As Apple prepares to issue iOS 13.1, hopes remain high that a jailbreak version of the mobile OS is coming out soon. Yet no luck until now save for the piece of good news delivered at the start of the week by the unc0ver team, whose jailbreaking tool has been bumped up to 3.7.0b1.
To be clear, the jailbreak will unlock iOS devices on version 12.4 and can be installed as a complete jailbreak solution on Apple devices that make use of A12 and A12X processors. That would mean the latest unc0ver release will work on the iPhone XS, the iPhone XS Max, the iPhone XR, and the 2018 iPad Pro.
Sure, these iOS devices are now a generation-old but toying with them in a jailbroken state is still a joy, according to WCCFTech, adding that "the devices are still pretty fast, even faster than some 2019 Android devices."
However, it should be clear that the new unc0ver jailbreak will not work on handsets that made the jump to iOS 13 recently. If that is the case, best hurry to go back to iOS 12.4 as Apple will surely stop signing iOS 13 the moment version 13.1 is seeded. And that is happening real soon.
The latest jailbreak, according to Value Walk, was introduced by unc0ver team leader Pwn20wnd in a Twitter post, saying "unc0ver v3.7.0~b1 is NOW OUT with full-fledged A12-A12X support with Cydia and system-wide tweak injection."
In addition, Pwn20wnd indicated that the jailbreak build will deal with all the bugs that users have reported on the previous version.
For those interested and qualified, the solution is readily available here or through Pwn20wnd's GitHub repository that can be found here.
As for those asking if the unc0ver release is worth the trouble, testers have so far attested that the jailbreak, even in the beta version, behaves in an "extremely stable" fashion.
"Some even tweeted that the tool hasn't failed even once in the early days of testing, and Pwn20wned quickly fixed the few bugs that were encountered," the same report from Value Walk added.
As things stand now, it was clear unc0ver currently enjoys an edge over its jailbreaking rival, which is Team Electra. As of writing, the latter's jailbreak solution also works on devices with A12 and A12X under the hood, but the install can only be applied on iOS 12.0 up to version 12.1.2.
The leap made by unc0ver to iOS 12.4 is certainly a jailbreaking breakthrough. Still, it remains unclear if the same hacking group will surprise the jailbreak community and soon reveal a solution that would liberate Apple devices now running on iOS 13.
