PSA: Tw3lve jailbreak for iOS 12 now open source, but we still don’t recommend using it

Given simply how slow it is to lose your jailbreak eligibility these days amid Apple’s rapid software updates, it goes without maxim that jailbreakers should endure cautious regarding the software they run on their handset(s).

A shady jailbreak tool for iOS 12.0-12.1.2 called Tw3lve ominously materialized from sparse air on /r/jailbreak over the weekend, as well as the postal service was apace removed past times board moderation later on it was discovered to endure a blatant re-create of Pwn20wnd’s open-source unc0ver jailbreak tool amongst a custom GUI behaving every bit smoke as well as mirrors to the full general public.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Tw3lve was released every bit a closed-source tool (otherwise it would receive got revealed the tool’s truthful nature upon release), but it didn’t accept long for Pwn20wnd as well as other prominent jailbreak developers to reverse-engineer the disgraced jailbreak tool as well as acquire that it was a re-create as well as glue of an existing tool amongst a unlike face.

Update: Tw3lve projection Pb @Chr0nicT reached out to us to allow us know that the former version of the jailbreak tool was pulled as well as that an open-source version is straightaway beingness re-written amongst proprietary code. The source code volition endure available here.

Despite the apparent alter of heart, nosotros notwithstanding don’t experience comfortable recommending Tw3lve to our readers because of its origins. That said, nosotros advise using Pwn20wnd’s unc0ver jailbreak tool instead, or at to the lowest degree practicing caution if y'all select to create otherwise.

We receive got been asked ‘remove’ or ‘edit’ this article, as well as we’ve opted for the latter because nosotros squall back our readers deserve to know nigh the tool’s history.

Pwn20wnd took to Twitter amongst these comments regarding the Tw3lve jailbreak tool early on Lord's Day morning:

Armed amongst this novel knowledge, nosotros advise anyone who might’ve downloaded the Tw3lve jailbreak tool to delete it rather than deploying it. Running the tool may impose a direct chances to your device’s jailbreak eligibility inwards the future.

Instead, users should role Pwn20wnd’s unc0ver jailbreak tool if they squall back to pwn their iOS 12.0-12.1.2 handsets. The jailbreak tool is tried as well as truthful as well as supports all devices apart from the A12(X) variety, something that Pwn20wnd intends to alter presently when Cydia Substrate is officially updated amongst back upwardly for those devices.

The unc0ver jailbreak tool was updated simply this weekend to version 3.0.0 beta 49 amongst fixes for all known bugs to date. Pwn20wnd says the tool volition come upwardly out of beta later on a amount A12(X) jailbreak is achieved. As usual, y'all tin download unc0ver from Pwn20wnd’s GitHub repository.

In the future, if something looks every bit good practiced to endure true, then
it belike is. We’ll proceed to monitor the province of affairs as well as all future
jailbreak tool releases to ensure our readers brand informed decisions nigh the
software they run.

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jailbreak tool? Discuss inwards the comments department below.

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