iPhone New iPhone 5 buyers

[sonance]

Hello,

I'm thinking of buying a new iPhone 5 (in the US), I was wondering if I could reasonably expect to buy a new phone this weekend and still be able to jailbreak it without issues?

 

[dhlizard]

It depends on many factors, where you buy, model you buy, in stock or one that must be ordered.

No one could give anything more then an opinion.

 

[Han Solo 1]

A coworker of mine ordered one from the online Apple Store about a week after 6.1.2 came out, and that’s what it had on it when he took it out of the box. But yeah, who knows.

 

[Essenar]

I've heard of people telling the Apple employee to get them a phone that's been on the shelf for 2-3 weeks and to not update it. It's worked pretty consistently. Be honest with the employee. They're not going to be like "Oh we're adding your phone to a special database of jailbroken phones."

They don't care. They're getting credit for an unlocked sale. You have a better chance of getting a phone on the desired iOS version in an Apple store than you do at Best Buy or something.