As you probably already know, iOS 7 launched last week and there are more than 200 million devices already using this new firmware. We are not here to talk to you about iOS 7 today or how many people are using it, we are here to talk about the progress being made with a jailbreak for this firmware.
We have been tracking the progress of the upcoming untethered jailbreak over the last few weeks and we are delighted to report that the people behind this project have released a video demonstrating this untethered jailbreak in action. This jailbreak is still a little buggy but progress is being made and iH8sn0w has also shed some additional light on the iOS, 6.1.3/6.1.4 A5+ jailbreak status.
On his blog, iH8sn0w confirms that Apple has now officially closed the ability for users to downgrade back to iOS 6.1.x from iOS 7. The good news is that it has been confirmed that everything that is required for the iOS 6.1.3/6.1.4 untethered jailbreak on A5+ devices is in place. The problem being faced at the moment is fixing internal bugs that simply cannot be shipped with a public jailbreak. This was confirmed by Winocm who is apparently the main person behind this jailbreak.
The current issues facing the team involve native apps on the device managing to delete themselves as well as problems surrounding the activation of iMessage and FaceTime.
That's great news for those running iOS 6.1.4 or 6.1.3 but what about iOS 7? Well we know that the Evad3rs team is currently exploring iOS 7 exploits and we also know that Cydia, MobileSubstrate and WinterBoard are all broken on the latest firmware so a jailbreak is a good bit off yet.
Attention is also being paid to the latest version of iTunes which was released with iOS 7. It seems that iTunes 11.1 completely kills custom firmware restores on iOS 7 for A4 and below devices. IH8sn0w is currently working on a fix that can be implemented into future versions of Sn0wbreeze and iFaith.
So there you have it, all iOS 6.1.x users will have a jailbreak very soon but the iOS 7 jailbreak is still being worked on. We will of course keep you updated with any information we receive.