Since Apple rolled out iOS 12 to the general public earlier this month, the jailbreak community has been dreaming about a brand new jailbreak tool for the newest software. Jailbreaking is now increasingly difficult within the last several years as Apple continues to tighten security on its software. But it’s not even close to impossible. Chinese security researcher Min Zheng aka Spark has shared details of an iOS 12 jailbreak on iPhone XS.
How did Pangu manage to jailbreak the iOS 12 on iPhone XS?
Min Zheng said in a tweet that Team Pangu had performed an iOS 12 jailbreak on iPhone XS. That’s quite surprising since the iPhone XS ‘s been around for just of a week. Zheng himself is a protection researcher at Alibaba. According to the tweet, Pangu achieved the iOS 12 jailbreak on iPhone XS by bypassing PAC mitigation on the A12 Bionic chipset. The A12 chip runs this year’s XS, XS Max, and iPhone XR. Zheng’s tweet also incorporates several screenshots showing root access on the iPhone XS, which confirms the jailbreak. The exact same iOS 12 jailbreak on iPhone XS Max must also be possible, at the least theoretically, since it runs exactly the same A12 Bionic processor. It’s possible that the Pangu team doesn’t yet have usage of the XS Max to show the jailbreak.Read More »iOS 12 Jailbreak, Really?