iOS 7 soon to be released, updating not advised for jailbreakers

Sep 9, 2013 11:14 GMT  ·  By

Developer Winocm, who is responsible for an untethered jailbreak on iOS 6.1.3, has published an image on Twitter suggesting that iOS 6.1.4 has been jailbroken on an iPhone 5.

A screenshot depicting Cydia on a 4-inch display (therefore an A6 chip) indicates that Wincocm has finally achieved an untethered iOS 6.1.4 jailbreak, just weeks away from the official release of Apple’s iOS 7.

Jailbreak fans may want to refrain from updating their firmware, as the jailbreak could be made public any minute now. Any new software updates released by Apple afterwards will surely break the hack.

Jailbreaking is nowhere near as popular as it used to be prior to the release of iOS 6, as Apple continues to fulfill demand for various features that were previously exclusive to people who hacked their phones.

One such example is the upcoming Control Center in iOS 7, which some would say is directly copied from jailbreak tweaks.