planetbeing – member of the iPhone Dev team has revealed on reddit that he has an untethered iOS 6.0.2 jailbreak running on iPhone 5.
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Hackers Already Have Untethered iOS 6.0.2 Jailbreak For iPhone 5
planetbeing – member of the iPhone Dev team has revealed on reddit that he has an untethered iOS 6.0.2 jailbreak running on iPhone 5.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Apple-Waze social mapping acquisition 'not happening'
Reports claiming that Apple could buy
social mapping service Waze have been rescinded, with the source of the
rumor now saying such a deal is "not happening."
Following up on its original report, TechCrunch said on Thursday
that multiple sources have since indicated that Apple will not buy
Waze. Author MG Siegler was reportedly told by multiple sources that
"there is no deal happening… now or anytime soon."
The Simple Error That Might Be the Source of the Do Not Disturb Bug
The bug in the automatic Do Not Disturb function in iOS 6 has caused equal amounts of frustration and chuckles (since Apple
aired a commercial highlighting the feature the day the bug hit us
all), but today some developers have shed some light on why the bug is
happening in the first place. And it all comes down to capital letters.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Do Not Disturb Bug Will Resolve Itself January 7th
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Oops: Apple Starts Airing Do Not Disturb Commercial During Today’s Do Not Disturb Glitch
We all know that commercials are made and booked months in advance, so today’s Apple commercial highlighting Do Not Disturb is just ironic bad timing.
Service for pirating iOS apps abruptly closes, cites 'stagnant' community
A prominent service for jailbroken iPhones
that served up stolen iOS App Store applications abruptly closed on
Sunday, marking a major victory for Apple in the war on piracy.
iOS 6′s “Do Not Disturb” Feature May Not Get Disabled Automatically On New Year’s Day
If you use “Do Not Disturb” schedule feature in iOS 6 then it may not get disabled automatically on New Year’s day.
MacRumors reports that a number of users who use “Do Not
Disturb” feature’s schedule functionality are reporting that the feature
is not getting disabled automatically.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Apple to Add Baidu as iOS Search Engine Option in China
Bloomberg reports
that Apple plans to offer Baidu - China's leading search engine as one
of the search engine options to iPhone users in China, as a part of its
greater strategy to increase its presence in the country. We had heard
about this a few months ago.
The announcement could be made as early as next week, at Apple's WWDC keynote
.
Google would still be the default
choice, but users would now have the option of choosing Baidu and
searching right from Mobile Safari's search bar. Presently, Chinese
users have to either visit Baidu's website or download an app to search
on an iPhone. It remains to be seen if Apple will add Baidu in iOS 5.x.x
or in iOS 6.
Apple's executives have, a number of
times, underscored the importance of China in Apple's future growth, and
this is Apple doing its bit to ensure that the iPhone remains a
compelling offering to Chinese customers. A number of Chinese web
services have been integrated in OS X Mountain Lion, and it'll be
interesting to see if Apple plans to integrate some of China's
social networks into iOS 6 as well. Twitter integration found in iOS 5,
and Facebook integration we might see in iOS 6 are useless in China, where both these services are blocked.
Baidu's market share in China dwarfs
that of Google (4 to 1), and with this integration in place Google's
position would further weaken. It's interesting to note though, that
just like Google, Baidu has its own mobile operating system (an Android fork) that it shops around to manufacturers.
Google had earlier voluntarily pulled out of China due to differences it had with the Chinese government's censorship policies. Apple on the other hand has maintained strong relations with Chinese government officials, since its entire production line as well as its future growth depends largely on this region.
Even if Apple's sole reason to add Baidu is to help out Chinese iPhone users, collectively, Apple's announcements during WWDC, including the mapping service, would be extremely detrimental to Google.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Apple to Step Up Rivalry With Google With Its Own Maps App
It has been widely speculated that Apple will launch an all-new Maps app in iOS 6 at WWDC next week.
Wall Street Journal has also
confirmed that Apple is indeed planning to replace the Maps app that
currently uses Google's mapping data with its own solution later this
year. WSJ has a good track record when it comes to Apple related rumors
WSJ reports:
Later this year,
Apple is planning to oust Google Maps as the preloaded, default maps
app from the iPhone and iPad and release a new mapping app that runs
Apple's own technology, according to current and former Apple employees.
Apple could preview the new software, which will be part of its next
mobile-operating system, as soon as next week at its annual developer
conference in San Francisco, one person familiar with the plans says.
Apple plans to encourage app developers to embed its maps inside their
applications like social-networking and search services.
WSJ reports that Apple's
decision to launch its own Maps app has a lot to do with Google's
refusal to initially include Street View in the maps app and later
refusing to add turn-by-turn navigation feature.
Google's free Maps Navigation app for
Android is considered as one of the unique selling points of
Android-based smartphones, so Google's reluctance to add features to the
iOS Maps app to protect its interest isn't very surprising. However,
due to this shortsighted approach, Google is now in danger of losing the
ad revenues it generates from iOS Maps app, which is a significant
portion of Google's mobile ad revenues. Apple is also likely to update
the SDK to ensure that third-party developers start using their mapping
solution instead of Google's mapping data.
WSJ reports that Apple has been quietly adding features to iOS to compete with Google's Maps app in the future. According to WSJ, Apple released its own geocoder in iOS 5 last fall.
Apple quietly
launched its geocoder last fall inside its latest iPhone software. It
has remained all but unnoticed outside a small circle of software pros.
Since Apple
released its own geocoder, every time iPhone users open its map app, it
is Apple's technology that translates their position, not Google's.
Software developers can also use a version of the Apple technology,
CLGeocoder, to build apps that let users, for instance, tell their
friends what neighborhood they are in or search for nearby eateries.
WSJ also reports that Apple is
looking to integrate the Maps app with other pre-installed iOS apps to
enhance the functionality of these apps.
For instance, if
Apple's iCalendar program knows that a person has a meeting across town
soon, and traffic is backing up, it might alert the person about road
conditions.
It remains to be seen if Apple will
offer features such as Street View, voice navigation etc in its Maps
app. And even if Apple replaces Google's map with its own solution, all
is not lost for Google, as it could still release the Maps Navigation
app in the App Store.
Interestingly, Google has schedule a 3D Maps event on Thursday, June 6th ahead of next week's WWDC. We won't be surprised if they announce the launch of Google Maps Navigation app for iPhone.
We've been eagerly waiting for the day when Google and Apple take
their rivalry to Maps app. It looks like that day is coming soon.
Monday, June 4, 2012
A Look at iOS UI Elements Over The Years
Next week at WWDC, Apple will unveil the sixth iteration of its mobile operating system, iOS. Although Apple has added a lot of features over the course of these five years, the layout of iOS has remained almost consistent.
That, however, doesn't mean that every
element in the user interface has remained exactly the same throughout.
Apple has tinkered around with the look and feel of several standard UI
elements over the years.
Rene Ritchie over at iMore writes
about the evolution in Apple's design principles, which has mostly been
introducing more and more skeumorphic interfaces into apps. Skeumorphic
design, in the digital world, is trying to make digital interfaces look
like objects from the real world. The wooden shelf in iBooks is a
pretty good example of skeumorphic design.
Skeumorphism wasn't a big part of the
first few versions iOS (called iPhone OS back then). With the exception
of the Notes app, which was inspired by the yellow legal pads, most of
Apple's apps followed a standard, purely digital design philosophy,
which Rene calls the "world of pinstripes." Pinstripes continue to
appear in many of Apple's in built apps even now.
It was the release of iOS 4
that unleashed Apple's skeumorphic design monster. Game Center debuted
with an interface made up of wooden navbars, tab bars, and a green felt
background. The whole set up looks like a felt gaming table.
Along with wooden bars, Apple also
introduced linen textures in iOS as a metaphor for elements that are in
the background, like the app switcher and folders.
If the wood in the Game Center app
wasn't enough, Apple's iBooks app also incorporated wooden textures in
the form of a faux bookshelf. The newly introduced iTunes U app also has a similar skeumorphic interface. (Apple wasn't the first one to come up with such an interface though.)
Continuing its use of textures, Apple
introduced Find my Friends and Reminders, both with a leather texture.
Find my Friends, with its stitched leather interface, tries to look like
the digital variant of an address book, while Reminders' black leather
interface apes old leather bound agendas, which very few iOS users would
have even heard of.
(Apple's designers even carried on a lot of these textures, and skeumorphic designs in general to Mac OS X Lion.)
Although it doesn't seem like Apple's
going to wash its hands off skeumorphic design in an instant, especially
with so many of its apps already following the design philosophy, it
appears that Apple is gearing to change the default color scheme of
standard iOS UI elements to silver from the blue we're all used to.
The silver color scheme is already being
used in a number of apps including most inbuilt iPad apps, and a number
of newly released Apple apps like iPhoto and the WWDC app.
If the rumors of Apple debuting a TV operating system are true, it'll be interesting to see what sort of design philosophy does Apple follow.
In his post over at iMore, Rene
has also created mockups of what each pattern would look like when
applied to the Settings app, which is the most common type of standard
interface found in iOS apps. Head over to this link to see the mockups.
Siri Finally Coming to iPad in iOS 6?
9to5Mac reports that Apple will finally bring Siri to iPad in iOS 6. According to 9to5Mac, it will be one of the major features for the iPad in iOS 6.
Siri - Apple's intelligent personal
assistant feature is currently available exclusively for iPhone 4S
users. Apple's new iPad that was introduced few months back,
surprisingly only got Siri's dictation feature.
9to5Mac provides the following details of how Sir will work on the iPad:
Unlike on the
iPhone 4S, Siri for iPad is not a full screen experience. This makes
sense given the device’s larger, 9.7-inch display. Siri on the iPad is
activated by a quick hold of the home button, just like on the iPhone
4S. The interface slides up from below the display with a clever
animation. Siri is built into the iPad as a small window on top of
whatever interface the user is currently interacting with. This Siri
window with rounded corners sits at the bottom center of the display, as
you can see in our mockup above. The Siri iPad interface takes very
little space over the iPad interface currently in use, and is designed
with the same linen texture as on the iPhone 4S. Siri for iPad also
works from the lock screen.
They've also created the following mockup based on information they've received from their trusted sources.
But don't get your hopes up, as 9to5Mac
is not sure if Siri will work on iPad 3, iPad 2 and iPad 1. Their
sources are currently tell them that it could be available
exclusively on the new iPad.
It is also rumored that iOS 6 will include an all-new Maps app with 3D mode, which is supposed to be quite incredible, some features from OS X Mountain Lion such as iCloud Tab support, Mail VIPs, "Do not Disturb" toggle for Notifications, and redesigned version of App Store, iTunes and iBookstore apps.
Apple is widely expected to give us a
preview of iOS 6 at next week's WWDC Keynote, followed by the launch of
the beta version. Apple is expected to release iOS 6 to the public only
in October along with the next generation iPhone.
iOS 6 to Get OS X Mountain Lion Features Such as iCloud Tabs Support, “Do Not Disturb” Toggle For Notifications, Mail VIPs
9to5Mac continue to leak more information about the features in iOS 6.
They've just reported that some of the
new features from OS X Mountain Lion such as iCloud Tabs support, Mail
VIPs, "Do Not Disturb" toggle for notifications will make their way to
iOS 6.
OS X Mountain Lion will
include a number of popular apps and features such as Messages, Notes,
Reminders, Game Center, Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter
integration and AirPlay Mirroring from iPad, so it is not surprisingly
to see some of the new features introduced in ninth and next major
release of OS X are coming to iOS 6.
Here's how some of the new OS X Mountain Lion features will work in iOS 6, according to Mark Guman of 9to5Mac:
Cloud Tabs:
iCloud Tabs is a
feature that allows iCloud users to view a list of tabs opened in the
Safari web browser across multiple iOS devices and Macs. Although
previously rumored, iCloud Tabs is not a feature – in its initial
implementation in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion – that syncs your entire
current web browser work across devices. When the iCloud Tabs button is
clicked on an iOS 6 device (or Mac), all the tabs opened on each device
are simply shown in a synchronized list. From here, users can quickly
pickup individual tabs that they were working on across their Apple
devices. The iCloud Tabs button on the iPhone and iPod touch is hidden
behind the Bookmarks toolbar.
Mail VIPs:
Like in Mountain
Lion, Mail VIPs in iOS 6 puts a star next to emails received from a
specified group of people. VIPs assigned to iCloud accounts will sync
with iCloud across iOS 6 iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, and OS X Mountain
Lion Macs. OS X Mountain Lion users have so-far praised the feature, as
many users find themselves constantly looking for email from a select
group of contacts.
Do Not Disturb toggle:
The Do Not Disturb toggle will allows users to block incoming alerts and banners. When we wrote about this feature coming to OS X Mountain, we were hoping that it comes to iOS 6. So good to know that it is also coming to iOS 6.
According to 9to5Mac, the Do Not Disturb toggle is stationed like the Airplane Mode button in the Settings app as seen in the mockup below.
With Apple adding such useful toggles in the Settings, we wonder when they will introduce SBSettings-like
functionality so that we can access them quickly from any app without
having to go through the hassle of exiting the current app, launching
the Settings app and then enabling or disabling the toggle.
Let us know what you think about the
possibility of features such as iCloud Tabs support, Mail VIPs, "Do Not
Disturb" toggle for notifications coming to iOS 6. What's on your iOS 6
wish list?
More Details About Facebook Integration in iOS 6
Few days back, TechCrunch reported that Facebook will be finally deeply integrated into iOS 6. Apple's CEO Tim Cook had hinted at the possibility of integrating with Facebook during AllThingsD's D10 Conference.
9to5Mac has got access to some more information about how the Facebook integration will work in iOS 6.
Mark Guman of 9to5Mac writes:
According to
sources familiar with the Facebook integration into iOS 6, the
integration will be very similar to Twitter’s integration that launched
with iOS 5. The integration’s biggest presence will be in the iOS Photos
application. Like you are able to send photos to Twitter from the
Photos application, you will be able to post photos to Facebook. A
single sign-on section for all Facebook connected applications is
present in the iOS 6 system settings application. Like with Twitter, a
new “social sheet,” as some people familiar with the matter call it,
will appear for an accompanying status message.
Mockup of Facebook sharing in iPhone Photos app (Image Credit - 9to5Mac)
According to 9to5Mac, not
surprisingly, users will also be able to like apps either by using a
"Like" button in the built-in App Store on their iOS devices.
Besides content
sharing, Apple is also relying on Facebook for a big new social change
for the built-in App Store: a feature called “App Liking.”
Discoverability has always been a major downside of the Apple mobile
apps market with hundreds-of-thousands of software apps, but Apple will
by relying on the world’s largest social network to help fix that
problem. Inside individual application pages on the iPad, iPhone, and
iPod touch App Store will be a standard Facebook “Like” button. If a
user is logged into Facebook via iOS Settings, these app “Likes” will be
sent to their Facebook Timelines. Accompanying status messages will
also be an option.
We're not sure how Apple will fix the
discoverability issues in the App Store with the "App Liking" feature.
While Apple could give a higher rank to apps that are shared are
Facebook, it is something that can be easily manipulated by developers.
Things should be more clear next week,
as Apple is widely expected to give us a preview of iOS 6 at next week's
WWDC Keynote, followed by the launch of the beta version. Apple is
expected to release iOS 6 to the public only in October along with the
next generation iPhone.
According to recent rumors, iOS 6 will include an all-new Maps app with 3D mode, which is supposed to be quite incredible and redesigned version of App Store, iTunes and iBookstore apps.
Via: iphonehacks
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Rumor: Next-Gen iPhone to Get Broadcom BCM4334 Chip With Wi-Fi Direct For AirDrop
We've some more information about the next generation iPhone (iPhone5,1), courtesy folks at 9to5Mac who have been digging through the beta version of iOS 6 running on a prototype of the next iPhone.
9to5Mac reports that Apple
could use Broadcom BCM4334 single-chip dual-band combo chip in the next
generation iPhone, which is a follow up to BCM4330 which is used in the new iPad and iPhone 4S.
According to AnandTech, this new chip will need half the power for Wi-Fi :
BCM4334 which is the follow-up part to BCM4330 that we’ve seen in a bunch
of devices. BCM4334 changes from a 65nm process to 40nm LP, which
itself offers a power profile reduction. The change isn’t a simple die
shrink either, Broadcom says it has worked on and refined the existing
BCM4330 design and reduced power a further 40-50% and dramatically
reduced standby power by 3 orders of magnitude. I asked Broadcom to give
me a realistic estimate of power consumption – BCM4330 in full Rx mode
consumes around 68mA, BCM4334 consumes 36mA at the same voltage, just to
give an example of the reduction. Air interfaces don’t change between
BCM4330 and BCM4334.
As 9to5Mac
points out, the power savings would be helpful to offset the increase
in power consumption due to the taller 4-inch display and 4G LTE radios.
In addition to the power savings, the
new Broadcom chip also has dual band Wi-Fi which allows content
streaming via technologies such as Wi-Fi Display and Wi-Fi Direct. 9to5Mac
speculates that while Apple is unlikely to use Wi-Fi Display over its
own AirPlay protocol, Apple could use Wi-Fi Direct to bring OS X Lion's
adhoc file sharing protocol to iOS 6.
It certainly
gives Apple a reason to bump the Wifi chip up to this more expensive
dual mode version that was just announced in late February. Wifi Direct
is also used in more and more printers as well, but its main purpose is
making wireless file sharing extremely easy, as Google does in its
Galaxy Nexus devices.
With Apple’s
easy-to-understand interface, an iOS AirDrop feature could make sharing
between Macs and iOS devices and between iOS devices (or dare we say to
Android devices?) beyond simple.
Apple had introduced AirDrop feature in OS X Lion
last year. The feature provides a really easy way to share files
between supported, Wi-Fi enabled Macs, without having to connect through
the local Wi-Fi network.
But this is still quite speculative as
we've seen that Apple has chosen not to use the full capabilities of
Broadcom's Wi-Fi chip.
9to5Mac had previously reported that the
next generation iPhone, which is widely expected to be released in
October will be powered by a variant of the A5 chip like the new iPad and include 1GB RAM.
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iOS 6 to Get Redesigned iTunes Store, App Store And iBookstore
As we get closer to the WWDC 2012 Keynote,
where Apple is widely expected to give us a preview of iOS 6, more
details about the upcoming major iOS software update seems to be leaking
out.
So far we've heard that iOS 6 will include an all-new Maps app with an incredible 3D-mode and Facebook integration.
According to
sources familiar with Apple’s upcoming iOS 6 mobile software offering,
the company’s three major`digital stores will see design overhauls. The
overhauls are said to be major and they focus on improved interactivity
when making purchases in iTunes, the App Store, and the iBookstore.
Social is a big piece of the store overhauls, and Facebook integration
is being tested in the iTunes Store portion, at least.
But 9to5Mac also notes that the redesigned apps won't offer improved discoverability. You may remember that Apple had acquired Chomp - an app search engine
earlier in the year. We were expecting Apple to use Chomp's technology
to improve App Store search and recommendations. But according to 9to5Mac's
source, it may not happen in iOS 6, which would be a pity as
discoverability of apps is quite a pain with more than 600,000 apps in
the App Store.
iOS 6 Feature: Facebook Integration?
TechCrunch reports that Facebook will be integrated into iOS 6, just like Twitter was integrated into iOS 5.
Apple and Facebook have been in talks
for quite sometime. In fact, according to some reports, Apple had fully
integrated Facebook into iOS 4 back in 2010, and was ready to launch the
mobile-social fusion when API negotiations broke down.
It looked like Apple and Facebook had patched things up as Tim Cook hinted at the possibility of Facebook integration coming to iOS 6 earlier in the week at AllThingsD's D10 conference. When he was asked "What is going on between you and Facebook?" by Mossberg, Tim Cook had this to say:
For us, we want
to provide customers simple and elegant ways to do the things they want
to do. Facebook has hundreds of millions of customers. So, anyone that
has an iPhone or iPad, we want them to have the best experience with
Facebook on those platforms.
So stay tuned.
MG Siegler of TechCrunch reports:
It’s important
to note that Apple being Apple, something could change in the next week
and a half (see again: Facebook/Ping). But as of right now, Facebook is a
go in iOS “Sundance”. One thing still being hammered out according to
our sources is exactly how sharing will work. Sharing is the other big
part of the iOS/Twitter integration, and will be important for
iOS/Facebook integration as well. But Facebook is significantly more
complicated than Twitter in that there are all kinds of permissions for
what you can post where and who can see what. And Open Graph adds
another layer of complexity to all of this.
It is not clear how the Facebook integration will work, but users should
be able to post status updates, share photos and videos from Safari,
Photos, Camera, YouTube, and Maps. It remains to be seen how Apple and
Facebook handle the complexity introduced by privacy controls etc.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Apple Gearing up to Switch to Silver Color Scheme in iOS 6?
The apps that come pre-installed with
your iOS device haven't changed much in both the look and functionality
department, since the launch of the original iPhone in 2007.
But Apple may be gearing up to make at least some subtle changes in iOS 6 such as changing the color scheme used in the pre-installed apps.
Earlier today, Boy Genius Reports posted a mockup of
the new Maps app, which could be one of the major new features of iOS
6. According to their trusted source, Apple won't be ditching just
Google for a revamped Maps app with 3D mode, but they might also be ditching the traditional blue color scheme seen across their core apps for silver.
Cult of Mac noticed this change in the new WWDC 2012 app
that was released earlier today. Apple has replaced the traditional
blue bar along the top and the black bar at the bottom with silver bars.
We didn’t read
much into these claims until we stumbled across the Cupertino
company’s new WWDC 2012 app. Unlike last year’s app — which featured a
black bar along the bottom and a blue bar along the top, like
traditional iPhone apps — this one sports silver bars and buttons both
top and bottom. And I must say, it looks a lot simpler and a lot
cleaner.
The WWDC 2012 app is not the only app that sports the silver color scheme. iPhoto app
released back in March and a number of pre-installed iPad apps such
as YouTube, Maps and Mail app sport the silver color scheme.
So it is possible that Apple will transition to the silver color scheme for all the pre-installed iPhone apps in iOS 6.
What do you think about the silver color scheme for iOS apps? Which one do you prefer? Let us know in the comments below.
Mockup of iOS 6 Maps App in 3D Mode
It is widely speculated that iOS 6 will feature a new Maps application with an 3D mode.
BGR reports that they've got
some blurry photos of the new Maps application from a trusted source.
Based on those photos, they have created mockups of the new Maps
application, which gives a glimpse of what the app may look like.
BGR reports:
BGR has obtained
exclusive information and photos of parts of Apple’s new Maps app from a
trusted source, and the app features a refreshed user interface
including a brand new navigation bar. This bar, we’re told, is silver
instead of blue. Since the current Maps app follows the standard blue
iOS color scheme, we think it’s possible Apple might shift toward a
silver color theme in iOS 6 like on the iPad.
The iPhone
version of Maps has a floating locate me button (it sounds very similar
to Android’s Google Maps app) in the bottom left corner. To access 3D
mode, which will make use of Apple’s C3 Technologies acquisition, you
have to peel back the lower right corner of Maps just like the current
version and enable 3D mode. Once enabled, you can switch in and out of
3D mode by tapping a 3D icon in the lower left corner.
Via: iphonehacks
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Dev Team Releases CLI Tool With iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak Support
pod2g and the Chronic Dev team released the eagerly awaited Absinthe 2.0 - the iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV yesterday.
But it looks like they may have some
more tricks up their sleeve to stay ahead of the cat and mouse game with
Apple. In an interview with Softpedia at the Hack in the Box conference yesterday, Cyril aka pod2g revealed that they exploits for iOS 6 jailbreak.
Here's some experts from that interview:
“We won't give
up on jailbreaking iOS devices because this is too important for us and
we already have a part of the jailbreak for iOS 6 and we will be ready
right on time for it,”
So how does the development process of an iOS jailbreak look like?
“We will not
give you the exact recipe, but we have other exploits that we won't
release at any time. This is our secret. It allows us to inject stuff
into new devices and to start dumping the memory. When we have the
dumps, we look at different ways of finding the vulnerability,” he
explained.
“Each member of
the team works differently and this usually leads to finding
vulnerabilities quickly. We find them in one month or two and then we
start exploiting them. We start this process only when the final version
of the system is released,” Cyril added.
“That’s why we
always have a delay after the release to do a jailbreak. Because we need
to be assured that what we do will work for sure, that they don't fix
it in the beta 3 or beta 4, so we start only when the release is here.”
This means that pod2g and the Chronic
Dev team haven't used all the exploits they found for the iOS 5.1.1
untethered jailbreak released yesterday. While it may be too premature
to say that the remaining vulnerabilitie/s will work with iOS 6, the
hackers seem to be quite confident that they would be useful in future
iOS software updates.
It will be interesting to see if Apple
releases a new iOS software update before iOS 6, which fixes the
vulnerabilities used in the Absinthe 2.0 jailbreak or it will wait until
iOS 6.
With more than 4 months to go for the
release of iOS 6, we won't be surprised if Apple releases iOS 5.2 to add
support for more languages and local search support in additional
countries for Siri and some more enhancements before it releases the
next major iOS software update in October.
From a jailbreaking point of view, if
you follow the golden rule of not updating to the latest iOS software
update until jailbreak tools for it are released and saving SHSH blobs for iOS 5.1.1 using TinyUmbrella so you can downgrade if you accidentally upgrade to it, then you should be just fine.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Apple Has Already Started Testing iOS 6.0
While we wait eagerly for Apple to release iOS 5.1, we have just received news that Apple has already started testing iOS 6.0 - Apple's next generation mobile operating system (not very surprising).
Ars Technica
reports that they've observed iPads running iOS 6.0 originating from
Apple's headquarters visiting their website, based on the browser user
agents in their server logs.
Last year, Apple gave a preview of iOS 5
and also released the beta version of the iOS 5 to developers during
the 2011 WWDC in June and released it to the public in October. So we
expect Apple to follow a similar schedule this year as well.
However, Ars Technica
speculates that Apple could give us a preview of iOS 6.0 at the iPad 3
media event. We won't bet on it as we expect Apple to preview iOS 5.1 at
next week's media event.
Apple's next generation iPad - iPad 3 that will be unveiled at the media event on March 7th
is expected to come pre-installed with iOS 5.1 and Apple is also
expected to release iOS 5.1 to the public on or around March 9th.
Ars Technica has also observed device
with a screen resolution of 2048x1536 visiting their website, which is
the same resolution rumored for iPad 3's Retina Display.
What's on your iOS 6.0 wish list?
