iOS 10 jailbreak release date, news, rumors: Apple fortifies iOS 10's security features; JB tool release may take a while?

Miguel Salonga Friday, September 30, 2016

A woman holds up the iPhone 6 Plus at the Apple Store at Tokyo's Omotesando shopping district Sept. 19, 2014. | Reuters/Yuya Shino

The full version of the iOS 10 has been released earlier this month, but many iPhone and iPad users are already expecting that the known hackers today will be able to release a jailbreak software soon for Apple's latest iOS version. The jailbreak tool is used by the iPhone and iPad users to bypass the operating system's security measures and freely personalize the settings of their devices. The last hacker group to release a working jailbreak software is Pangu, but even the group or anyone else who have been successful in jailbreaking the iOS 10 beta has not spoken yet regarding the release of an iOS 10 jailbreak.

As reported by The Bitbag, the mobile phone hackers today may have been encountering some difficulties to successfully jailbreak the most recent version of the iOS 10. Since the full version of the new iOS rolled out in the second week of September, there have been a few minor updates done on the operating system. While the intention of Apple in doing these minor updates are not fully known, there is a possibility that the Cupertino-based tech company is slowly strengthening the security features of the iOS 10. With this, no other hackers were able to release a working iOS 10 jailbreak tool up to now.

So far, Apple has already rolled out the iOS 10.0.1, 10.0.2, and 10.0.3 updates over the past few weeks. The hackers must be working harder to study the latest changes made by Apple with these minor updates in order to develop a working jailbreak software. On the other hand, Game N Guide reported that a known Italian hacker, Luca Todesco, has successfully jailbroken the iOS 10 running in an iPhone 7, thus raising confidence that a working jailbreak tool will be released to the public in the near future. Todesco himself has said that he only wants to show the weakness of the latest iOS version and has no plans to release his iOS exploits in public.

Perhaps the iOS users must patiently wait for updates as the people working on the jailbreak must make sure that their tool will work. There is no assurance that Apple will not release additional iOS 10 updates in the near future that will make the job harder for the hacker groups such as Pangu and TaiG.