Will upgrading to iOS 5 mean I will not be able to jailbreak in the future?

[kim319]

I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 with 4.x and I do not care about preserving my baseband.

I'd like to try out vanilla iOS 5 but I'd also like to jailbreak again when an untethered jailbreak is released.

Will upgrading to iOS 5 prevent me in any way from doing that?

 

[gentlefury]

There hasn't been an unjailbreakable iOS yet...why would that start now??

I'm pretty convinced that Apple fights jail breaking to get freebie security support. They patch a jailbreak hole, a new one comes out, they patch that one....so the jailbreak community is constantly showing apple their security vulnerabilities for free!

 

[Salukipilot4590]

I'm sure they'll jailbreak iOS5 untethered in no time...

Now with the delta updates etc it might be a little difficult for the average user to jailbreak.

 

[kim319]

Oh I had thought that maybe a iOS 5 jailbreak was only possible if you were on a lower version of iOS. I thought you had to jailbreak at the same time that you update to iOS 5 for some reason.

So just to be clear, assuming the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 will eventually come out, it shouldn't matter whether you are on jailbroken iOS 4.x or vanilla iOS 5?

 

[haruhiko]

the jailbreaking community seems to be breaking apart. No "limera1n" like exploit has been found for all the new devices (iPad 2 and iPhone 4S). The jailbreakme.com is a userland exploit, which is extremely easy for Apple to close it forever..... I think the outlook for untethered jailbreaking is very dim.