We’re still waiting on the holy grail, an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak for all iPhones, iPads and iPod touches out there, but it looks likes the odd of seeing one soon just doubled. Speaking up online today, iPhone hacker extraordinaire MuscleNerd confirmed a version of iPhone jailbreak tool Redsn0w was coming to both Windows and Mac.
MuscleNerd took to Twitter in the early hours of this morning to confirm that upcoming redsn0w iOS 5 jailbreak “release makes both TinyUmbrella and Cydia blob saves useful for 5.0+ (1st verifies, then stitches)”. When asked, he confirmed the software would be made available for Windows and Mac OS X machines.
In English, blob saving lets you unlock your iPhone, or even downgrade it should you choose to, something Apple appeared to have blocked hackers from doing. More to the point, MuscleNerd is talking about an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak (Tethered jailbreaks require the iPhone to be plugged in whenever its restarted, making it impractical for daily use).
As you’d expect, MuscleNerd isn’t talking exact release dates, but he did recently points out that it took four months to jailbreak the iPad 2. If he keeps up the pace, that could mean we’ll see the Redsn0w iOS 5 jailbreak come January – and then there’s always the iPhone Dev Team, who we revealed are also working on an untethered iOS 5 jailbreak. Fingers crossed.
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