Today’s been beyond exciting for those of us who have been patiently and eagerly awaiting an iOS 6 Untethered Jailbreak. Not only did Apple release iOS 6.1, but MuscleNerd (the unofficial leader of the iPhone Dev Team and one of the four evad3rs) has also tweeted a wealth of amazing information pertaining to the Untethered Jailbreak.
Last week, it was revealed that MuscleNerd, planetbeing, pod2g and pimskek formed a new team, dubbed the evad3rs, to finish the development of an Untethered iOS 6+ Jailbreak. Until today, we were told by various influential members of the Jailbreaking world that an Untethered Jailbreak would be released sometime after Apple issues 6.1, which was a rather broad timeframe. Thankfully today, in a series to tweets, MuscleNerd added some much-needed clarity to their release schedule.
First, in a concise statement, MuscleNerd stated that those following fake evad3rs twitter accounts will miss out on the “excitement this week“. Additionally, in a response to a follower who inquired about domain names, MuscleNerd revealed that the team will launch their evad3rs.com site “pretty soon”.
I feel bad for those following fake @evad3rs_jb and liking fake FB facebook.com/evad3rs . They’re gonna miss the excitement this week.
— MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) January 28, 2013
@silentlistenerx we’re at simply @evad3rs and pretty soon something exciting at evad3rs.com
— MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) January 28, 2013
Minutes later, MuscleNerd confirmed that the Jailbreak will function on all iOS-based devices with 6.1 except the third-generation Apple TV, which means you can safely upgrade to iOS 6.1 if you haven’t already. Here’s a list of all iDevice that the forthcoming Jailbreak will support: the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, fourth-generation iPod touch, fifth-generation iPod touch, iPad 2, third-generation iPad, fourth-generation iPad, iPad mini and the second-generation Apple TV.
@unicornhacker yes, every other 6.1 device variation will be supported. All TWENTY-TWO of them (omg!). Plus atv2 if it’s out in time.
— MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) January 28, 2013
Awesome…as @evilpenguin_ pointed out, we’re seeing the final ATV2 6.1 today too.So ATV2 will be covered by the JB (not ATV3 tho).
— MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) January 28, 2013
For those of you who will inevitably ask for a specific release date, thankfully MuscleNerd’s covered that too. In a clever tweet, he inquired whether his followers knew that the Super Bowl is this Sunday and posed the question: “What will you be doing?”, while ccing the @evad3rs twitter handle and evad3rs.com.
Hey, did everyone know the Super Bowl is this Sunday? What will you be doing? /cc @evad3rs evad3rs.com
— MuscleNerd (@MuscleNerd) January 28, 2013
Finally, as a word of caution, both pimskeks and MuscleNerd urged users to upgrade to iOS 6.1 via iTunes instead of Apple’s over the air (OTA) upgrade feature. The iTunes restore method will, when the time comes, ensure that users can successfully Jailbreak without encountering issues.
If you people plan to upgrade to iOS 6.1 please don’t do an OTA upgrade. Please make a full restore using iTunes.
— Nikias Bassen (@pimskeks) January 28, 2013
With all of today’s incredible news, it’s safe to say that the Jailbreak community will see a much-needed influx of traffic. Stay tuned for complete coverage on the status of the iOS 6 and 6.1 Untethered Jailbreak for all iOS-based devices.
