PSA: Jailbreakers and aspiring jailbreakers should not install iOS 12.4

After a lengthy beta examination period, Apple finally released iOS 12.4 to the public on Mon for iPhones, iPads, together with iPod touches alike.

While it tin sometimes endure tempting to updates to the latest version of iOS to accept wages of the latest novel features, functioning improvements, together with safety patches, jailbreakers together with aspiring jailbreakers to endure volition desire to steer far away from installing today’s software update.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, iOS 12.4 incorporates a bevy of safety patches that brand jailbreaking this version of iOS significantly to a greater extent than challenging. Moreover, iOS 12.4 fixes all publicized jailbreak-centric exploits to date, which way neither Chimera nor unc0ver tin jailbreak it.

As always, nosotros recommend that the jailbreak community follows the groovy advice i time given past times unc0ver Pb developer Pwn20wnd: Stay on the lowest version possible.

This holds truthful whether you’re already jailbroken or if y'all aspire to jailbreak anytime soon; this is because it’s to a greater extent than probable that we’ll come across a wild exploit for iOS 12.3 than for the novel iOS 12.4 update.

Pwn20wnd reaffirmed this rattling wise advice shortly afterward iOS 12.4 launched this afternoon:

At the fourth dimension of this writing, unc0ver tin exclusively jailbreak upward to iOS 12.2 on all exactly A12(X) devices, spell Chimera tin currently jailbreak upward to iOS 12.3 (BETA) devices (but non the iOS 12.3 world release). It remains to endure seen if this mightiness alter whatsoever fourth dimension soon, together with and then nosotros propose sitting notwithstanding on whatever firmware you’re on together with avoiding all updates if y'all fancy jailbreaking.

What firmware are y'all currently using together with why? Let us know inwards the comments department below.

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