(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The prospect of an iOS 6 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 5 is definitely looking hopeful again. Within the last couple of weeks, two stars of the jailbreaking community, former Chronic Dev Team member Cyril Cattiaux aka @pod2g, and iPhone Dev team member David Wang aka @planetbeing have reemerged, tweeting and sharing information about their progress on an iOS 6 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 5, 4S and other non-jailbroken devices.


In a recent landmark Reddit admission, we saw @planetbeing informing the community that an iOS 6.0.2 untethered jailbreak was indeed working on his iPhone 5 and that a release was in the future though the exact ETA is yet to be released.

"Yeah, I'm not really sure what all the doom and gloom is about. The fact is, I have an untethered iOS 6.0.2 JB running on my iPhone 5 right now. The reasons it's not released are because:

1.) Releasing it would burn an exploit we want to save for ourselves so we can always get in to look at new firmware and help JB in the future

2.) iOS 6.1 is coming very soon and will likely break a small part of it anyway, there's no point in sacrificing the many bugs it won't break. Anyway, where there are 4+ bugs (that it took to get this to work), there's gotta be one or two more so while jailbreaking is getting harder, reports of its death are highly exaggerated."

With hopes renewed, the jailbreak community was indeed briefly satisfied despite the over three month wait to jailbreak iOS 6 on iPhone 5 and 4S. Many within the community voiced their thanks to @planetbeing for his update as it was just enough to keep their hopes alive.

As one Redditor posted last Friday,

"I think the best thing is actually hearing that work is going on behind the scenes. Too often I think many of the JB Devs believe that we want detailed status updates, but I know for me that isn't the case at all. Even just something that states 'Hey we're still working over here. Still exploring.'"

Now that rumors have emerged that the iOS 6.1 GM or goldenmaster will be soon released to developers, the hope is, an iOS 6, or 6.1 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 5 and other non-jailbroken devices won't be too much further away.


I cant wait to finally Jailbreak my iPhone 5, How about you guys?

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^^ I know right, I have an iPhone 5 6.0.1 iOS and there's no jailbreak still I think..

You Think right, but i hope there is one soon, im still on 6.0 on my iphone 5

I know comrade, it sucks to not have jailbreak for iPhone 5 devices on 6.0+ yet :/

I can't wait to jailbreak my iPhone 5 because I need those for tethering because Verizon doesn't offer tethering for anyone with data/text only plan.

Aww, over here in Germany, you can do this even you dont have a Plan, Pre paid.. Lol.