Check out the latest news and tutorials about checkm8, a hardware-based bootrom exploit for A7-A11 iPhones and iPads that can’t be patched by Apple, making it a popular choice for jailbreak tools.
If you’ve been paying any attention to the jailbreak community lately, then you’d be pretty hard-pressed to have never heard of palera1n. It's a pretty big deal these days.
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The palera1n team this week released version 1.4.1 of its checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for A9-A11 chip-equipped handsets running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.x, all while one team member demonstrated the tool’s upcoming and previously-teased GUI (graphical user interface).
As expected, following the announcement that tfp0 (kernel task port) had been achieved on an iOS 16.1.1 device, the palera1n team has officially added support for iOS & iPadOS 16 to its checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak tool in version 1.4.0.
If after trying the palera1n jailbreak you’ve decided that it isn’t right for you, then you might be wondering what you can do to remove it from your device.
The palera1n team appears to be looking into the possibility of adding iOS & iPadOS 16 support to its checkm8 bootrom exploit-based palera1n jailbreak tool for A9-A11 devices.
The palera1n jailbreak, albeit intended for developers more-so than the general public, remains one of the only publicly available jailbreaks supporting iOS & iPadOS 15.x. But as more users turn to the newer iOS & iPadOS 16 for the newer features, it only seems appropriate to mention that palera1n co-developer @itsnebulalol has teased successful tweak injection and kernel memory read and write capabilities on a physical iOS 16 device.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak out there for A9-A11 devices running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-16.x called palera1n. While palera1n is primarily intended for developers, it also has the strongest foothold in the iOS & iPadOS 15 community out of any jailbreak as of this moment.
Note: The legacy palera1n jailbreak is now deprecated. Use the newer palera1n-c tool instead.
The developer-focused palera1n jailbreak tool for checkm8-compatible devices (A9-A11) running iOS & iPadOS 15.x looks like it could soon be expanding its existing tweak injection support far beyond the current scope of iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.3.1.
Sakura Development team member @dora2ios, perhaps best known for their part in developing the kok3shi jailbreak, has released a new work-in-progress developer-centric jailbreak tool called ayakurume for iOS 15 that utilizes the same checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit as the venerable checkra1n jailbreak tool.
Sakura Development team member @dora2ios, previously known for their effort in creating the kok3shi jailbreak for 64-bit iOS 9.3.2-9.3.5 devices, Tweeted attention-grabbing screenshots this week of a jailbroken iPhone running iOS 16.1.
With all the exciting news circulating in the jailbreak community recently, it would have been easy to miss a silent update to the developer-centric palera1n checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for iOS 15.x, which appears to have received a recent and unannounced upgrade to version 1.2.0.