Security News > 2020 > May > New iOS Jailbreak Tool Works on iPhone Models iOS 11 to iOS 13.5

A hacker team has released a new method to jailbreak iPhones that they claim uses a zero-day exploit that allows them to jailbreak iPhones running iOS 11 through Apple's most recent version of its mobile operating system - iOS 13.5.

Calling it a "Big milestone for jailbreaking," one of its creators, a hacker called Pwn20wnd, heralded the new jailbreak release on Twitter, claiming it's the first zero-day jailbreak for the iPhone platform since iOS 8.

The jailbreak only works on iPhones running iOS 11 through iOS 13.5 and does not work on iOS versions 12.3 to 12.3.2 and 12.4.2 to 12.4.5.

The new jailbreak enables "Unrestricted storage access to jailbreak applications for sandbox backwards compatibility," while leaving security restrictions enabled for system and user applications in place, the team said.

Just because security researchers highly discourage the practice doesn't mean iOS developers and users will listen, given the enthusiasm with which they met the release of the new Unc0ver tool.

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