firmware hasn’t even been available for 24 hours yet, and it has already been successfully jailbroken.
In a message posted to his Twitter account, MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev-Team confirmed:
iOS5 jailbroken on [iPod touch 4G]… via limera1n + tethered boot..not too many surprises :)
He later added, according to 9to5 Mac, that the hack will be successful with the final release of iOS 5 when it goes public this Fall.
This is currently a tethered jailbreak, which means until the Dev-Team develops a successful untethered jailbreak, you’ll need to have your device hooked up to your Mac or PC via USB in order to boot it up. But with the impressive turnaround on the tethered jailbreak, it’s possible an untethered one will be ready by the time iOS 5 goes live.
Surely Apple will patch this before its final release?
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
18 responses to “iOS 5 Gets Jailbroken Less Than 24 Hours After Release”
Really? This is all you have to say about iOS 5? It’s been jailbroken? Big deal! Why is it that the Mac sites have become press agents for iPhone hackers?
Have you been reading the site? There’s been a lot more said about iOS than it’s been jailbroken.
Sigh…
Why do sites keep posting this?!
It’s not news, the limera1n exploit used for all current devices except the iPad 2 is a bootrom exploit, it can’t be fixed and will work on all iOS version ever to be released on the devices effected by the exploit…
nice! wonder if the cloud is going to complicate things slightly…
Somewhat surprising, as @i0nic:twitter was tweeting that the time of jailbreaking is over come iOS 5. However, it’s good to see that I won’t loose my tethering/My3G when this comes out :]
Hmmm…
Ok.
I’m relatively new to Jailbreaking…
I have to ask….. (I maybe am missing out here)
Should I jailobreak my iPhone? Why do I need to Jailbreak my phone ? – At what point do I jailbreak my I phone? – What’s the disdavantages ?
If you look at the rest of the site, you’ll see we have plenty more info on iOS 5.
See? There is always has jailbreak version of OS
Don’t be an idiot. Anyone who prefers a non-jailbroken phone is clearly a moron. All the Mac sites are interested in jailbreaking because it allows us to make the phone do things it SHOULD ALREADY DO. Get with it.