14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has announced the very first preview of iOS 14 only a few days ago, with developers enrolled in the company’s testing program allowed to give it a try and try out all the improvements that were revealed at the WWDC.
And now here’s something that the Cupertino-based tech giant didn’t see coming: a jailbreak for iOS 14 is already in the works, and the chances are it’d be ready faster than the company expected it.
checkra1n developer Sam Bingner recently tweeted a screenshot showing Cydia running on iOS 14, suggesting that the work on a jailbreak for the new iPhone operating system progresses well and the release could happen rather sooner than later.
Certainly, there are many things that the checkra1n team has to deal with before rolling out the new jailbreak, but the screenshot published this week shows that despite Apple’s efforts, the jailbreak world is here to stay on Apple’s flagship device.
iOS 14 coming to all users in the fall
What will be interesting to see is whether this new jailbreak lands while iOS 14 is still in beta, thus giving Apple the chance to fix it before the final version of the operating system launches in the fall, or the dev team waits for the stable build to go live in September and only then release it.
According to Apple’s typical release schedule, the new iOS 14 is projected to go live in September. The iPhone 6s and newer will all support the new operating system, but it remains to be seen if the same thing will apply to this jailbreak too.
For now, the good news is that iPhone jailbreaks aren’t dead, and despite Apple’s efforts to block people from unlocking its devices, the skilled developers out there always find a way to make the whole thing possible.