Since the launch of the iPhone 5 everyone has been waiting for news of a jailbreak and we have all realized that this is not going to be as easy as before. The iPhone 5 has a brand new chip and operating system and so far the Dev Team has been stumped. Planetbeing, a member of the Chronic Dev Team has however given iPhone 5 users a ray of hope. He says that he has almost figured out a full tethered jailbreak for the iPhone 5.
From this tethered iphone 5 jailbreak there will come an untethered iphone 5 jailbreak but the problem is, it can only be run from a developer account. Planetbeing said on Twitter that he upgraded the #failbreak with a kernel exploit so tweaks actually work in the iPhone 5. Almost a full tethered jailbreak but you need a dev account. There were a few retweets to this comment replied saying that he is still working on it. You can view all the tweets by following @planetbeing.
It may sound great and give iPhone 5 users some hope but sadly the words �need dev account� pose a catch. There are often unusable jailbreak techniques that Apple Developers can use but these jailbreaks cannot be rolled out to the masses. In the best case scenario this dev-only untethered jailbreak will open the door for untethered jailbreaks for everyone and allow Cydia developers to update their tweaks accordingly.
For those of you waiting for an iPhone 5 jailbreak, it means you will have to hold on a little longer. It is great to hear that the Dev Team are still working on bringing an iPhone 5 jailbreak solution to us but for now we just have to wait until it becomes available. As always we will keep you updated as things transpire.
