iOS 9.2.1 Has Been Jailbroken!

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Posted January 7, 2016 at 6:21am by iClarified Staff

Luca Todesco (@qwertyoruiop) has successfully jailbroken iOS 9.2.1! Todesco posted a screenshot of Cydia running iOS 9.2.1 on his iPhone 6 to his Twitter account.

I lied. All Hail 화격자 리더. No releases.

(The text in Korean is supposed to translate to "Grate Leader")

While Todesco's tweet does mention "no releases," that does not necessarily mean that Todesco plans to keep the jailbreak for himself. He could pass his findings on to another team, which could then be used to create a complete jailbreak release. Todesco did in fact contribute to the first iOS 9 jailbreak that Pangu had released earlier this year, but Apple had patched that jailbreak with the release of iOS 9.1.

Todesco also jailbroke iOS 8.4.1 after iOS 9 was jailbroken; however there was no official GUI or tool created for that jailbreak. Instead, the source code was posted on Github.

To further prove the legitimacy of the screenshot, Todesco posted the Kernel dumps for iOS 9.2.1.

TaiG, the team behind several iOS jailbreaks, has also been rumored to have an iOS 9.2.1 jailbreak, but Todesco says he's unsure if the two jailbreaks share the same exploits.

Even though iOS 9.2.1 has been jailbroken, it is important to note that the firmware is still in beta (Apple just released the second beta earlier this week). If any jailbreak were to surface, it would likely be after an official iOS 9.2.1 release.

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tholaby - May 25, 2016 at 1:09am

9.2.1 jailbreak pleasssse!!!,,,

Vishal sehgal - March 23, 2016 at 3:56pm

When you will be releasing the the jailbreak officially.

Guest - January 27, 2016 at 3:08am

Obviously it's fake because you can't be on wifi when you have airplane mode on so I don't really believe it.

iProService - January 27, 2016 at 3:34am

Actually one can easily be on airplane mode and wifi simultaneously. Have you not ever connected to the Internet whilst a passenger in an aircraft?

Amelia - January 7, 2016 at 5:56pm

If u ain't sharing with us people stuck on 9.1 waiting to upgrade to see what jailbreak emerges first then we don't really care..give us a jailbreak we can use!!

Gavin - January 8, 2016 at 9:53am

Hey Amelia u might as well just upgrade to 9.2 because if a jailbreak was released, it would be for 9.2 and 9.2.1. Also 9.2 performs faster than 9.1 according to benchmark tests.

Austin Smith - January 7, 2016 at 1:52pm

Fake! Says iPhone 7 lmao.

Snob - January 7, 2016 at 2:03pm

And how do you think 6S is called in firmware department ?

stevenlacross - January 8, 2016 at 5:52am

It's the 7th model, 2nd subtype of that model

stevenlacross - January 8, 2016 at 5:53am

My iPhone 6s Plus says iPhone 8,2

‼️‼️ - January 7, 2016 at 10:59am

Isn't iOS 9.2.1 only beta version

Tru - January 7, 2016 at 9:40am

So should I upgrade to the 9.2.1 or should I stay with the 9.1?

teknogeek - January 7, 2016 at 9:00am

you spelled "Great" wrong ;)

teknogeek - January 7, 2016 at 9:02am

actually, i take that back. 화격자 리더 literally translates to Grate Leader (spelled like that) hahah

JuergenWest - January 7, 2016 at 6:30am

Can Apple now patch this prior to GM as a result of it being demonstrated in beta? (That would be a shame) What ever happened to the days when devs would keep these secret until public release?

Masterbuck - January 7, 2016 at 9:36am

Well he didn't say how he did it. And I'm guessing "it's still a beta" is the reason why

stevenlacross - January 8, 2016 at 5:50am

Apple can't tell how he did it, and can't patch it because it hasn't been released yet.

vanimox - January 7, 2016 at 6:28am

Well it's about time!