Many of Ian Beer’s previous work has led to a jailbreak tool being available for the latest release of iOS. However, before you get your hopes up, Ian Beer has currently only shared a vulnerability in iOS 14. This vulnerability needs to be turned into an exploit before a developer could use it to jailbreak iOS 14 – iOS 14.1. That’s a lot of work and it remains to be seen which developer or jailbreak team puts the effort into jailbreaking iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.
Another issue with the vulnerability is that it won’t work on iPhone XS and newer iOS devices that feature PAC (Pointer Authentication Codes) so even if someone does all the hard work of using this vulnerability to build an iOS 14 – iOS 14.2 jailbreak, it will only work on a limited set of older iPhones. And irrespective of all this, remember that this vulnerability only affects iOS 14.1 and iPadOS 14.1 while Apple has already released iOS 14.4 to the public, with iOS 14.5 coming next month.
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