It’s been a ridiculous week following WWDC 2024, chock-full of announcements about iOS & iPadOS 18. Even the jailbreak community has suddenly come alive, pushing updates to jailbreak tools and attempting to see whether palera1n can be used to jailbreak certain checkm8-vulnerable devices post-update to iPadOS 18 and tvOS 18.
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Follow along as we cover everything related to palera1n, a jailbreak that was developed primarily for developers using the checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit for devices with A9-A11 chips.
Hackers show off jailbroken checkm8-vulnerable iPad and Apple TV running iPadOS 18 & tvOS 18 respectively
A lot of people are wondering if we’ll ever see a jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 18, and while we don’t have a crystal ball clear enough to give you a definitive answer, we will say that there’s at least a chance the iPad (7th generation) gets a jailbreak thanks to being susceptible to the checkm8 hardware-based bootrom exploit and being compatible with iPadOS 18 – the last checkm8-vulnerable iPhone or iPad meeting both of those criteria.
At least one checkm8-vulnerable iPad still supported by iPadOS 18
Apple on Monday announced iOS & iPadOS 18 during the company’s WWDC 2024 Keynote, showcasing a plethora of new features for just about every platform the brand sells.
Rootful palera1n ending support for Substitute tweak injection in next update, switching to ElleKit advised
If you’re using palera1n, the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for arm64 devices (iPhone X and earlier) running iOS & iPadOS 15.0 and later, then you may want to know about some important changes that are coming in a future update.
The palera1n jailbreak gets a TUI, offering a more approachable user interface than the regular CLI
The palera1n checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak, unlike the checkra1n jailbreak before it, has long been a command line interface (CLI)-based jailbreak tool. This means you must use Terminal to use it, which can be off-putting for those uncomfortable with running Terminal commands.
The palera1n jailbreak is coming to the Apple TV
The palera1n team, known for its creation of the palera1n semi-tethered checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool for arm64 devices (the iPhone X and older) took to X (formerly Twitter) early Sunday morning to share an exciting announcement.
Palera1n jailbreak updated to v2.0.0 beta 9.1 to fix app crashing on iPadOS 17.2-17.3.1
The palera1n checkm8 bootrom exploit-based rootless jailbreak for arm64 (A8-A11) chip-equipped handsets on iOS & iPadOS 15.x-16.x and iPadOS 17.x received an important update last weekend to version 2.0.0 beta 9. But since that update dropped, at least one issue has been identified.
Checkm8-based palera1n jailbreak for arm64 devices updated to v2.0.0 beta 9 with hot fixes & more…
The palera1n checkm8 bootrom exploit-based rootless semi-tethered jailbreak tool for arm64 (A8-A11) devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.0-17.x received a rare update late last night, officially bringing the project up to version 2.0.0 beta 9.
ElleKit tweak injection updated to v1.1.2 to fix problem with palera1n & meowbrek2 devices
ElleKit is the tweak injection method used by modern jailbreaks such as Dopamine and palera1n, but if you depend at all on the meowbrek2 re-jailbreaking utility and semi-untethered tool for arm64 devices running iOS & iPadOS 15.x, then you might want to read up on the latest update.
Meowbrek2 updated to v1.1.7-beta to allow use on iOS 15.8.1
iOS developer @dora2ios surprised all of us Sunday afternoon with another update to meowbrek2, a re-jailbreaking utility for palera1n rootless for arm64 devices (iPhone X and older running iOS & iPadOS 15.x.
Meowbrek2 kfd-based re-jailbreaking utility for palera1n updated to version 1.1.6-beta
Users of the meowbrek2 re-jailbreaking utility for the palera1n semi-tethered jailbreak tool for checkm8 devices may be excited to learn that an updated version of the tool, coined version 1.1.6 beta, was released this Sunday evening.
Meowbrek2 re-jailbreaking utility for palera1n updated to v1.1.5-beta
Users of the meowbrek2 re-jailbreaking utility for A9-A11 devices running the palera1n checkm8-based jailbreak might be excited to learn that there is now an updated version of it available to the masses.