The jailbreak tool checkra1n is being further developed quickly: The new version 0. 12. 0 Beta now supports iOS / iPadOS 14. 1 and the iOS version recently released by Apple 14. 2 . For the first time, checkra1n will also jailbreak the iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X and iPad Pro (with A 10 X chip, year of manufacture 2017) and iPad 6 under iOS 14. x enable like the Developer announced. The update also makes the tool, which is still only available for macOS and Linux, more reliable. We are still working on a Windows version.

Jailbreak also for iPhone 7, 8 and X It is possible to jailbreak devices with Apple’s A 10 – and A 11 – SoCs through an exploit for Apple’s Secure Enclave coprocessor. This step had to be taken because Apple had integrated a new protection function in iOS 14 in the independent Secure Enclave OS (SEPOS) operating system for the newer generations of devices in order to make the jailbreak more difficult, as the developers from checkra1n announced in advance.

Apple ultimately ensured less security with its anti-jailbreak measure, because this created the incentive to publish an exploit for the Secure Enclave, according to one of the hackers who previously discovered an unpatchable boot ROM exploit in Apple’s A processors from A5 to A 11 had found. So it was previously possible to always perform a jailbreak on these device series, regardless of the iOS version.

No iPhone password possible The jailbreak support for Apple devices with A 11 – Chip – iPhone 8 and iPhone X – is so far listed as “restricted”. A jailbreak of these iPhone generations is only possible if the user does without the code lock – i.e. leaves the iPhone practically open. Without a password, data remains accessible to third parties and certain functions such as Touch ID / Face ID and Apple Pay cannot be used.

(lbe)