A group of hackers figured out how to jailbreak the 3rd generation iPad the day it was released, although the tools haven’t yet been released to the public. But that was a tethered jailbreak, which means you would have had to connect your iPad to a computer and run the software again every time you […]
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Nearly a million iPad 2, iPhone 4S devices jailbroken this weekend
This weekend the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team released tools to jailbreak the iPhone 4s and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1. And it turns out an awful lot of people were waiting to do just that. Just three days after the jailbreak utilities were first released, the iPhone Dev Team reports that nearly […]
Now you can jailbreak an iPad 2, iPhone 4S on Windows too
A day after the first tools for jailbreaking an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S were released for Mac users, the iPhone Dev Team has updated their utility to work with Windows. The process is a bit more involved since it relies on a command-line utility that walks you through the process one step at a […]
Jailbreak the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S with Absinthe
Chronic Dev Team has released a utility that can jailbreak the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S. It’s the first jailbreak utility available for devices with Apple’s dual-core A5 processor. Up until now all jailbreaking tools only worked on phones or tablets with the A4 processor or earlier chips. The new tool is called GreenPois0n Absinthe […]
Untethered jailbreak for iPad 2, iPhone 4S coming soon
Some of the top iOS hackers have announced that the great white whale of jailbreaking is about to go down: they’ve successfully jailbroken both the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. Update: The Chronic Dev Team has released GreenPois0n Absinthe, which you can now use to jailbreak the iPhone 4S or iPad 2. Apple’s two latest […]