unc0ver

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unc0ver
Developer(s) pwn20wnd
sbingner
Initial release 13 Oct 2018 (2018-10-13)
Stable release v1.1.1 / 3 November 2018; 6 years ago
Operating system iOS
Available in English
Type Jailbreaking
Website The Reddit thread
The GitHub repo

unc0ver is a semi-untethered jailbreak for all devices running iOS 11.0 - 11.3.1. It also includes support for iOS 11.4 betas 1-3.

It uses the same exploits as Electra whilst providing more stability and features.

Release History

Version Date Changes
RC1 October 13, 2018
  • Initial release
RC2 October 14, 2018
  • Add the Dynastic repo by default
  • Fix a bug in firmware checker
RC3 October 14, 2018
  • Add a switch to manually enable restoring RootFS
  • Stop erasing user preferences when restoring RootFS
  • Fix bugs
RC4 October 14, 2018
  • Add a label to display the uptime
  • Add a label to display the app's version number
  • Spawn to the PATH
  • Stop bundling system fonts
RC5 October 14, 2018
  • Run videosubscriptionsd in the jailed state
  • Fix a bug in firmware and update checker
RC6 October 14, 2018
  • Start logging again
  • Improve update checker
  • Fix multi_path
RC7 October 17, 2018
  • Fix a bug in RootFS Restore and multi_path
RC8 October 18, 2018
  • Fix a bug in RootFS Remount
  • Add a work in progress warning for some firmwares
RC9 October 19, 2018
  • Fix a bug in RootFS Remount
  • Add even more detailed error messages
  • Add a switch to increase the memory limit to improve the stability
  • Improve the compatibility layer to work correctly with some tweaks that were specifically made for the other jailbreaks
v1 October 20, 2018
  • Fix a bug in RootFS Restore and Remount
  • Make the settings tab match with the rest of the UI
  • Fix bugs
v1.0.1 October 21, 2018
  • Disable the RootFS Restore for the unstable versions
v1.0.2 October 22, 2018
  • Enable and fix the RootFS Restore for all versions
v1.0.3 October 23, 2018
  • Fix the beta firmwares
v1.1 October 27, 2018
  • Automatically select the best exploit
  • Rewrite the versions checker
  • Improve assertion
  • Show the code which has failed in the error messages
  • Improve memory management
  • Optimize and clean up the code
  • Fix the Storage settings
  • Switch to a new technique to disable auto updates
  • Remove so much useless logging
  • Only set the boot-nonce if the switch is on without checking if it exists or not
  • Log offsets
  • Remove static sleeps to improve the speed
  • Fix series of bugs and leave no known bug
v1.1.1 November 3, 2018
  • Add a label to show the ECID
  • Add a button to open the source code
  • Improve auto layout
  • Fix various bugs within RootFS interaction, Icon cache refresher, Version checker, Exploit selector, jailbreak state detector and others