18 Million Devices Were Jailbroken Before Apple Blocked Evasi0n With iOS 6.1.3

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Posted March 20, 2013 at 9:37pm by Shalom Levytam

Saurik reveals that about 18 million devices were jailbroken before Apple released iOS 6.1.3 to block the evasi0n jailbreak, reports Forbes.

In the six weeks since evasi0n was released, however, close to 18 million devices have already been jailbroken, according to data from Jay Freeman, the administrator of the Cydia app store for jailbroken devices. He says he’s counted 18.2 million unique devices running iOS 6 visiting Cydia, including 13.8 million iPhones, 3.4 million iPads, and 1.1 million iPod Touches. Those numbers vastly exceed previous jailbreaks such as Jailbreakme 3, a popular hacking tool for iOS released in the summer of 2011 that was used on around 2 million devices, according to a count at the time by creator Nicholas Allegra.

Notably, planetbeing (David Wang) says that at least one bug remains unpatched. The Evad3rs also a backup supply of 'secret bugs' that are being saved for future jailbreaks. According to the hacker, it's likely the team won't release another jailbreak for some time. "We’ll probably wait until the next major release," says Wang.

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18 Million Devices Were Jailbroken Before Apple Blocked Evasi0n With iOS 6.1.3

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Attitude - May 9, 2013 at 3:18pm

i'm having an ipad 3 which i'll like to jailbreak any good advice for me, and what application should i use in doing this jailbreak redsnow or evasion. Pls help

U. - May 2, 2013 at 11:12pm

I bought my iPod Touch 5 from eBay and it was already updated to 6.1.3. FML.

Dathomir - March 21, 2013 at 9:31am

I'm on 6.1 at the moment - is there any way to get to 6.1.2?

iCrunch - March 21, 2013 at 10:10am

No. Why didn't you upgrade when you had the chance? In any case, 6.1 and 6.1.2 are kind of the same thing, so you're good to go.

iCrunch - March 21, 2013 at 6:45am

At least half that will lose their jailbreak by updating to iOS 6.1.3.

Duh! - March 21, 2013 at 2:53am

If you were previously on a lower iOS and then was dumb enough to break rule #1 of jail breaking (which is to NEVER UPDATE until a JB can be verified for new OS) then you can still do a custom restore to an older version. Download the custom firmware for you device and just follow the many tutorials from this site.

BioBro007 - March 21, 2013 at 12:37am

I downloaded iOS 6.1.3 is there seriously nothing I can do?

unixes - March 21, 2013 at 8:15am

From 6.1.3 nothing you can do... But the good part is that you have a good updated map of Japan :)

GrayGhost - March 21, 2013 at 12:25am

Now how many devices were updated to iOS 6.1.3

justabrake - March 20, 2013 at 11:40pm

imagine if you got a dollar for each one

Jonathan - March 20, 2013 at 10:48pm

Well, I'm 2 out of 18 million.

budsal - March 20, 2013 at 10:22pm

18 Million sounds big. how many ios devices are currently in use?

ace - March 20, 2013 at 11:16pm

Its 18 million world wide remember, so not very big at all!!

Tk. - March 21, 2013 at 6:54pm

There should be around 400 Million devices Out there, which makes a JB Rate of 4.5%. Not too Bad...